Sentences with phrase «local temperature increases»

Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

Positive and negative yield impacts projected for local temperature increases of about 2 °C above preindustrial levels maintain possibilities for effective adaptation in crop production (high confidence).

Some corals are able to acclimatize to local temperature increases over time.

The inescapable conclusion — or perhaps I should say suspicion — is that land - based weather stations may be reporting just local temperature increases but that there is negligible global warming.

In the early 1970s, the United States Congress, exercised by the threat, held hearings where experts explained to politicians the dangers of the new age of global cooling, which, as Newsweek reported, would cause «droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons, and even local temperature increases....»

A sentence on local temperature increases combined with increasing food demand posing large risks to food security globally and regionally was discussed at length.

«Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

Without adaptation, local temperature increases of 1 °C or more above pre-industrial levels are projected to negatively impact yields for the major crops (wheat, rice, and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, although individual locations may benefit (medium confidence).

Although a different scenario to deforestation described above, our desire to concrete over natural land cover (including all important trees) causes local temperature increase that have been linked to air pollution levels and illnesses.

If local temperature increases are limited to 1 to 3 °C, some regions, such as Northern Europe and North America, could benefit from a longer growing season, more precipitation, and less frost, depending on the crop.

This early snowmelt has been linked (pdf) to local temperature increases and warming - driven changes to Arctic air masses.

Local temperature increases of a degree or more above preindustrial levels are predicted to reduce yields of wheat, rice and corn in both tropical and temperate regions, with some more localized areas benefiting, according to the study.