Sentences with phrase «in a warming world»

As both evaporation rates and heavy rainfall events increase in a warming world, this lends itself to bigger variations in precipitation.
That is to be expected in a warmer world, the authors wrote.
A look at the countries that are most and least vulnerable to climate change in a warming world.
Extremely heavy precipitation was projected to become even more extreme in a warmer world.
The IPCC most - likely future projected moderate acceleration of sea - level rise in a warming world, but still a slow rate of change compared to the fastest rates we can envision.
Should we focus on adapting to living in a warmer world?
While the near - term rate of sea - level rise remains uncertain, the long - term picture of rising seas in a warming world is crystal clear.
Well, the short answer is that cold winters still happen even in a warmed world, but that doesn't mean it's cold everywhere.
But clouds need to release only 1 to 3 percent more water in a warmer world.
Can we just ignore them and work with global temperatures, or are there actually larger deviations from the norm at the regional level in a warming world?
In 2050, the world has to feed nine billion people in a warmer world with lower yields.
The new findings are part of a surge of research suggesting that communities need to revisit their vulnerability to extreme weather in a warming world.
This acts as what engineers call «negative feedback» and would explain the paradox of more extensive southern ocean ice in a warming world.
It signals the urgent need for a full stress - testing of the global food system in a warming world.
As the time frame used to predict weather did not change, the researchers concluded that weather would likely remain as predictable in a warmer world as it is today.
The idea that tropical storms such as hurricanes will be bigger and more frequent in a warmer world is reinforced by an Australian computer study.
The storm fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.
Future research topics may explore how the distribution of ocean barrier layers around the world may affect storms in a warmer world.
GPS and seismic measurements together provide a means to answer critical questions about ice sheet behavior in a warming world.
But these are the kind of extreme events set to become more common in a warming world.
The trees that are able to cope in a warmer world by absorbing more carbon dioxide are at higher risk of death in multiple ways.
Then they considered the hypothetical fate of corals in a warming world.
Better planning — through investments in infrastructure and public health strategies — can help communities become more resilient in a warming world.
Now a new analysis has looked in more detail at health risks that could be amplified in a warming world and finds the same profound disconnect.
Likewise, fish and wildlife will need healthy, free - flowing rivers more than ever if they are to survive in a warming world.
Scientists generally agree that climate change will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events, but the jury is still out on how tornadoes will fare in a warming world.
Not all invasive plants will thrive in a warmer world.
In a warmer world there is more evaporation (and precipitation) and more water is in the air.
The same issue has played out in discussions of hurricane trends in a warming world.
Humans remain mainly focused on the here and now, and the worst outcomes in a warming world remain someday or somewhere.
This post argues that ethics requires acknowledging the links between tornadoes and climate change despite scientific uncertainties about increased frequency and intensity of tornadoes in a warming world.
Thus although droughts will always happen naturally, as studies have shown, they'll become more intense in a warmer world.
The kinds of extreme weather events that would be expected to occur more often in a warming world are indeed increasing.
Even more important, we might be able to anticipate what will happen to trees in a warming world.
These findings are of particular relevance in a warming world.
It offers researchers a kind of crystal ball on what can happen to fish in a warmer world.
A 2007 study found that polar bears are not threatened in a warming world.
The difference points to the resilience that will be needed in a warming world.
Thus, managing fisheries in a warming world is going to be increasingly problematic.
This raises the question of whether conventional experimental protocols will be relevant in a warmer world.
Even though we will continue to see cold outbreaks in a warming world, the trend in the vast majority of the cities analyzed shows that these extreme cold nights are happening less often.
Yet their most useful function in a warming world is to absorb carbon and store it.
There are hints that the park could have extra conservation value in a warming world.
It seems that humidity should rise with more evaporation in a warming world.
Understanding how those ice sheets will react in a warming world is critical, if we are understand the risks being taken with our greenhouse gas emissions.
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