Sentences with phrase «largest warming factor»

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A large factor in work is momentum - if you just put in the time to get yourself warmed up, you'll soon find things flowing.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

«It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.»

Each region had an above - average CEI for the season with warm maximum and minimum temperatures being the largest contributing factor.

After correcting for problems caused by the decaying orbit of satellites, as well as other factors, they have produced a new record showing 36 % faster warming since 1979 and nearly 140 % faster (i.e. 2.4 times larger) warming since 1998.

And while that high ranking was fueled in part by a major heat wave out West, a big factor was the very warm nighttime temperatures across a large swath of the country.

The first is to emphasize your point that degassing of CO2 from the oceans is not simply a matter of warmer water reducing CO2 solubility, and that important additional factors include changes in wind patterns, reduction in sea ice cover to reveal a larger surface for gas escape, and upwelling of CO2 from depths consequent to the changing climate patterns.

The evidence that global warming is occurring, and furthermore is due in large part to human influences (though perhaps other factors also play a role), is much stronger than the evidence I have personally seen that Inhofe exists.

I am very well aware and have previously blogged that there are multiple factors that determine the degree of ice lost any given year — but the literature is clear that even in 2007, global warming played «a large part» (see «What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

To some extent, this is again due to the factors mentioned above, but additionally, the models predict that the North Atlantic as a whole will not warm as fast as the rest of globe (due to both the deep mixed layers in this region which have a large thermal inertia and a mild slowdown in the ocean heat transports).

The most interesting thing for me was in (IIRC) the * Bengtsson *, where they proposed that the main physical factor in the «variability - driven warming / SI decline» of the»30s was a persistent circulation pattern resulting in a «clearing» of the Barents (or Barentsz, if you prefer), which in turn fed back into a larger warming.

«CO2 and the Sun played the largest roles in the early century warming, but other factors played a part as well.

It is conceivable that aerosol effects (which includes «smoke») could also affect the lapse rate, but the aerosols tend to warm where they are located and depending on the composition, cool below — this gives an impact that — if it was a large factor in the tropical mean — would produce changes even larger than predicted from the moist adiabatic theory.

If C02 is the largest single contributing factor to the Greenhouse Effect (because supposedly water vapor is only involved as a feedback to primary chemistry involving C02 itself), and C02 lags temperature increases (as has been stated on this very blog), how has the Earth ever returned to colder glacial conditions following periods of warming?

I haven't thought much about the THC although I've expressed doubt about seeing large regional cooling if it did shut down or change direction, mainly because global warming is so rapid that any cooling effect with time would be dampened by warming factors going on.

That is the largest human induced cooling factor, some 1 W / m2 against the 2.4 W / m2 warming by GHGs since the start of the industrial revolution.

It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades it is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.

Therefore, incorporating large - scale dynamical factors, for example, from GCMs will help further constrain the MBL and low - cloud responses to warming.

Thank you for agreeing that there are other factors at work in global warming and bearing in mind the strength of those as demonstrated by climate history then any claim that man - made factors are anywhere near as large as 100 % or greater are going to have to demonstrate the current and past natural changes and how they interact.

Plankton is largest CO2 absorber, but also oceans are near or largest (by far largest in the more distant past) CO2 emitters, so if CO2 happen to be an important factor than: High UV / radiation = reduction in plankton = less CO2 absorbed = warming, reverse holds true.

The water vapor acts as, and therefore is, by far the largest factor of warming theory.

So Nature published Pounds» more adamant connection to CO2 in «Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming».17 Embodying the forceful storyteller Pounds boldly stated, «we conclude with «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) that large - scale warming is a key factor in the disappearances.

Attribution is difficult, there are many factors other than AGW in play, ENSO and other large scale oscillations, however some studies do find that greenhouse warming was at least partially behind the drought.

Amplification for the land area from 30 to 60 is underestimated, indicating some other factor and from 60 to 90 north, a large portion of the warming is winter related indicating increase radiant loss to space.

You can not predict the effect of a warmer climate on the rate of sea - level rise if you ignore what is by far the largest factor affecting it: snowfall.

On large spatial scales, heat stress is the most common factor causing bleaching, which is predicted to increase in frequency and severity as the climate warms.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

The influx could slow down or shut off the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic region.

There is new information that lack of sea ice causes storms to produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap have been largely unsuccessful.23 There remains considerable uncertainty, however, about the spatial patterns of future coastal erosion.

It is also known that geothermal energy particularly warms the pacific waters around its rim (the ring of fire)-- perhaps not a large factor but, it, too, would be gathered and moved to the equatorial zone by the currents.

92) If one factors in non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, lower atmosphere satellite - based temperature measurements show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).

Very warm nights, likely due to predominant cloudiness, were a large factor contributing to the record warmth.

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

A forcing of 12 — 16 W m − 2, which would require CO2 to increase by a factor of 8 — 16 times, if the forcing were due only to CO2 change, would raise the global mean temperature by 16 — 24 °C with much larger polar warming.

The basic results of this climate model analysis are that: (1) it is increase in atmospheric CO2 (and the other minor non-condensing greenhouse gases) that control the greenhouse warming of the climate system; (2) water vapor and clouds are feedback effects that magnify the strength of the greenhouse effect due to the non-condensing greenhouse gases by about a factor of three; (3) the large heat capacity of the ocean and the rate of heat transport into the ocean sets the time scale for the climate system to approach energy balance equilibrium.

As for the part about a large amount of water vapor being available, this too is part and parcel with global warming — and is in fact an often overlooked factor in the type of extreme weather and changes that become more likely as the planet as a whole warms.

All of those factors, along with a warm spring, contributed to the hive's large size.»

The hypothesized causal factors include global warming, atmospheric brown clouds, land surface modification, recovery from the mini ice - age, and large scale drying of the air among other factors.

Another factor making it difficult for the public to recognize global warming in winter, in addition to the large natural variability in winter (Fig. 2), is a tendency of the public to equate heavy snowfall with harsh winter conditions, even if temperatures are not extremely low.

I think that if we factor in thermal inertia (based on all figures we've been discussing and particularly on the IPCC links I provided), we still don't get enough warming to support a large sensitivity.

Both these studies note that various factors have contributed to climate change since the 1960s but that most of the recent large - scale warming was very likely due to the observed increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.

Glenn is correct that in the absence of other factors solar warming would cause an increase in DTR, however the other influences are sufficiently large that we would have to eliminate them to draw a strong conclusion from this effect alone.