More on the important role that black carbon soot plays
in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased as the ratio of black carbon to sulphate rose.
More on the high, but heretofore largely neglected, role that soot plays
in increasing global warming: Research from Stanford University shows that soot is second only to carbon dioxide in its warming contribution, and that reducing it may be the only way we can stop Arctic sea ice melting.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met this week to discuss the latest on climate change and issued a report, adding that it should serve as a «wake - up call» to governments and society about the role of humans play
in increasing global warming.
Not exact matches
Neither the World Economic Forum
in its
Global Risk Report nor the International Monetary Fund
in its World Economic Outlook have recognized the potential that
increased warming in the Arctic poses, the authors note.
While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to
global warming, it does fit the pattern of
increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise
in sea temperature.
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• We are
increasing the amount of carbon dioxide
in the air, causing changing climatic conditions and
global warming.
And again: The IPCC claimed that there was an
increase in extreme weather conditions as a result of human - induced
global warming.
Increasing appetite for meat and population growth
in developing countries mean
global meat consumption is on track to
increase 75 % by 2050, which would make it virtually impossible to keep
global warming below the internationally - agreed limit of 2C.
Let the smiles and giggles of your children, albeit behind a mask made from toxic rubber made
in a factory
in China, that
increased global warming just to be delivered to your house via Target.
Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least
in part the result of
global warming — a steady
increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by
increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.
Economy and health care issues have
increased in search prominence, while
global warming is not as hot
In 2005, Bloomberg Businessweek placed George Pataki among the 20 individuals it commended for their personal efforts to combat
global warming, citing his Greenhouse Gas Task Force and efforts to
increase New York's usage of renewable energies.
Still, the prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over
global warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would
increase the need for more fracked gas.
The people remain far ahead of our political and economic leaders
in wanting action to protect us from the
increasing threat presented by
global warming.
An
increase in snowfall has long been predicted as a result of
global warming.
«Recent studies found that scale insect populations
increase on oak and maple trees
in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also
increase with
global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
One aerosol, black carbon, is of
increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change
in the far north, which is
warming twice as fast as the
global average.
The finding suggests that an
increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by
global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.
As a result, more of human emissions would remain
in the atmosphere,
increasing the greenhouse effect that contributes to
global warming and alters Earth's climate.
For a start, observational records are now roughly five years longer, and the
global temperature
increase over this period has been largely consistent with IPCC projections of greenhouse gas — driven
warming made
in previous reports dating back to 1990.
At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), founded
in 1987 by computer pioneer David Packard, veteran scientist Bruce Robison isn't ready to make a primary - level link between jelly
increases and
global warming, but he's certainly intrigued by the «second -, third -, or eighth - level connections.»
Excessive swings
in the world's climate patterns include the potential of
increasing global warming and sea level rise.
As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes
in the introduction, «The inexorable
increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and
global warming, and providing an
increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.
Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future
warming, the researchers found that an
increase of average
global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario
in which carbon emissions flatten globally
in the next few decades and then decline — would
increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.
Global warming is causing not only a general
increase in temperatures, but also an
increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.
«The fact that we don't see the presently understood meteorological signature of
global warming in changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent
increases are not due to a
warming climate, or a
warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.
But climate scientists worry that
global warming will endanger vineyards, as the
increase in very hot days takes a toll on delicate grapes.
A new
global assessment reveals that
increases in leaf abundance are causing boreal areas to
warm and arid regions to cool.
In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Oxford Martin School have investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting
global warming to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5 °C.»
In particular, the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the
increased warming of the
global climate system is more certain than ever.
A substantial portion of the planet is greening
in response to
increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition,
global warming and land use change.
There are three main time scales to consider when it comes to
warming: annual temperature variation from factors like
warming in the Pacific Ocean during El Niño years, decadal temperature swings and long - term temperature
increases from
global warming.
He also models the
global warming that would occur if concentrations of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere were to be doubled (due to
increases in carbon dioxide and methane emissions from dragons and the excessive use of wildfire).
The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by
increasing temperatures
in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the
global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.
Changes
in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes
in solar activity can not explain
global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been
increasing since 1985 even as the world has
warmed — the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate - cooling clouds.
«The study was the first to specifically isolate CO2's effect from that of other
global -
warming agents and to find quantitatively that chemical and meteorological changes due to CO2 itself
increase mortality due to
increased ozone, particles and carcinogens
in the air.»
Land - use changes over the past 250 years
in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature
increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the
warming produced by
global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.
They reported
in the January 2010 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters that
global warming does
increase flood risk significantly, and that large floods have occurred more frequently
in recent years than
in the past.
The clock now reads six minutes from that end - of - days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday
in New York City, citing an
increased awareness and interest
in stopping key threats to humanity (
in particular nuclear conflict and
global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago.
«If the winds continue to
increase as a result of
global warming, then we will continue to see
increased energy
in eddies and jets that will have significant implications for the ability of the Southern Ocean to store carbon dioxide and heat,» said Dr Hogg.
As
global leaders gather
in Paris seeking a much - anticipated agreement to keep
global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nations face
increasing pressure to reduce emissions and contribute to decarbonizing the
global economy.
This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution
in some areas, coral bleaching caused by
global warming, and
increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.
In a report released last week, the institute predicts that
global warming over the next 80 years could lead to the destruction of fisheries,
increased storm damage, and the displacement of millions of people.
Because air temperature significantly alters atmospheric dynamics, which
in turn affects moisture transport, scientists speculate that this
increase of high altitude moisture may be tied to
global warming.
Scientists already point to
increased severity of hurricanes on the East Coast, major Midwest floods, and shrinking glaciers
in the West as proof of
global warming's onset.
China's stated aim of improving air quality over the coming years would change this radiative forcing, leading to a rather counter-intuitive consequence; the
increase in China's contribution to
global warming.
«
Global warming and climate change...
increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen
in an earlier paper with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.
The record shows, for example, that
in a world unmarred by humans,
global warming actually
increases biodiversity.
The models showed a general
increase in extreme rainfall but the
global warming signal was not strong enough yet to rise above the expected natural variation.