Sentences with phrase «likely continue warming»

But, this is just a temporary balm: When the switch flips and the waters turn warm again, the researchers say, Earth will likely continue warming.

Not exact matches

Sunshine and warm temperatures are likely on Friday as an area of high pressure continues to be in control.
Your baby will stay warm and comfortable on your chest, and the benefits for bonding, soothing, and breastfeeding will likely continue.
The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.
Nonetheless, this current, countercyclical warming trend will likely continue — potentially exceeding that earlier warming — unless greenhouse gas levels begin to come back down.
As global warming continues to impact the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, with more meltwater streams and water tracks travelling across the landscape, more mineral phosphorus is likely to become available through rock weathering over centuries to millennia.
Although there will continue to be considerable variation in Kodiak's climate, the warming trend is likely to continue.
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.
Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.
«If the energy - transport increase is confirmed from other data sets, and it continues to increase over the next years, it will be more and more likely that it is coupled to global warming,» says Graversen.
The findings indicate some of the likely implications should current trends of rising carbon dioxide and global warming continue.
If both spatial and temporal changes in storms continue, as they are likely to do as the world warms, there will be more destructive flooding across the world's major urban centres.
The epicenter of agricultural production has moved north and west over the past half - century, and that trend will likely continue at an accelerated pace due to global warming, a new study finds.
The bad news is that such record - breaking downpours, blizzards and sleet storms are likely to continue to get worse as atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, causing global temperatures to continue to warm and making the atmosphere more and more humid.
The study found that corn production has shifted 150 miles northwest since 1950 and will likely continue that trajectory if warming patterns continue as projected.
The Chilko sockeye may do okay, but the Weaver sockeye will likely have a much harder time surviving if the river continues to warm.
«It is likely that temperatures in the Arctic will continue to rise due to anthropogenic global warming,» concludes Tokinaga.
What's more, the lowest water flow seasons of recent years — times of great stress on rivers, streams, and sectors that use their waters — are likely to become typical as climates continue to warm.
The continued warming of tropical oceans is likely to cause stresses on ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, and stronger tropical cyclones.
Earth's temperature will continue its steady climb thanks to global warming over the next five years, with 2016 likely to rival 2015 as the warmest year on record, according to an experimental forecast released this week by the U.K. Met Office.
Since there is a continued increase in emissions of (in particular) CO2, continued greenhouse warming is highly likely to continue.
While this does not mean that each winter will be warmer than the one before, the overall trend indicates that winters have been getting warmer, on average, over the last 45 years, and will likely continue to do so.
Global temperature data for March won't be released until next week, but it is likely the warm streak will continue.
As warming continues from the increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that ratio will likely continue to rise.
The average flood height increased by about 4 feet in New York between the two time periods and with continued warming, larger and more extreme storms along with even higher sea level is likely to cause more frequent and intense flooding.
Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].
While some people buy dog jumpers to keep their canine companions warm in the winter months, the growth of social media has resulted in many pet owners buying funny dog outfits purely for photoshoots and the popularity of amusing pictures of dressed - up dogs means this trend is likely to continue.
With the current El Niño weather event expected to continue bringing warm water over the rest of the winter, this slow - motion catastrophe is likely to continue.
If we are still having global warming — and I suppose we could presume we are, given this 10,000 year history — it seems highly likely that it is still the overwhelmingly primary cause of continued warming, rather than our piddling 0.00325 contribution to the greenhouse effect.
«A new study, prepared at the request of the Russian security agencies, concludes that global warming is likely to make it impossible for Moscow to continue to export oil and gas at current rates and thus over the next decade or more will undermine the foundations of Russia's economic recovery and international standing...
CO2 emissions in particular continue to increase at a rapid rate; ii) the effect of these gases is to warm the climate and it is very likely that most of the warming over the last 50 years was in fact driven by these increases; and iii) the sensitivity of the climate is very likely large enough that serious consequences can be expected if carbon emissions continue on this path.
It was caused by natural factors that likely continued through the 20thcentury, making the recent warming more difficult to explain without the impact of increased greenhouse gases.
«While these improvements in the land and ocean temperature record reveal a rate of warming greater than previously documented, ****** we also found that our computed trends likely continue to underestimate the true rate of warming.
They are saying that, if we continue with «status quo», global warming is very likely to happen in degrees that, ultimately, will very likely be quite, quite, problematic.
It was not that much warmer then than now, and so continued warming is likely to put us in a similar position.
Almost immediately (nanoseconds) they relax from their excited state by either 1) emitting that energy as a new photon, some of which will continue up towards space, some of which will go back downward to be reabsorbed, thus keeping the energy in the atmosphere longer, or 2) by colliding with another gas molecule, most likely an O2 (oxygen) or N2 (nitrogen) molecule since they make up over 98 % of the atmosphere, thereby converting the extra vibrational energy into kinetic energy by transferring it to the other gas molecule, which will then collide with other molecules, and so on, making the air warmer.
Just remember the continued ruckus with «a majority of the last 50 - year's warming was likely caused by AGW».
Such large variations of the climate likely won't occur every year over the next few decades given the limited global warming to date, but it would seem likely such conditions will occur more and more frequently as global warming continues, disrupting both social systems and ecosystems.
Moore et al 2015 found in Nature Climate Change that convection (the deep mixing of seawater closely linked to the AMOC) in the Greenland and Iceland Seas has weakened and is likely to exceed a critical point as global warming continues, where it will become limited in the depth reached.
It seems quite likely that continued global warming will increase the emissions of methane from permafrost deposits and marine hydrates.
Note also that there appears — already started — to be a likely increase in drought frequency with atmospheric warming and associated acceleration of the hydrologic cycle, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions.
With the uneven warming trends likely to continue, poor nations have a case for demanding rich world assistance to cope with climate change... Poor countries have «contributed the least, but in terms of temperature effects, they will suffer the most».
The science is clear to me and to most experts in the various fields associated with climate science: Humans are causing most of the observed global warming in the past several decades and, if we continue emitting GHGs under a «business as usual» scenario, it will become increasingly difficult and costly to adapt to the changes that are likely to occur.
In light of this prediction and global climate model forecasts for continued high - latitude warming, the ice sheet mass budget deficit is likely to continue to grow in the coming decades.
The Philippines is located in the western Pacific Ocean, surrounded by naturally warm waters that will likely get even warmer as average sea - surface temperatures continue to rise.
Let me just quote Jones and Mann: «««Medieval Warm Period» and «Little Ice Age» are therefore restrictive terms, and their continued use in a more general context is increasingly likely to hamper, rather than aid, the description of past large - scale climate changes.
Continued greenhouse gas emissions leading to further warming would mean that the chances of seeing years at 1.5 °C or more would likely increase in future years.»
It is likely that an increase will continue in the future... it appears plausible that an increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere can contribute to a gradual warming of the lower atmosphere, especially at high latitudes».
They have survived previous Arctic warming periods, including the last warm stretch between ice ages some 130,000 years ago, but some climate experts project that nothing in the species» history is likely to match the pace and extent of warming and ice retreats projected in this century and beyond, should emissions of heat - trapping gases continue unabated.
Though scientists warn that global warming will likely continue for centuries because of the long natural processes involved, there are a few things we can do to decrease the effects.
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