Sentences with phrase «not gradual warming»

The AGW supporters are rightly concerned about climate change, however, the problem is abrupt cooling (the -2 C to -4 C events) not gradual warming.

What we need to fear is not gradual warming but descent into a new ice age, which is historically about due, and would bring huge suffering for humans and most other living things.

Not exact matches

However, Petrenko found that the gradual, natural global warming and rapid regional warming that characterized the deglaciation 12,000 years ago — events that were in some aspects comparable to the current human - driven global warming — did not trigger detectable releases of methane from these reservoirs.

And while the amount of cold air will be on the gradual decline in a warming world, it does not mean snowstorms will cease to exist.

«In situations like New York has had this year --[with cold and warm weather alternating instead of a gradual progression to warmer temperatures]-- trees will bloom because they're dependent on the light cycle, not the temperature,» Ponda explained.

Longer shadows and golden light signal the gradual change that's been taking place lately, but I've been making the most of the odd warm day to bring out something you've not yet seen this year.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

In the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peak.

But this gradual warming of the Arctic ocean did not begin just a decade ago, but has been gradually occuring for many decades.

And we also know that the correlation between global average temperature and atmospheric CO2 is statistically not very robust, so that something else must also «be at work» to cause the gradual warming (or «slow thaw», as you've dubbed it).

They are realising that their old ideas about gradual change - the smooth lines on graphs showing warming and sea - level rise and gradually shifting weather patterns - are not how the world's climate system works.

A gradual cooling commenced in the late 1940s bringing the temperature back to much lower values although not as cold as before the warming started.

The question is not if but how the solar serial climate changer causes the cyclic gradual (mediavel warm period and the little ice age) and abrupt climate change (abrupt termination of the last 22 interglacial periods.

Because 20 - year trends can be substantially influenced by just a few single or multi-year «warm» or «cold» events, they are not necessarily representative of the true response of the climate system to the more gradual changes in atmospheric composition that are taking place in response to human activities.

So I think we are looking at, certainly for the next few decades, just what we've had in the last few decades, which is a mild and gradual warming that will not do catastrophic harm either to human beings or to biodiversity, in fact probably the reverse.»

This is beyond well understood and only Edim, Latimer, and many of their colleague skeptics can't figure out that the ripple does not extend to the overall upward trend apart from a second - order effect due to the gradual global warming signal.

The gradual warming of the tropics may not seem as weird as March Madness, but it has much more important implications for biodiversity, food security and the stability of world financial markets.

Over on the Huffington Post, blogger A. Siegel writes that the «It is cold in my backyard, therefore global warming isn't real» perspective may partly be explained by our difficulty in comprehending something as large and gradual as climate change for, among other reasons,

Looking forward, climate researchers have already predicted a rise in global temperatures to occur over the course of centuries, not the relatively gradual warming which occurred over thousands of years in the case Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum.

«What we're seeing is stark evidence that the gradual temperature increase is not the important story related to climate change; it's the rapid regional changes and increased frequency of extreme weather that global warming is causing.

As soon as they stop the planet warms back up to where it would have been, if you had not had them in place, in a matter of a very few years rather than the gradual warming that we are currently looking at.