Sentences with phrase «much warming the world»

That would narrow estimates of how much warming the world can expect for a given level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

So, I say that we are in for a much warmer world NO MATTER WHAT WE DO.

We aren't warming slowly by paleoclimate standards, and human life was not around in a much warmer world.

That can not change quickly, even if it means a much warmer world for future generations.

The «Erlichs» of this world see extinction around every corner; coral reefs developed in a much warmer world, yet are «threatened» by a 2 - degree rise.

These estimates are critical, as climate sensitivity will be one of the main factors determining how much warming the world experiences during the 21st century.

As climate scientists constantly remind us, even if the world successfully implemented a substantial mitigation program today, a much warmer world is already built into the physical climate system.

«For example, one can quantify the odds of a typical heatwave happening and estimate how much a warmer world would load the dice toward the more frequent occurrence of a similar event.

Not exact matches

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

First of all, thank you so much for the warm welcome back into the blogging world!

Much like the legendary warm welcome you'd expect from Glasgow, Whyte and Mackay would like to extend that welcome to our whisky also - wherever you happen to be in the world.

The smile that lights up your day; that laugh that warms you up with joy and optimism; the ability to show you the world through innocent eyes: kids can be such amazing parts of our lives with their constant ability to learn and grow, teaching us how to see the big picture and to love someone so much it hurts.

Her baby will have some of the softest skin, a warm glow, and a smile that shows the world he or she is loved very much.

The world of dinosaurs was much warmer than the present day; Nasutoceratops lived in a subtropical swampy environment about 100 km from the seaway.

We think the last time concentrations were as high as 400 ppm was between 3 and 5 million years ago, when the world was much warmer.

And if such an «off the chart» event can occur when the world has warmed by less than 1 °C, what sort of extreme events will occur by 2050, when the planet could be as much as 3 °C hotter?

And does this mean the world won't warm as much as previously expected?

Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.

A number of media outlets tried to link this recent cold outbreak with a wavier jet stream that is possibly caused by the reduction in temperature difference between a much warmer Arctic, which is heating up rapidly due to global warming, and the lower parts of the world.

They argue that there is something wrong with a world in which carbon - dioxide levels are kept to 450 parts per million (a trajectory widely deemed compatible with a 2 degree cap on warming) but at the same time more than a billion of the poorest people are left without electricity, as in one much discussed scenario from the International Energy Agency.

Data from BOREAS allows researchers to estimate how much carbon dioxide trees pull out of the atmosphere and store within their structures, a value used in some models to predict the role of forests in a future, warmer world.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Likewise, while models can not represent the climate system perfectly (thus the uncertainly in how much the Earth will warm for a given amount of emissions), climate simulations are checked and re-checked against real - world observations and are an established tool in understanding the atmosphere.

In each case they ran the model for 100 years to see how much the world warmed as CO2 levels increased.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

The loss of so much gas may explain how the planet morphed from a wet, warm world to a dry, icy one.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.

While they will certainly miss out on the pleasure and intellectual excitement that come from knowing how the world works, how much science do they actually need to know to make up their minds about the issues surrounding genetic engineering or global warming?

That much warming could raise sea levels several feet, flooding the world's coastlines and shifting global weather patterns in ways that could cause massive recurring crop failures.

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

But we've struggled to explain how a world much farther from the sun than Earth is could get so warm.

Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.

The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest warming locations in the world and, according to the European Space Agency, the enormous Wilkins Ice Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years back.

Leaving politics aside, for the people around the world who inhabit as much as 71 % of the world's coastlines and are surrounded by oceans, this is not just a statement on a piece of paper, but a commitment of world leaders to take the wellbeing of our further generations to heart, to tackle the burning of fossil fuels and global warming collectively.

They were Jorge Sarmiento, an oceanographer at Princeton University who constructs ocean - circulation models that calculate how much atmospheric carbon dioxide eventually goes into the world's oceans; Eileen Claussen, executive director of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change in Washington, D.C.; and David Keith, a physicist with the University of Calgary in Alberta who designs technological solutions to the global warming problem.

But as the world continues to warm, rising sea levels are going to drown many of our coastal cities, along with much farmland.

Models predict how much the world will warm depending on how much we emit in future.

This means that, according to scientists» best estimates, the world will be as much as 5.4 °C warmer in 2100 than it was before the industrial revolution.

At present, more than a third of the world's carbon is sucked up by the oceans — thank God, or else we'd have that much more warming already.

The planet has also been running abnormally warm, including record heat in much of the world's oceans.

Average temperatures in the region are already 2.7 °F higher than the 1971 - 2000 average — twice as much as the warming seen in other parts of the world.

As it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decades.

Geologic records have to go back as far as 66 million years — the age of the dinosaurs, and a warmer world with different ecology — to find evidence of levels changing this much, and this quickly.

In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to today.

Global warming is likely to shrink the size of fish by as much as a quarter in coming decades, according to a groundbreaking study of the world's oceans.

This keeps Europe — and, surprisingly, much of the rest of the world as well — a lot warmer, much of the time.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

Using these much smaller climate sensitivities, which are drawn from careful and long - running observations of the natural world, the projected warming will be moderate and beneficial for the foreseeable future.

If we thus want to know whether Harvey is a «harbinger» for the future of Houston, the attribution question addressing the overall likelihood of a hurricane like Harvey to occur, which includes many variables other than temperature and sea level rise that interact, needs to be answered by carefully estimating the likelihood of such hurricanes developing in a warming world as well as how much rain they bring.