Sentences with phrase «in incremental warming»

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Is it also fair to say that like any other insulator each fixed incremental addition of more insulation is less effective than the previous increment — so that like having on five layers of clothing in the arctic winter adding a sixth won't help keep you warm nearly as much as going from no clothes to adding the first layer?

For their study, Hansen and his colleagues combined ancient paleo - climate data with new satellite readings and an improved model of the climate system to demonstrate that ice sheets can melt at a «non-linear» rate: rather than an incremental melting as Earth's poles inexorably warm, ice sheets might melt at exponential rates, shedding dangerous amounts of mass in a matter of decades, not millennia.

The record El Nino's and the warm phases of the PDO and AMO have more to do with global warming than infinitesimal incremental increases in a minute trace gas.

For hurricanes, for example, it's useful to know that for the foreseeable future the incremental change in damages caused by global warming is relatively small compared to the impact of hurricanes in the first place, so that for most practical purposes it's better to be afraid of hurricanes than to be afraid of global warming's effect on hurricanes.

If you argue that CO2's absorption ability was saturated in earlier events, then you have to argue that it is saturated today, and that incremental CO2 will have no further warming effect, which AGW supporters are certainly NOT arguing.