Sentences with phrase «leading to more warming»

As a result, less sunlight bounces back out to space, leading to more warming.
But, if global temperatures increase from man - made global warming, this could increase water vapour concentrations, potentially leading to more warming.
Because ice reflects some heat radiation back out into space, when it melts it exposes darker ocean which then absorbs that radiation, leading to more warming.
As temperatures rise, permafrost thaws, unleashing trapped methane into the atmosphere and leading to more warming.
For example, European Union standards favoring fuel - efficient diesel cars over gasoline cars may lead to more warming, because diesel engines release 40 to 250 times as much soot as gasoline engines.
On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.
Obviously, we don't have interior shallow seaways to dry up today, but one could envision a feedback process where warming accelerates oxidation of soil carbon, which leads to more warming, and so forth.
The warming leads to more warming, which leads to more warming
Any growth of emissions above that will lead to more warming.
It is not that the polar regions are amplifying the warming «going on» at lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...»
It is not that the polar regions are amplifying the warming «going on» at lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc..
It is only through positive feedback in which the smaller astronomical forcing triggers the increase in CO2 that then leads to more warming, and more CO2, etc, that the full warming can be accounted for.
So even though past warm episodes may have been initiated by orbital changes that caused warming and thus caused CO2 to rise, which then led to more warming, we know that the current warm episode is being driven by increasing CO2 due to the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests.
If CO2 were to lead to more warming it would also lead to more water vapour.
The increased mid-Holocene solar heating in boreal summer leads to more warming in the western than in the eastern Pacific, which strengthens the trade winds and inhibits the development of ENSO (Clement et al., 2000, 2004).
Warming is thus accompanied by moistening (more water vapor), which leads to more warming due to the enhanced water vapor greenhouse effect.

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When you increase your confidence in the sales process you will have more conversations and convert more cold calls into warm leads, which will then lead to more sales.
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That means warmer air and warmer water could lead to larger, more intense hurricanes, which in turn lead to more rainfall.
With this type of personalized outreach, sales teams can warm leads and have more powerful interactions that move from first conversation to closed deal faster.
Put prospecting on autopilot to keep them from slipping through the cracks and free up more time to close warm leads.
Lynn has a very warm and positive personality and she made us feel much more relaxed leading up to the labor and birth.
Voters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is contacting more voters in local constituencies.
The latest research shows that climate talks must lead to more aggressive action to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming will lead to more heatwaves, droughts and floods.
Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.
«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.
Some have even taken the lead in providing incentives to combat global warming, hoping to forestall any more Katrina - like climate disasters that could potentially ruin them.
More methane leads to warmer temperatures and even more thawing permafrMore methane leads to warmer temperatures and even more thawing permafrmore thawing permafrost.
Professor Julian Murton, from the University of Sussex, who led on the study, said: «As our climate warms mountain rock walls are becoming more unstable — so working out how to predict rock falls could prove crucial in areas where people go climbing and skiing.
Also, coniferous species are generally more conservative in their water use, which could lead to warming through a decrease in [evapotranspiration],» said Naudts.
Although soil moisture and warming were the more significant factors that led to early ripening, the low yields from wine - grower practices also played a part.
With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.
One factor is that researchers have found warmer temperatures increase the number of young produced by the gloomy scale insect — a significant tree pest — by 300 percent, which in turn leads to 200 times more adult gloomy scales on urban trees.
Your article on the evolution of warm - bloodedness as a means to avoid fungal infection ends with speculation that global warming might drive the evolution of more warm - tolerant fungi, and lead to a raised risk of fungal pathogens in both mammals and birds (3 December, p 50).
Warmer tropics lead to higher atmospheric pressures and more sunny days over the Alaska Range, which contribute to more glacial melting in the summer, Winski said.
Warmer - than - average spring temperatures reduce upper Colorado River flows more than previously recognized, according to a new report from a University of Arizona - led team.
«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.
«The model indicated that warming of an additional 1 - 2 degrees Celsius would more than likely lead large declines in coral cover and overall changes to the community structure,» said lead author Jennifer K. Cooper, a graduate student in marine biology at James Cook University.
«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.
As sea waters in the South Atlantic warm, the amount of krill available for seals drops, leading to a smaller yet more genetically varied population
But the toxic algae bloom that led to the ban is still floating around Lake Erie and ones like it could become more common as the climate continues to change in a warming world.
The IPCC chapter on long - term climate change projections that Wehner was a lead author on concluded that a warming world will cause some areas to be drier and others to see more rainfall, snow, and storms.
A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University of Guelph researcher.
They can also explain more than half of the warming recorded over the Antarctic Peninsula, because «anomalously strong westerlies should act to decrease the incidence of cold air outbreaks from the south and lead to increased warm advection from the Southern Ocean.»
Moreover, the models also found that warming leads to more humidity over the Pacific, which should have caused more rainfall, not less.
Warmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurriWarmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurriwarmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurricanes.
Some show far more variability leading up to the 20th century than the hockey stick, but none suggest that it has been warmer at any time in the past 1000 years than in the last part of the 20th century.
A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.
As the planet warms and more ships enter Arctic and Antarctic waters, the Coast Guard hopes to finally break the deep freeze on new icebreakers and lead the way.
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