Sentences with phrase «likely magnitude of the warming»

But the new document also acknowledges that climate science still contains uncertainties, including the likely magnitude of the warming for a given level of emissions, the rate at which the ocean will rise, and the likelihood that plants and animals will be driven to extinction.

Not exact matches

These results demonstrate the magnitude of trade - offs likely to be experienced by this species as they acclimatize to warmer conditions by changing to more thermally tolerant clade D zooxanthellae.

Such an extremely warm winter in Earth's northern extremity is still a rare event but climate change has «made the event more likely by orders of magnitude», the authors tell Carbon Brief.

This task is made easier by not quantifying the likely magnitude of CH4 deposits in the Arctic, not specifying CH4 sources (hydrates, sedimentary gas, yedoma and resumption of biota decay), and not examining the differing vulnerability of those deposits to global warming in general and Arctic amplification in particular.

Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

This is an order of magnitude smaller than the likely warming induced by anthropogenic emissions over the same time period.

Because I write here a lot, the reasons that I am a «lukewarmer» and «skeptical» of strong claims about the magnitude and dangers of CO2 - induced warming and the need for or likely effectiveness of public policies are public knowledge already.

I agree that reduction in snow or ice cover resulting from warming constitutes a likely slow positive feedback, but its magnitude may be quite small, at least for the modest changes in surface temperature that can be expected to arise if sensitivity is in fact fairly low, so the Forster / Gregory 06 results may nevertheless be a close approximation to a measurement of equilibrium climate sensitivity.

In 1992, we had just completed the first IPCC assessment report, here was their conclusion: «The size of this warming is broadly consistent with predictions of climate models, but it is also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability... The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more.

And there's also the small issue of the rate at which humans are warming the globe, quite apart from the actual magnitude of the temperatures involved... Most of the work estimating extinction rates though is likely to be conservative in its conclusions because there are many confounding factors, skewed to a deleterious synergy, that are only starting to be understood.

Although it is important to reduce the remaining climate uncertainties, such as the magnitude of the impacts of short - lived pollutants, it does not change the fact that CO2 is very likely the driving force behind the current global warming, or that if we double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from pre-industrial levels, the planet will likely warm in the range of 2 to 4.5 °C.

The magnitude and pace of the recent Arctic sea - ice decline and ocean warming is «unprecedented» in at least the past 1,500 years and likely much longer, according to a federal report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Using temperature readings from the past 100 years, 1,000 computer simulations and the evidence left in ancient tree rings, Duke University scientists announced yesterday that «the magnitude of future global warming will likely fall well short of current highest predictions.»

That panel's first assessment report in 1990 concluded that «the size of the warming over the last century is... of the same magnitude as natural climate variability» and that «the unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more.»