Sentences with phrase «just as a result of global warming»

The unusual temperature conditions we can experience right now can therefore be seen just as a result of global warming.

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Now, with regional climates shifting as a result of global warming, it is unclear just how far — and how fast — organisms will need to travel to keep up with moving climates.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Dr. Rignot recently proposed that unabated warming could result in three feet of global sea rise just from water flowing off Greenland, three feet from Antarctica and 18 inches as the remaining alpine glaciers shrivel away.

Now, climatologists report, that sort of haze could be in everyone's future, not just Seattle's, as a result of global warming — and that haze, mostly fine particulate matter, could pose a threat to our lungs and overall health.

Because of the first of these reasons, were we to abruptly halt all emissions now, the sulfate aerosols would rapidly be removed from the atmosphere by precipitation whereas the CO2 concentration would remain elevated, and so there would be a significant further warming influence just as a result of past emissions; this warming would lead to the quite significant global warming that Lindzen mentions.