Sentences with phrase «modest warming from»

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«The increase in retail sales in June was relatively modest, given the temporary support to demand from the unusually warm weather,» Tombs wrote in an email.
Most player of modest talent would prefer to be at a lesser club with the prospect of playing every week rather than feel a warm glow from sitting next to international players on the bench.
«A modest reduction in flows at Hinckley right now will alleviate any further threat from current low levels and the potential impact of the warm - weather months to come.
The long - term warming over the 21st century, however, is strongly influenced by the future rate of emissions, and the projections cover a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from very rapid to more modest economic growth and from more to less dependence on fossil fuels.
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In other words, the same natural forcings that appear responsible for the modest large - scale cooling of the LIA should have lead to a cooling trend during the 20th century (some warming during the early 20th century arises from a modest apparent increase in solar irradiance at that time, but the increase in explosive volcanism during the late 20th century leads to a net negative 20th century trend in natural radiative forcing).
Under RCP2.6 the force of AGW peaks in 2040 and begins to show a modest decline, this decline giving a cooling that balances with the tag end of the warming resulting from the AGW of the preceding decades.
And while methane from Siberian lakes is a relatively modest contributor to climate change compared to human greenhouse emissions by industry and automobiles, it helps intensify a positive feedback mechanism for global warming.
If the trend continues, the dramatic changes in energy use in the United States — in particular, the switch from coal to newly abundant natural gas for generating electricity — will have only a modest impact on global warming, observers warn.
I know how much emotional investment you have in at least a modest amount of warming from aCO2,
We acknowledge that global warming can produce a wide range of possible outcomes — ranging from modest to catastrophic — but we believe that any reasonable risk management exercise points toward immediate decarbonization as the optimal response.
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.
The Charney Report stated that numerical modelers of global climate had estimated that the modest warming caused by carbon dioxide would be greatly amplified by a more powerful warming from an increase in water vapor, particularly in the tropics.
«These results warn against drawing over-optimistic conclusions from the relatively modest loss of mountain plant populations likely to be observed during the coming decades», says Stefan Dullinger from the University of Vienna, «because the final consequences of climate warming on plant distribution in the Alps will only become realized with a delay of decades or even centuries.»
I see from the article that Prof Christy holds the more modest position of mankind's contribution to warming as being in the 10 % to 30 % range.
It might sound from their arguments like their projections mean we're on course for only a modest amount of warming.
Global cooling could replace the modest warming that prevailed from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s and the relatively stable global temperatures of about the last 16 years.
Most of your readers are probably unaware of the fact that doubling carbon dioxide in itself only produces a modest warming effect of about 1.2 C and that to get dangerous warming requires feedbacks from water vapour, clouds and other phenomena for which the evidence is far more doubtful.
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.
The planet didn't heat up as much as scientists expected it to from 2000 to 2010 (though it was still the warmest decade on record), and a new study finds that chemical compounds spewed during modest eruptions around the globe could be behind the trend.
What I understand from the abstract is that there are positive feedbacks — to both cooling and warming — and that most models predict a modest positive cloud feedback.
Even modest amounts of global warming could trigger a carbon «time bomb» and release massive amounts of greenhouse gases from frozen Arctic soils, a new study has warned.
I think a modest temperature increase is, overall, beneficial (which is why I moved from NY to FL: ^) and that the large majority of the warming we have experienced is due to natural cycles not under human control.
For a closer to home example, BEST station 166900 was changed from basically no trend raw to modest «expected» warming.
In the House, two veteran Democrats - John Dingell of Michigan, who chairs the Energy Committee, and Rick Boucher of Virginia - are pushing a proposal with more modest fuel - economy standards and a provision to remove the states» authority over global warming pollution from vehicles.
I've never disagreed with the possibility of climate disruption from anthropenic activities I've only argued that disruption is very likely to be overshadowed by net benefits like modest warming when the earth has been in a ice age for 4 million years, more warming in the higher latitudes and less in the lower exactly where most people would wish for warming (or lack thereof), and fertilization of the atmosphere with CO2 (plant food).
Since 20 times as many people currently die from cold as die from heat, modest warming will reduce temperature - related deaths.
Turkey, Syria, and Iraq are already spatting about water flow from the Euphrates River, which the IISD report predicts «even modest global warming» could shrink by a further 30 percent.
Reporting from Washington — With the gulf oil spill creating political opportunity, Senate Democrats will begin crafting a sweeping energy bill this week that could include a first - ever, though more modest, cap on global - warming pollution, believing they must act now despite differences within their ranks and political jitters in an election year.
Since the fuel is derived from natural gas, and requires a lot of electricity to compress, store, and dispense, the net global warming potential reduction for the fuel is modest compared to hybrids like the Prius, let alone BEVs.
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