We live
in a warm climate so as we arrive at our destination, say the mall, I open the cars front and back door and let him pee on the tire, nobody sees and it's just a little pee.
There's been a lot of discussion of the fate of the polar bear
in a warming climate so I thought it worth adding a few more insights from scientists studying this remarkable animal's past and assessing its future.
Not exact matches
Warm currents of the Meditererranian Sea and an average of 300 days of sunshine a year determine the mild
climate that lets chiles — called peperoncini
in Italy — grow
so well here.
Despite the
warm - up, I was still
in the mood for something that would transport me to another
climate,
so I made coconut cashew granola that had a toasty and slightly tropical vibe.
I see
so many recipes featuring coconut oil that seem to be created by people who live
in warm climates, because there's never any mention of rock hard coconut oil.
Luckily I live
in a place where the
climate is
warm and ideal for cherries,
so cherries are grown almost
in every backyard here.
We found the soft, «minky» texture absolutely luscious, but it was a bit too
warm for the hottest summer days,
so if you live
in a hot
climate you might want to plan on an alternative.
They're not great for
warmer temperatures, and are more likely to shrink
in the wash,
so they're not generally the best all - around option for milder
climates.
So, if you live
in an area with
warm climate, a cold mist humidifier will be more ideal, and if you live
in a colder
climate, then a
warm mist humidifier will be a better choice.
The functionality with 4 positions is fantastic and the mesh means it's
so good
in warm climates.
Your child will keep cool and well - circulated
in hotter
climates,
so the Mark II is the perfect summer - time stroller and for going to places
in warmer climates like Disney World.
Even though we do not know the
climate variations
in detail
so far back, we know that there were abrupt
climate shifts
in the
warm climate back then,» points out Peter Ditlevsen.
If you live
in a humid
climate, you know that humidity makes
warm temperatures even worse
so this is a really awesome feature.
Driven by stronger winds resulting from
climate change, ocean waters
in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully,
so that relatively
warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.
Professor Julian Murton, from the University of Sussex, who led on the study, said: «As our
climate warms mountain rock walls are becoming more unstable —
so working out how to predict rock falls could prove crucial
in areas where people go climbing and skiing.
So this effect could either be the result of natural variability
in Earth's
climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus
warming sea - surface temperatures.
So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shif
So if you think of going
in [a]
warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back
in time and
so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shif
so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant
in terms of change
in the distribution of vegetation, change
in the kind of
climate zones
in certain areas, wind patterns can change,
so where rainfall happens is going to shif
so where rainfall happens is going to shift.
Global
warming has been going on for
so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average
in 1985
in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal»
climate, scientists said.
Short - lived
climate pollutants are
so called because even though they
warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain
in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain
in the atmosphere for a century or more.
«
So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic
warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of
climate change
in polar regions for a U.N. report on global
warming this year.
With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or
in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the
warmest year on record, though the
climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced
in the colder months,
so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.
The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent
warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of
climate sensitivity that considers only the
so - called fast feedbacks
in the
climate system, such as changes
in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.
BLAST FROM THE PAST Three million years ago, Earth's
climate was
so warm that the High Arctic supported forests (illustrated)
in which camels and other animals roamed.
«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global
warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions
in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing
so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and
Climate Initiative.
In the Arctic the boom and bust cycles of lemmings have been evolving as the
climate warms,
so predators such as hawks and owls that once considered red knots calories of last resort now find them increasingly appetizing as the lemmings grow scarce.
So this change
in upper atmospheric behavior can be considered part of the «fingerprint» of the expected global
warming signal
in the
climate system.»
In the Arctic, the cold water has
so far prevented harmful low latitude species from establishing themselves but this will change as the
climate becomes
warmer.
«As they did
so, they passed through distinctly different
climate states —
warm in the north, and cold
in the south.
In climate science, for example, where we don't need an elaborate
climate model to understand the basic physics and chemistry of greenhouse gases,
so at some level the fact that increased CO2
warms the planet is a consequence of very basic physics and chemistry.
«Even
in this current
warming climate, some mountains are
so high that the temperatures are still below freezing, and the
warming ocean may provide more precipitation to drive some of the glaciers to advance,» Batbaatar said.
Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast
Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a
Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average,
so that the 2 - degrees Celsius
warming target adopted
in the recent Paris Agreement on
climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a
climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.
The
climate scientists calculated various scenarios with the models, including a very high -
warming scenario
in which no measures were taken to reduce CO2 emissions,
so that CO2 concentrations
in the atmosphere rise unabated to 2100.
«These tropical species have evolved
in warm regions,
so there may be an expectation that
climate change won't affect them,» Pau said.
But the period of time over which the team analysed the long - term trend
in warming was the past 50 years,
in which this oscillation hasn't changed significantly —
so almost all the
warming looks to have been the result of anthropogenic
climate change.
«Evolutionary theory predicts morphological changes
in response to
climate warming, but there is very little evidence for it
so far
in mammals,» Millien says.
Precipitation is rich
in oxygen - 18,
so generally the ratio of oxygen - 18 to oxygen - 16 should be higher
in warmer, wetter
climates than
in the colder north.
Ocean circulation drives the movement of
warm and cold waters around the world,
so it is essential to storing and regulating heat and plays a key role
in Earth's temperature and
climate.
The team's results «help us understand why Earth didn't
warm as much as expected by
climate models
in the past decade or
so.»
If the
climate warms so much that crops no longer thrive
in their traditional settings, farming of some crops may be able to shift to adjacent areas, but others may not.
Previous studies suggest the
climate in the region during this time was relatively
warm and wet,
so the moisture needed to seep through the overlying rocks to create the stalagmites would have been abundant, Verheyden says.
The researchers believe the retreat — and the move to higher elevations — may reflect the fact that bumble bees evolved
in cooler
climates than many other insects that haven't yet lost ground, and
so are especially sensitive to
warming temperatures.
As can be seen your graph, our
climate models make a wide range of predictions (perhaps 0.5 - 5 degC, a 10-fold uncertainty) about how much «committed
warming» will occur
in the future under any stabilization scenario,
so we don't seem to have a decent understanding of these processes.
This is an attitude that some sincere
climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their
so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system
in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global
warming describes.
«There's
so much organic carbon trapped
in permafrost,» she said, «and we don't really know what's going to happen as the
climate warms.»
According to the Southeast Regional
Climate Center, several locations
in the Northern Plains, Northern Rockies, and West Coast are having their
warmest November on record
so far.
Likewise, we find that natural variability, this last decade
warming on the low end compared previous decades, the lack of coverage
in the Arctic and
so on may have played a role
in Lewis» underestimating transient
climate sensitivity:
Even
so, we maintain that the early Mars
climate cycle hypothesis remains consistent with observable geologic evidence and could have played at least a partial role
in providing
warm conditions on early Mars.
I think you and others could do more to change attitudes
in the U.S. on global
warming by joining forces
in putting pressure on NOAA administrators and NWS supervisors to educate the 5,500 meteorologists
in 120 National Weather Service offices
so the NWS scientists can help other government people and other meteorologists who enter people's private living rooms better understand
climate change.
So if you're looking for
warming, you won't find it
in Central Europe — despite all the fake
climate news you might be hearing.
So, while the oceans are a heat sink
in the short - term,
warmer oceans are a source of
climate gases
in the long - term.