Sentences with phrase «intensifying effects of warming»

The intensifying effects of warming temperatures on water shortages have been detected in remote northern New Mexico, where melting snowfall feeds one of the Southwest's most important rivers.

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Abundant liquid water newly discovered underneath the world's great ice sheets could intensify the destabilizing effects of global warming on the sheets.

If warming rises above 2 °C, the effects of climate change would only intensify.

As the planet warms and storms, flooding, drought, heat waves, and sea level rise intensify, it is essential that students entering the profession have the knowledge and design skills necessary to address and mitigate the effects of climate change.

However, human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests, have greatly intensified the natural greenhouse effect, causing global warming.

By examining the spatial pattern of both types of climate variation, the scientists found that the anthropogenic global warming signal was relatively spatially uniform over the tropical oceans and thus would not have a large effect on the atmospheric circulation, whereas the PDO shift in the 1990s consisted of warming in the tropical west Pacific and cooling in the subtropical and east tropical Pacific, which would enhance the existing sea surface temperature difference and thus intensify the circulation.

But the effects of melt aren't confined to the Arctic: Ice reflects the sun's rays, so as it disappears, more ocean waters, which absorb those rays, are exposed, intensifying regional and global warming.

Do not forget, that the «greenhouse» theory expects the strongest warming in polar regions, since dry air holds only a little of water vapor and increase of CO2 should intensify the «greenhouse» effect very vividly.

With evaporation being the more powerful effect the rate of energy flow to the air above is likely to increase rather than decrease and the 1 mm deep layer descend and / or intensify despite a warming of the topmost few microns.

The direct or indirect effects of global warming might intensify the prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS, dengue and Lyme disease, they said, but the threat of increased health risks is likely to futher motivate the public to combat global warming.

Climate change intensifies droughts in Europe, Researchers model the effects of the global temperature rise Date: April 23, 2018 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ Summary: Global warming will exacerbate soil droughts in Europe — droughts will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people.