Sentences with phrase «modest warming»

The most likely outcome, according to most of these authors, is only very modest warming of little consequence.

And modest warming means that there will also be no dangerous increase in sea levels.

The Earth's current modest warming trend (less than 1 degree C over 100 years), is well within historical norms.»

It notes the vast scale of the carbon reservoir beneath the tundra in the far north and the centuries of greenhouse gas emissions that could escape on even modest warming trajectories.

This is in very good agreement with the data, which show very modest warming over Antarctica in the last 100 years).

«Modest warming by itself would also be a net benefit to human health and agriculture.

For instance, even a relatively modest warming over the coming decades is very likely to have a meaningful effect on the timing and distribution of precipitation and evaporation rates, which will, in turn, have a substantial impact on freshwater supplies.

Or is it a result of more modest warming partly counteracted by modest cooling?

snip ---- «Indeed, satellite and weather balloon measurements have found little or no warming over the past 25 years, and other climate models project only modest warming»

Economists must offer convincing demonstrations of what is already apparent from the data: that modest warming correlates with increased GNP, higher average income, and enhanced living standards across the globe; and that carbon dioxide, rather than being a pollutant, benefits the growth of agricultural crops and forests.

For additional perspective, consider that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which has long experienced modest warming contains less than 10 % of the continent's ice mass.

It clearly shows a very modest warming throughout its existence with the most notable upward slope being around 1700.

The assumption is that modest warming from carbon dioxide must be trebly amplified by extra water vapour — that as the air warms there will be an increase in absolute humidity providing «a positive feedback».

While modest warming of the tropical East Pacific did occur, the atmosphere never really responded to the oceanic changes in a meaningful way, and model forecasts by early summer quickly fell toward a borderline event, at best.

Yet the proponents of global warming alarmism «science» have claimed that severe weather, such as hurricanes, has increased dramatically due to this rather modest warming.

We're not worried about the relatively modest warming and climate change over the past century, we're worried about the dangerous change to come over the next century because of the rapid rise in global greenhouse gas emissions in the «skeptics» favored business as usual scenario.

I believe we have been incredibly lucky to have lived duringa period of modest warming, but it may be coming to an end.Mankind has always prospered when the world was warmer, perfectexamples being the Roman and Medieval periods.

Here in the great Pacific Northwest, February saw a modest warming and some trees and foliage have started to bloom already.

The piece moves into the mid-register to track the modest warming that occurred during the 1940s.

And it is likely that more CO2 and the modest warming that may come with it will be an overall benefit to the planet.

So what happened in 2015 is what is supposed to happen when an El Niño is superimposed upon a warm period or at the end year of a modest warming trend.

** A modest warming is likely to be beneficial — not damaging.

I wonder why Professor Nordhaus never mentions the work of Yale resource economist Robert Mendelsohn and his 23 economist - colleagues, whose acclaimed book concludes that a modest warming and higher CO2 levels would actually enhance GDP - raising average income, prosperity, and general welfare.

The IPCC - affiliated scientists have made guesses that the unknown climate components will dramatically accelerate the modest warming caused directly by human carbon dioxide emissions.

«Fact: Most scientists don't believe the effect of human activities on climate is sufficiently well understood to make predictions about future climate conditions, and many believe the modest warming that may occur would be beneficial.»

«Besides being a good summary of the massive controversy behind the scenes in the climate science research community about the causes of the past century's modest warming, Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.»

So ambling along to 2008, some ENSO bumps to 2013 and a modest warming since.

Even with the «modest warming» thus far, the signs of what's to come are not good.

According to the letter, these two reports show a «profusion of actual observations of the workings of the real world showing little or no negative effects of the modest warming of the second half of the twentieth century», thus suggesting that the «prudent path» forward is to continue with business as usual.

A modest warming of the planet will result in a net reduction of human mortality from temperature - related events.

In response to a modest warming, agricultural methods in low and mid - to high latitude could be adapted to maintain cereal yields.

Compare those low trend rates with the modest warming trend of the entire atmosphere: +1.2