Sentences with phrase «like warming oceans»
Some problems, like warming oceans, are global in scope.
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Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.
Every time I take a sip all I can think about is basking in the warm sun, sand between my toes and the soft ocean breeze against my face... It's like paradise in a glass!
The Mediterranean - like climate is marked by long, warm days moderated by the ocean breeze that blows through the mountain range, creating cool nights.
The two statewide Democrats — not known for having an especially warm relationship — graced the stage at the Casita Maria Center in the impoverished Hunts Point - Longwood neighborhood alongside Bronx leaders like Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and Congressman Jose Serrano and Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Garcia - Padilla, and in front of an undulating ocean of union placards.
Places like the southern Indian Ocean that showed the strongest warming signal the soonest tend to be the areas that will see the worst affects of warming, he explained.
Global warming could seriously mess with fisheries in a few ways: Carbon dioxide in the air contributes to ocean acidification, sea level rise could change the dynamics of fisheries, and cold water fish like salmon could be pushed out by warming streams.
There are three main time scales to consider when it comes to warming: annual temperature variation from factors like warming in the Pacific Ocean during El Niño years, decadal temperature swings and long - term temperature increases from global warming.
«However, studies like ours can help provide informative answers to the more tractable question of how a perfect storm like Sandy would behave under warmer ocean temperatures,» Lau said.
The simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.
A new study led by the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) suggests that a warmer Atlantic Ocean could substantially boost the destructive power of a future superstorm like Sandy.
«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System SciOcean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Sciocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming
The deepening of the Drake Passage resulted in a change in ocean circulation that resulted in warm waters being directed northwards in circulation patterns like those found in the Gulf Stream that currently warms northwestern Europe.
There is already evidence that many coral reef fish and pelagic fish, like tuna, have moved in response to warmer ocean waters.
A commonly held belief that global warming will diminish oxygen concentrations in the ocean looks like it may not be entirely true.
Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.
For sinking cities like New Orleans and Venice, ocean warming trends will make a bad situation even worse.
Low - lying coastal regions like Chile's are subject to advection fog, where warm ocean air crosses a band of cold water before reaching land.
El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.
He said he does think, however, that there will a broader shift to warmer ocean conditions that will last for several years and that means that global temperatures will hover around the level they have recently reached before moving upward again, like stairs on a staircase.
Gentlepeople, well done on nipping any controversy in the bud — as usual; though I'm left wondering if the warming trend isn't related to a subject that i'd like to see Real Climate Address more often; The possible shut - down of The North Atlantic Conveyor — as extreme warming of the Southern Oceans, along with the plunging of Europe into a new Ice Age would be the result of this, as I'm sure you all know.
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The goal is to capture natural variations in the climate, like changes in ocean circulation or features like the El Niño Southern Oscillation, that are swamped by the signal of human - caused warming when looking out to the end of the century.
However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.
Closer investigation of these plumes, originating from geysers blasting from polar fissures in Enceladus» icy crust, revealed this water was coming from a warm subsurface salty ocean and the water was laced with hydrocarbons and ammonia, or «many of the ingredients that life would need if it were to start in an environment like that,» Soderblom tells HowStuffWorks.
How does a more acid ocean interact with things like warmer seas, or human encroachment such as overfishing or land - based run - off?
Coral reef - dwelling fish like the orange clownfish — star of Finding Nemo — and seven colorful damselfish are imperiled by ocean acidification and warming.
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As the Arctic warms like crazy, heat flow there slows, thus jet streams slow and are wavier; the same slowing and waviness increase happens with ocean currents.
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At that point in geological history, global surface temperatures were rising naturally with spurts of rapid regional warming in areas like the North Atlantic Ocean.
The extreme cold snaps are taking place against a backdrop of generally warmer winters, and factors like a warming Atlantic Ocean have helped drive the powerful nor» easters and heavy snowfall seen on the US East Coast this year, Mann told Seeker.
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Much like a heated kettle of water takes some time before it comes to the boil, it seems intuitive that the world's oceans will also take some time to fully respond to global warming.
A reduction of regional stress such as nutrient runoff or the loss of oxygen can mitigate the impact of global stressors like ocean acidification and warming.
In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Because, like a strange, warm ocean, you will drift apart and swell together, time after time.
This breath sounds like an ocean wave and helps to warm your body from the inside out.
Every time I take a sip all I can think about is basking in the warm sun, sand between my toes and the soft ocean breeze against my face... It's like paradise in a glass!
I like the ocean and the warmer season best.
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The pearl of the Indian Ocean, Mozambique boasts 2 500 km (1 550 miles) of pristine beachfront on the mainland, with a string of beautiful and idyllic tropical islands, glittering like jewels in the warm, azure waters of the Indian Ocean.
To the South lies the famous South Coast, with towns like Margate and Ramsgate offering relaxed accommodation and an opportunity to while away the time, walk along the beaches and swim and scuba dive in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
The water was a little too cold for my liking (I like my ocean water a lovely tepid to warm temperature) but Michael braved it.
Guests can enjoy includes unique massages like the «On the Rocks» — a special healing, balancing and restoring massage with warmed sea stones; or the «Ocean Combo Massage» which is a fab combo of different techniques that will relieve tension.
WHEN THE WEATHER»S GOOD, I LIKE TO swim in the warm Indian Ocean.
If you would like to spend your day learning how to surf on pristine secluded beaches, enjoying a cold drink in a hammock 10 feet from the ocean, sea kayaking, feasting on lobster, or warming your bones next to a beach bonfire, then Barras de Piaxtla Surf Camp is the place for you.
The outdoors is a major focus and Durban not only boasts the warm Indian Ocean and various water - focused theme parks, like uShaka Marine World, it also functions as the gateway to two World Heritage sites — the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park and the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park.