Sentences with phrase «increased environmental temperatures»

With increased environmental temperatures and other causes of hyperthermia, the body's set temperature is not increased.

Not exact matches

A new low - temperature sealing biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) grade film can increase output for bakery and chocolate manufacturers, while reducing their environmental impact, claims Wipak.

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 areas like the mid-elevations of the northern Rocky Mountains, where spring temperatures are just under freezing in an average year, «it doesn't take a large increase in temperature to start melting snow earlier in spring,» said Anthony Westerling, a professor of environmental engineering and geography at the University of California, Merced.

Temperature versatility is important because increasing evidence documents dynamic and often unpredicted behavior of ice that could affect environmental conditions — as with glaciers on earth, for example — and explain the evolution of satellites» bodies in space, as with Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus.

Questions that can't be answered in the lab Sunday and her team also suggest more work should consider a species» response to multiple environmental changes, such as increased temperature and oxidation levels, as well as multiple stages of life.

During her master thesis, D. Batista investigated the effects of increased temperature on freshwater decomposers along a gradient of cadmium stress, which resulted on a publication in the journal «Environmental Pollution».

For example, clade D Symbiodinium are more abundant in acroporid corals from back - reef lagoons in American Samoa, where the SSTs reach higher maximum temperatures than the fore - reef environments, where Acropora primarily hosts clade C. ref Because they are often found in increased abundance on reefs that are exposed to environmental stressors, the presence of clade D symbionts can be a biological indicator of negative changes in coral health.

The study, published in the June 30 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, was based on an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered a relatively conservative estimate and the limit needed to avert catastrophic impacts.

Trending increases in certain environmental conditions that brew up these storms: increased sea surface and upper ocean temperatures and atmospheric instability.

Thus two environmental cues, an increase in temperature and tick feeding, trigger a major alteration of the spirochetal outer membrane.

But other hormonal changes and environmental influences can impact your BBT as well: «We also know that basal body temperature can increase because of emotional disturbances, any kind of stress factor, and going through menopausal changes,» Dr. McConnell says.

«Sauna suits can cause a rapid increase in body temperature, but because the skin is covered, sweating won't help evaporate heat,» Lisa R. Leon, PhD, chief of thermal and mountain medicine at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts, told Health.

An increased body temperature caused by environmental conditions is termed hyperthermia or heatstroke.

However, unacclimatized adult cats increased their daily caloric intakes nearly 2-fold when environmental temperatures of 23 °C and 0 °C were studied.

In general, the risk of aerosol transmission increases with proximity and duration of exposure to the source; however, once aerosolized, certain pathogens may remain infective over long distances, depending on particle size, the nature of the pathogen, and such environmental factors as temperature and humidity.3

Other animals may live for a long time with only a few adult heartworms and show no clinical signs unless faced with an environmental change, such as an extreme increase in temperature, or another significant health problem.

In mammals, resting energy requirements (RER) can be calculated based on the equation RER (kcal / day) = 70kcal ⋅ BWkg0.75 (Kleiber, 1961) and reflects the minimal amount of energy required daily to maintain body weight in the absence of factors such as exercise or environmental temperatures which could increase energy needs.

According to Dr. Walters, animals can overheat from an increase in environmental temperature or from too much exercise.

The IPCC Third Assessment Report's (TAR's) projections for methane atmospheric concentrations, carbon dioxide emissions and atmospheric concentrations, and resultant temperature increases constitute the greatest fraud in the history of environmental science.

Dorothy Atwood, one of the course participants, notes that «the reality of increasingly dangerous climate change — the rising temperatures and sea levels; the droughts, floods and stronger storms; the acidic oceans; the increasing forest fires; the expanding health dangers; the economic costs of floods, drought, hurricanes and sunken coastal cities — are very real to us and demand our personal and group response because it makes both environmental and economic sense to change the way we live and solve these problems.»

In a paper circulated with the anti-Kyoto «Oregon Petition,» Robinson et al. («Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide,» 1998) reproduced K4B but (1) omitted Station S data, (2) incorrectly stated that the time series ended in 1975, (3) conflated Sargasso Sea data with global temperature, and (4) falsely claimed that Keigwin showed global temperatures «are still a little below the average for the past 3,000 years.»

The obsession restricted focus to higher temperatures and increased CO2, which directed funding of impact analyses, whether economic or environmental to cost only, instead of cost / benefit.

«The majority of proven coal, oil, and gas reserves may be considered «unburnable» if global temperature increases are to be limited to two degrees Celsius,» he wrote in a letter to the British parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (PDF) in October, referring to the widely accepted temperature threshold for avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

Rising temperatures and more extreme weather events cost lives directly, increase transmission and spread of infectious diseases, and undermine the environmental determinants of health, including clean air and water, and sufficient food.»

«The increased risk of ozone damage to vegetation is mainly due to rising ozone concentrations and higher temperatures in the future,» says Jenny Klingberg at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

With the massive and drastic environmental upheaval and the subsequent dislocation that is well underway with a 3 deg C global temperature increase, most mammal species die out.

«We're seeing increasing temperatures and relatively little change in average precipitation, but an increase in the variability and the occurrence of both wet and dry extremes,» said Daniel Swain, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the lead author of a new paper published in Science Advances.

So how our environmental future plays out now is that as the poles melt, the ocean heats, and water surface area increases, atmospheric H2O skyrockets and some time later as the temperature passes through 4 deg C heading for 5 deg C global temperature rise, the ocean currents start to stall.

The IPCC Third Assessment Report projections for atmospheric methane concentrations, CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations, and resultant temperature increases (i.e. 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius from 1990 to 2100) constitute the greatest fraud in the history of environmental science:

The 6-fold increase in hydrocarbon use since 1940 has had no noticeable effect on atmospheric temperature...» (Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide)

Even an immediate program to eliminate carbon emissions, adopted worldwide, may not be enough to prevent the kinds of environmental catastrophes associated with rapidly increased global temperatures.

Environmental influences such as the Urban Heat Island in cities and regional towns may be contributing to the increase in temperatures since 2002, as may instrument influences such as the advent of Automatic Weather Stations at many ACORN locations since the early 1990s.

«The pattern of decreasing tree cover and increasing impervious surfaces indicate a synergistic pattern of loss of environmental benefits (e.g., air temperature cooling by trees) and increased environmental issues (e.g., air temperature increases associated with impervious surfaces),» the authors write in their study.

The catastrophic social and environmental consequences of this temperature increase will not be felt by today's decision makers or the heads of big business, but by local and indigenous communities, women and today's youth.

Even in cases where temperature increases do not cause wholesale mortality, they often push organisms to the point where they can no longer tolerate other environmental insults.

We know that a continued increase in global temperature will mean a continued increase in environmental harm resulting from our addiction to and over-reliance on coal, gas, and oil.

Confronting the risks posed by increasing global temperatures requires a deep understanding of energy and agricultural policy, the needs of urbanizing and industrializing populations, and non-climate environmental and public health risks.

The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide and ozone) associated with human activity will affect crops, pastures and forests.

According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, «the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

«[T'he evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

The theory of «man - made climate change» is an unsubstantiated hypothesis [about] our climate [which says it] has been adversely affected by the burning of fossil fuels in the last 100 years, causing the average temperature on the earth's surface to increase very slightly but with disastrous environmental consequences.

Many climate scientists and policymakers have targeted a 2 C temperature increase as the maximum threshold beyond which the planet is likely to experience serious environmental damage.

«If environmental changes such as declining pH or increasing temperature alter the abundance and species composition of the ocean biota, these changes may feed back to further affect ocean pH. If so, then we will need to account for these changes in our efforts to project ocean conditions into the future.»

In common with many such crises throughout Earth history, there is direct evidence from the rock and fossil records for elevated atmospheric CO2, rising temperatures, increased weathering and run - off, sealevel rise, expanded oceanic anoxia as well as other warming - related environmental changes.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that a drop in temperature from 24 °C to 7 °C can increase fuel consumption by 12 to 28 per cent.