Sentences with phrase «indicating current warming»

First, there has been no change reported in surface temperatures since about the year 2000, indicating no current warming.

I can't claim to be a whiz at statistics but I remember telling some skeptics on another forum, Accuweather / climate change I believe, that the major point and problem with this paper were that the results still showed a «hockey stick» indicating current warming was pretty anomalous and that the authors were not climatologists, nor did they seem to consult any to discuss why certain methods were used over the ones they decided to use.

Not exact matches

Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay rates and less unpleasant lives than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the current week.

Instead, the fossil record indicates they vanished during the Earth's glacial - interglacial transition, which occurred about 12,000 years ago and led to much warmer conditions and the start of the current Holocene period.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

The findings indicate some of the likely implications should current trends of rising carbon dioxide and global warming continue.

«The current world climate report indicates clearly that net - zero emissions are a precondition for limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Just to indicate that the current warming could not be due to the solar cycle.

And I've shown you evidence repeatedly, evidence indicating that there has been no long - term warming trend, evidence that the current spate of extreme weather events is nothing new.

But from a somewhat larger perspective, this scientific result is just one piece of a host of results all indicating where the current warming comes from.

Japanese Naval Records indicate a fleet navigated a completely ice - free Arctic Ocean at the peak of the Medieval Warm Period, so total melting is nothing new, however unlikely at current temperatures.

And in some articles where I have read that it is being observed, often historical data shows those cities and / or regions to have been warmer in the past century, which would seem to indicate (1) the permafrost issue isn't new or necessarily unnatural and / or (2) there is a substantial lag between permafrost melting and rising temps (ie, the current permafrost melt is mostly or all natural).

The warm sea surface temperatures in the gyres, during hiatus decades, indicate convergence of near - surface currents and strong downwelling of heat.

[Response: And note that the abstract linked says «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

What this regional cooling data in more current times indicates to me is that it must be getting really hot in other places (& not all places are warming in lock - step), or we wouldn't be having this increase in the AVERAGE of global temps.

Nights Aren't Cooling As Much As They Used To Interestingly, the study also found that part of the reason for the 2:1 ratio can be attributed to comparatively smaller numbers of record lows than huge numbers of record highs — indicating that much of current warming is occurring at night, something which is «consistent with years of climate model research.»

If the book goes on to say that current science indicates at least half the warming of the last 50 years is due to human influence, is that not exactly what the IPCC says?

In contrast, current global warming is occuring in both hemispheres and particularly throughout the world's oceans, indicating a significant energy imbalance.

Likewise, the current policy outlook indicates that warming would still exceed 2 °C in the second part of this century — a result that will be more likely if climate is slightly more sensitive than the lowest credible estimates or if politicians» pledges to reduce emissions do not bear out.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

This would indicate that the full effects of 390 ppm of CO2 are in full effect and that the warming is already fully realized for the current emissions of CO2.

Available evidence indicates that the current warming will not be mitigated by a natural cooling trend towards glacial conditions.

However, the 160 indicative nationally determined contributions (INDCs) pledges submitted by signatories to the UNFCCC prior to COP2121, indicate that current targets for GHG emissions are unlikely to limit warming to below 2 °C 22 With no binding agreement established at COP21 for INDCs, there is no clear indication of how successful the Paris Agreement will be20.

Since the HotSpot is supposed to create a negative feedback, and it hasn't happened, what does that indicate about current warming?

The red line indicates the peak temperature anomaly of the past century, the blue line indicates the current temperature anomaly, the shaded red circles indicate periods in which temperatures were warmer than the peak warmth of the past century, and the shaded blue circles indicate periods during the past century that were colder than present.

So, once we clear away the underbrush, we can see that the case for a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade emissions rationing system is really that it would be a hedge against the risk that actual damages from warming would be much, much worse than current risk - adjusted projections indicate.

It seems to me that a common mistake, is the assumption that since our current interglacial began with periods of very rapid warming, that somehow indicates that rapid warming is currently possible.

Recently graduated Ph.D. student Shaun Marcott has published a paper claiming he compiled a proxy temperature reconstruction indicating current temperatures are their warmest in at least 4,000 years.

-- Others indicated that the observed current lack of warming despite unabated human GHG emissions falsified the premise that AGW is a major factor (the CAGW premise of IPCC)[red]

Internal variability has always been superimposed on top of global surface temperature trends, but the magnitude - as well as the fingerprints - of current warming clearly indicates that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are the dominant factor.

Sediment cores the team collected by drilling in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reported.

Since it's essentially, and of course ironically, entirely non-scientists who make this claim, the deniers would do well to read a recent UCLA study that indicates California's current six - year severe drought could be exacerbated enough by global warming to extend the dry period for centuries.

Also, current understanding of glacial ice melting due to global warming indicates that the Western Antarctic...... Read more»

Contrary to widespread belief of northward boreal forest expansion due to recent warming, lack of post-fire recovery during the last centuries, in comparison with active tree regeneration more than 1000 years ago, indicates that the current climate does not favour such expansion.

The report continues, «current estimates indicate that ocean warming is about 50 percent greater than had been previously reported by the IPCC.»

New calculations by the author indicate that if the world continues to burn fossil fuels at the current rate, global warming will rise to two degrees Celsius by 2036, crossing a threshold that will harm human civilization.

Gerald Bond found evidence of cosmogenic isotope changes at each of a long series of warming followed by cooling events (he has able to track 25 events through current interglacial Holocene and into the last glacial period, at which point he reached the limit of the range of the proxy analysis technique) which indicates a solar magnetic cycle change caused the warming followed by cooling cycle.

, but there is no empirical evidence to indicate that «CO2 forcing... will increasingly dominate» (the relation with concentration is logarithmic and you have no notion about other factors, such as those causing the current «lack of warming»), so this part should be eliminated

Many studies indicate the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was warmer than the current warm period (CWarm Period (MWP) was warmer than the current warm period (Cwarm period (CWP).

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

What's more, the preponderance of these studies indicate that the MWP was warmer than the current warm period (CWP).

However, Solanki et al made the same point as we do: «This comparison shows without requiring any recourse to modeling that since roughly 1970 the solar influence on climate (through the channels considered here) can not have been dominant» (Solanki et al., 2003), and: «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

The findings indicate some of the likely implications should current trends of rising carbon dioxide and global warming continue.

Perhaps Gelbspan has no direct current involvement in global warming political efforts, but regarding the question of where he is these days, the answer seems to indicate that his collective past efforts are worthy of deep professional level investigation in relation to all the current focus on using racketeering laws to persecute skeptic climate scientists and the organizations having any association with them.

The results of this analysis indicate that observed temperature after 1998 is consistent with the current understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors that have well known warming and cooling effects.

«Scientists were quick to declare the results of the Turner et al paper, which covered 1 per cent of the Antarctic continent, did not negate a long - term warming because of man - made climate change... «Climate model projections forced with medium emission scenarios indicate the emergence of a large anthropogenic regional warming signal, comparable in magnitude to the late - 20th - century peninsula warming, during the latter part of the current century,» the Turner research concluded.»

Many climate change «skeptics» obsess over the «hockey stick», and their discussion inevitably leads back to 1998, when climate scientist Michael Mann first published his paper indicating that current global warming was anomalous in the last 1000 years or so.

The 2007 IPCC report indicated glaciers in the Himalaya could disappear by 2035 if current rates of warming continued (Pic: Edu Bucher)

Piers Forster from the University of Leeds pointed us to his recent paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research, which indicates that current warming projections are in line with past published reports.

Current signs though indicate that the pattern is being transformed to the opposite phase as the eastern Pacific is observed to having warmer than usual water.