Sentences with phrase «increases over the next century»

A report published Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) finds that sea level increases over the next century will have significant impacts on coastal communities.

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization concludes that 10 national parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the next century

Ten national parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the next century that could alter their ecosystems and drive tourism from some of the more iconic settings in the western United States.

Similarly, all climate models used in this assessment agree that the average annual temperature in Montana will increase over the next century.

If fossil fuel consumption is to blame, and if it continues to track the exponential growth rate of the past century, it stands to reason that the temperature increase over the next century will be considerably more than over the previous one.

America's WETLAND Foundation Restore - Adapt - Mitigate: Responding To Climate Change Through Coastal Habitat Restoration PDF Coastal habitats are being subjected to a range of stresses from climate change; many of these stresses are predicted to increase over the next century The most significant effects are likely to be from sea - level rise, increased storm and wave intensity, temperature increases, carbon dioxide concentration increases, and changes in precipitation that will alter freshwater delivery.....

Is there any other reason, apart from the models (which are shown to be worthless until proven otherwise), to believe that CO2 is largely responsible for existing warming and that the dangers may increase over the next century?

The consensus view of global temperature increase over the next century is a curve with a peak in the 2 - 4 C range, but a non-trivial tail at higher temperatures.

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Projected increases in average U.S. temperatures «could reduce U.S. economic growth by up to one - third over the next century,» according to a Richmond Fed paper.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half centOver the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half centover the next half century.

«Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century,» she told a meeting of the UK's Royal Society.

Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

Warmer temperatures and increased fire frequency over the next century could eliminate the Joshua tree from 90 percent of its current range within Joshua Tree National Park, according to another USGS study.

With the world's energy demands expected to increase more than three-fold over the next century, ExxonMobil and Shell executives acknowledge the necessity (and difficulty) of unseating inexpensive and efficient crude oil and coal

Climate change is expected to increase the intensity of winds over the Southern Ocean throughout the next century, and the new findings show that Totten Glacier will probably respond to the changing winds.

Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the ice sheet over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.

A prior study cited by the paper found that an increase in shrub cover of roughly 20 percent could spur as much as 1.8 degrees Celsius of additional regional warming over the next century.

With world population expected to increase as much as 50 percent over the next half century, analysts are indeed worried that increasing demand for water, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, will have serious consequences both for human health and the environment.

Over the next century, temperatures in the Central Appalachians are expected to increase in all four seasons.

While natural global warming during the ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic Global Warming over the next several centuries.

Given that atmospheric CO2 will likely continue to climb over the next century, a long - term increase in flowering activity may persist in some growth forms until checked by nutrient limitation or by climate change through rising temperatures, increasing drought frequency and / or increasing cloudiness and reduced insolation.

Increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide could also significantly alter ocean temperatures and chemistry over the next century, which could lead to increased and more severe mass bleaching and other stressors on corIncreased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide could also significantly alter ocean temperatures and chemistry over the next century, which could lead to increased and more severe mass bleaching and other stressors on corincreased and more severe mass bleaching and other stressors on coral reefs.

Rising CO2 emissions, and the increasing acidity of seawater over the next century, has the potential to devastate some marine ecosystems, a food resource on which we rely, and so careful monitoring of changes in ocean acidity is crucial.

In celebrations of its 25th year, this year's show will host a series of seminar sessions looking back on the tourism revolution in the MENA region over the last quarter of a century, while exploring how the industry will shape up over the next 25 years, in light of geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, huge technological advances and, of course, the increasing trend of responsible tourism.

No one can know what will happen over the next decade, but this data does not support the IPCC assertion that we can be 90 % certain that increasing CO2 concentrations have been responsible for a substantial part of the 20th century warming, or that we an expect 3 degrees C of warming over the next century.

A recent video of him being interviewed by Brit Hume of Fox News had Michaels asserting that while global warming was real we could expect the average rate of temperature increase over the last century to remain flat over the next century, and so no big deal.

They should be able to withstand the predicted increase of 0.00007 atmospheric CO2 concentration over the next century.

He takes it as a proven given that temperature sensitivity to CO2 will be high, over ten degrees F for the likely CO2 increases we will see in the next century, which puts his «proven» climate sensitivity number higher than the range even in the last IPCC report.

The report also highlights the fact that carbon dioxide concentration has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution from about 290 parts per million to about 340 today (1981) and that it is expected to double over the next century.

Indeed, we find that the zonal variance increases at all latitudes over the next century (Fig. 3).

«Although many corals are becoming less abundant, there remain a number of species that are holding their own or increasing in abundance and these corals will populate tropical reefs over the next few centuries,» researcher Peter Edmunds, of California State University, explained.

Although climate models have been predicting increasing average global temperatures over the next century or so, the past decade has not shown as much warming as most scientists had expected.

New paper finds East Antarctic ice sheet will have negative contribution to sea levels over next 200 years — Published The Cryosphere — Paper «studies one of the largest ice shelves in East Antarctica and predicts increased accumulation of ice on the surface of the ice shelf will have a net contribution of decreasing sea levels over the 21st and 22nd centuries.

The projected increase in global temperatures over the next century is on the order of 1.2 °C.

For example, decision makers already have a good idea what will happen if no action to reduce CO2 emissions is taken: the «business as usual» scenario shows significant increases in temperature and changes in precipitation, leading to serious impacts over the next century.

A key concern is whether the added pressure of climate change would substantially increase overall extinction rates such that a major extinction episode would become a fait accompli within the next few decades, rather than something that potentially would play out over centuries.

The difference is larger than in models, but models do project an increasing difference over the next century.

Otherwise we are locking the world into as much as a 9 degrees Fahrenheit increase in average surface temperature over the next century, which could well destabilize our climate.

Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century.

We will most likely see larger than previously expected increases in sea levels over the next century according to a recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado,

And scientists say that unless we curb global - warming emissions, average U.S. temperatures could increase by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.

«To deal with the increased carbon dioxide emissions we face over the next half century, you would have to cover Europe - from the Atlantic to the Urals - completely with trees.

In contrast, the risk of extinction without climate change was calculated to be less than 1 %, suggesting that climate change will cause a dramatic increase in extinction risk for these taxonomic groups over the next century.

18F implies almost two degrees a decade, a huge number considering the warming over the last decade has been close to zero and no decade has had warming of more than about 0.3 F. Further, I am sure the Sierra Club found someone who actually produced such a study, but the IPCC «consensus», which I think is exaggerated, calls for only about 4 - 6F increases in the next century.

More cordial relations, clearly — but probably much more: strong demand for Bolivia's natural gas, and a prolonged drought in Chile, with water supply to the Santiago region expected to fall by 40 % over the next half - century, could increase the value of Bolivia's potential gas and water exports to Chile.