Sentences with phrase «impact of a warming»

«A modest reduction in flows at Hinckley right now will alleviate any further threat from current low levels and the potential impact of the warm - weather months to come.

The scientists» work, published in September in Current Biology, reveals the impact of the warming predicted to occur over the next 50 years.

But he added that conservatives also were bending the truth by insisting there was no relationship between global conflict and the impacts of warming.

Other changes unrelated to the climate stand to exacerbate the impacts of warmer and less predictable weather.

The report notes that research about the impacts of warming on transportation is scarce.

The negative impacts of warmer winters may be less evident in Nordic countries than in places like Alaska, where people and animals like polar bears and seals are more dependent on the presence of sea ice, according to Serreze.

The projected impacts of a warming atmosphere and oceans on the Earth's hydrological cycle — dry regions likely becoming drier, while wet ones become more wet — will likely exacerbate this already dire situation.

The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire impacts of a warming global climate, which many scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.

That's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.

The report from the Commission on Health and Climate Change lays out the health impacts of a warming world and offers policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse.

«Direct impact of warming on physiology is a fundamental and direct consequence of warming, but it's really only one foundation stone for the response of the ecosystem,» Deutsch says.

The state is seeing increased flooding, sharpening risk of drought and other impacts of warming on its agricultural industry.

Moreover, the impacts of that warming, including sea level rise, drought, floods and other extreme weather, could hit earlier and harder than many models project, said study co-author John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Failure to recognize the impact of warming on cod contributed to overfishing.

The clearest impact of warming on drought is when higher temperatures cause more evaporation and increase water demand, as has happened with this drought.

Governments agreed last year in the landmark Paris accord to limit the amount of warming this century to «well below» 2 °C (3.6 °F) from preindustrial times to curb the impacts of that warming.

Peter, being an alarmist is a responsible role for any who see, experience, suffer from, research or educate themselves about the direct impacts of a warming world.

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.

Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate - policy - averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of a warming climate.

Two years ago, he and graduate student Ethan David Coffel projected the impact of warming at four U.S. airports.

The end of the year also saw international negotiators agree to a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions to keep that temperature from rising beyond 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels to limit the adverse impacts of warming, such as melting glaciers, rising sea levels and potentially more extreme weather.

Impacts of warming and elevated CO2 on a semi-arid grassland are non-additive, shift with precipitation, and reverse over time.

Of note today: An evaluation of multi-site human microbiome temporal stability over six months; The impacts of 1,000 non-antibiotic drugs on the in vitro gut microbiome; Caspase - 1 might modulate the relationship between stress, the gut microbiome, inflammation and depressive - like behaviour in mice; And the impact of warming on the Antarctic soil microbiome

Many reefs, from islands in the South Pacific to the Florida Keys, have felt the impacts of the warmer oceans.

This may demonstrate that the impact of warming on precipitation patterns was localized, with different regions showing a range of effects.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

A scientific review article cited by both IPCC and Stern is T.P. Barnett, J.C. Adam and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.

Fourteen research teams studying the impacts of warming on the Arctic Ocean have issued independent projections of how the sea ice will behave this summer, and 11 of them foresee an ice retreat at least as extraordinary as last year's or even more dramatic.

Today and Wednesday a group of authors from across the different working groups — examining the basics of climate science, the impacts of warming and options for policy responses — are meeting at Jasper Ridge in northern California to come up with an approach for «consistent evaluation of uncertainties and risks.»

A further potential climate change connection, which Kevin overlooks, is the impact of a warmer world on the strength of the prevailing winds, and their increase in strength with height.

Thought that folks might be interested in an article in the Economist on the impacts of warming.

Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.

I certainly have seen references to accelerated warming in the press, and I do think what they really have in mind is something like «accelerated impacts of warming,» which would be a fairer description of what has been coming out in the scientific literature.

The latest comes as basic flaws have been exposed in a panel finding on thawing Asian glaciers that, while buried in the back matter of the panel's 2007 report on impacts of warming, had become a prime talking point among campaigners calling for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

This happened with his own work on the impact of warming on hurricanes.

On Monday, several senior authors involved in summarizing the 2007 findings on impacts of warming — Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton, and Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford * — acknowledged this was not the panel's finest hour, but stood by the admittedly imperfect process and overarching conclusions.

In this as in many aspects of the climate - change problem, the distribution of possible impacts of a warming world is skewed, with a long tail on the costly side.

Does it state what the impact of the warming will be on other factors such as rainfall?

Some of the least understood impacts of warming are the possible connections to health problems, like patterns of tropical disease and the frequency of smoggy days, as the National Academies of Science concluded in 2001.

The stunning documentary «Chasing Ice» conveys the drama and mystery in all that melting, and the impact of warmer sea water on the areas where Greenland's glaciers meet the sea.

Even if NOAA did not have weather observing stations across the length and breadth of the United States the impacts of the warming are unmistakable.

They review the work of over 30,000 scientific papers on climate science, the impacts of warming and how its effects can be avoided.

Much more on this in the near future, but this year is a poster child for the impact of a warm AMO in the US.

Governments have approved plans for a new UN report to explore the impacts of warming of 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels at a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.

A 2005 study, Impacts of a Warming Arctic, concluded that the Arctic is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

Two years later, the call went out for impacts of warming greater than 2 °C.

Impacts of warm water on Antarctic ice shelf stability through basal channel formation.

The uneven impact of the warming «could mean a massive restructuring of the global economy,» says Solomon Hsiang, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley, one of the researchers who have painstakingly documented the historical impact of temperature.

The discussion of projected impacts of warming is wide open to selective quotation because it frequently starts with a broad statement of a tendency and then admits that it is impossible to say how large the effect will be.

Their cost estimates don't consider the benefits of slower climate change, such as improved health, and the reduction in impacts of warming.