Sentences with phrase «increase over the coming century»

The number of the strongest storms, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes, will likely increase over the coming century, according to the latest National Climate Assessment.

These rates are expected to increase over the coming century, imperiling the survival of 7,000 acres of freshwater tidal wetlands that protect riverfront communities and critical infrastructure from flooding and provide habitat for species on which commercial fisheries along the entire Atlantic coast depend.

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The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

A new study takes this concept into the realm of weather and climate, finding that global warming might sharply increase the odds of grey swan hurricanes and storm surge over the coming century.

«suggesting that Arctic warming will continue to greatly exceed the global average over the coming century, with concomitant reductions in terrestrial ice masses and, consequently, an increasing rate of sea level rise.»

There is a consensus that climate change over the coming century will increase the risk of extinction for many species.

The American Climate Prospectus addressed several key climate impacts over the coming century, including increases in heat - related mortality, increases in the amount of coastal property exposed to flooding, declines in labor productivity, increases in energy expenditures, and declines in agricultural...

A paper by Usoskin comes to a solar time lag using proxies over the last 1000 years or so, of about 20 years, which would lower the effect of c02 even further during the late 20th century, after the increase in solar activity from 1750 to about 1950 +.

p. 240 «Productivity growth is the primary driver of the global economy, with per capita GDP projected to increase by more than 900 per cent over the coming century, compared to a 380 per cent increase over the 20th century.

Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450 — 600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry - season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the «dust bowl» era and inexorable sea level rise.

At long last, the actual levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were revisited: Callendar found they had increased by some 10 %, which he suggested may have caused the warming, and he went on to add that over the coming centuries there could be a climate shift to a permanently warmer state.

Revelle calculated that, at the emissions - rates of the time (assuming, like most of his predecessors, that these would likely remain constant), an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of around 40 % was possible over the coming centuries.

An implication of the GFDL studies is that if the frequency of tropical cyclones remains the same over the coming century, a greenhouse - gas induced warming may lead to an increasing risk globally in the occurrence of highly destructive category - 5 storms.