Sentences with phrase «made oceans the warmest»

Global warming has made oceans the warmest they've ever been and temperatures are expected to keep rising for decades to come.

--------- «It doesn't have to warm the atmosphere above the ocean temperature to make the ocean warmer than it would be without CO2 in the atmosphere.»

This is the mechanism by which the down - welling radiation from GHG's make the oceans warmer.

It doesn't have to warm the atmosphere above the ocean temperature to make the ocean warmer than it would be without CO2 in the atmosphere.

And just as CO2 makes the oceans warmer than otherwise, so does water vapor.

Not exact matches

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.

One explanation for why the season is so active is that all of the components that make hurricanes are near ideal conditions: The ocean waters are at their warmest they get all year (and are somewhat hotter than usual).

So it's starting to get really warm in LA, which makes me think of a few things: how I still haven't lost all of my «holiday weight» (whoops), wishing my apartment had central air («an ocean breeze» just isn't the same) and last but not least....

The quality of our Temecula Valley wines is made possible by a unique microclimate that features morning mist, warm midday sun, cooling ocean breezes and clear starry nights.

It's made up of clean warm water, plenty of salt and a blue food colouring for the ocean effect.

A nice Cuban gold - link chain makes us think of Miami beaches, evenings spent with friends dancing and sipping frosty drinks and dipping our toes into warm ocean water.

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

He points to the influence of the Pacific Ocean, which can make winters warm in California and summers cool.

Rising levels of CO2 are making it hard for fish to breathe in addition to exacerbating global warming and ocean acidification

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

Oceans absorb about 90 percent of man - made warming, and warm waters fuel hurricane activity, according to NASA.

Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward, a new study suggests.

The researchers found that ocean warming would be an overwhelming stressor that made food webs less efficient, neutralised the «fertilising» effect of elevated carbon dioxide and threw the fragile relationship between predators and prey off balance.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

As the world's climate warms, will the Pacific Ocean make matters worse by dumping extra heat into the atmosphere?

Many small, frozen worlds seem to have warm underground oceans, making the search for alien life more exciting — and more confusing.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Salmon Spotting Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon A wild run of spring chinook salmon make their annual 300 - mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery in central Oregon, arriving each spring and summer.

«However, the long - term ocean warming made this [flooding] event three times as likely as it would have been without the warming.»

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

For sinking cities like New Orleans and Venice, ocean warming trends will make a bad situation even worse.

The discovery of genes involved in the production of DMSP in phytoplankton, as well as bacteria, will allow scientists to better evaluate which organisms make DMSP in the marine environment and predict how the production of this influential molecule might be affected by future environmental changes, such as the warming of the oceans due to climate change.

If they begin to melt, however — particularly as they're exposed to warmer ocean water — the shelves become thinner and the grounding line begins to retreat backward, causing the glacier to become less stable and making the ice shelf more likely to break.

Plumes of water thought to be spewed into space from the ocean would make the search easier — but now it seems these plumes could just be warm rocks.

Because existing phenomena — such as thermal expansion of water from warming — do not fully explain the corrected sea - level - rise number of 3.3 millimeters, stored heat in the deep ocean may be making a significant contribution, Cazenave said.

Global greenhouse gas emissions have already committed the residents of the Maldives to a watery future: ocean expansion due to warming has raised sea levels enough to regularly deluge the islands, and melting glaciers will only make matters worse.

Some 5C of warming appears to make the Oceans less dense allowing methane calthrates to be released from the Ocean floor en masse.

One, which the authors themselves note, is that the warming of the Arctic Ocean that is already happening could trap nutrients in deeper, cooler layers that would make them less available to feed algae blooms.

Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky makes the connection between ocean acidification and a warming planet.

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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.

«The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Niña conditions less likely» says corresponding author de Freitas.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

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In turn, a warmer atmosphere heated the oceans making them much less efficient storehouses of carbon dioxide and reinforcing global warming, possibly forestalling the onset of a new glacial age.

The important point the study makes is that the onset of warming in the tropical ocean in the 1830s is earlier than is typically assumed from the instrumental record and from other proxy reconstructions that have focused mainly on Northern Hemisphere land temperatures.

By its placement in the film, it appears that I am saying that since carbon dioxide exists in the ocean in such large quantities, human influence must not be very important — diametrically opposite to the point I was making — which is that global warming is both real and threatening in many different ways, some unexpected.

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That's weakening coral reefs around the world, making them more vulnerable to impacts of ocean warming and water pollution.

The warming of the oceans by sunlight, makes the daytime surface waters more bouyant than the cooler waters below and this leads to stratification - a situation where the warmer water floats atop cooler waters underneath, and is less inclined to mix.

Hurricanes feed off warm water and the theory that rising ocean temperatures are making them stronger than they would otherwise have been has been around for a long time.

A long time before Katrina, scientists suspected that a warming ocean could provide extra fuel for hurricanes, making them stronger than they would otherwise have been.

So, I have had to make some changes to protect my skin's health while also accommodating my absolute love for warm sand, ocean air and everything summer.

But as the ocean gets warmer, some models predict the glacier could make the global sea level rise by two or three feet over the next hundred years.