Sentences with phrase «ocean warming reported»

Likewise, Cazenave 2014 had published according to altimetry data, sea level had decelerated from 3.5 mm / yr in the 1990s to 2.5 mm / yr during 2003 - 2011, and that deceleration could be explained by increased terrestrial water storage, and the pause in ocean warming reported by Argo data.

Not exact matches

The report found some deep mesophotic coral ecosystems may be less vulnerable to the most extreme ocean warming, but others may be just as vulnerable as their shallow counterparts and can not be relied on to act as «life boats.»

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

In addition, the report notes that three of the warmest years on record — 2014, 2015 and 2016 — occurred since the last report was released; those years also had record - low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean in the summer.

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.

The predictable retreat of Arctic sea ice under global warming presents one last opportunity to adopt effective marine management practices before, rather than after, an ocean is opened up to development, says Lisa Speer of NRDC in New York City, who co-authored the workshop report.

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.

Other droughts that struck the U.S. also correspond to cooler tropical Pacific temperatures, the researchers report, but only the so - called Dust Bowl drought combined these condition with a warmer Atlantic Ocean.

This research is part of a report on ocean warming by some of the world's leading climate change scientists.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scales, effects and consequences, which was presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since 1995.

The report blames the explosive growth of coral - eating starfish, intense storms, and coral bleaching associated with warming ocean waters.

Severe hurricanes, storm surges and an increase in the number of icebergs are just some of the changes planet Earth has experienced due to warming oceans over the last 20 years, according to a new report.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

The researchers reported that the shifting winds «produce an intense warming» just below the surface of the ocean.

The report found that ocean warming is affecting a multitude of ocean processes, including breeding and migration patterns of ocean species such as plankton, whales and fish.

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Researchers report that waters in the Atlantic are now warming faster than the rest of the global oceans.

The Fourth Assessment Report finds that «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising mean sea level.

The long - term warming of the planet, as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño, led to numerous climate records in 2015, including milestones for global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Climate Report.

I've also been reading some reports about much warmer ocean temperatures in the Arctic, another reason sea - bed methane could be released.

Two recent reviews of research on warming and the oceans in Nature Reports / Climate Change have stressed just how unlikely those high - end sea projections are.

By coincidence I have been debating a denier on another forum and have suggested he read this recent IUNC report on ocean warming.

Another example would be the data showing some expected warming in the surface / mid layers of the oceans as reported by Levitus et.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

Nick O, # 65: Will the rate of sea level rise, due to ocean warming and thermal expansion, be somewhat faster than predicted in previous reports?

Now it's happening again: reports of coral bleaching are coming from across the Pacific Ocean; NOAA is reporting that the North Pacific warming is bigger than anything they've seen to date.

Despite faster rates of warming in terrestrial systems compared to ocean environments, the velocity of range shifts for marine taxa exceeds those reported for terrestrial species.

As I've been reporting since I camped with scientists on the drifting, chugging sea ice near the North Pole in 2003, the basic picture is of a warming system (oceans and atmosphere) in which open water eventually dominates in late summer — for better and worse, depending on your vantage point.

Rising ocean temperatures are contributing to the risk, the report said, noting that the National Climatic Data Center reported that in June the world's ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record.

and how about nasa's recent report of the apparent arctic ocean gyre reversal to clockwise that is underway — that the counterclockwise gyre of the arctic ocean rotation (since 1989) which apparently also been largely responsible for centrifigally pushing arctic ice into warmer waters, speeding melting — should now predictably result in increasing amounts of ice due to the centripetal pull of the ice toward the north pole?

Data from 3,000 scientific robots in the world's oceans show there has been slight cooling in the past five years, never mind that «80 % to 90 % of global warming involves heating up ocean waters,» according to a report by NPR's Richard Harris.

The news service reports, «Scientists believe climate change — the warming of oceans — has allowed some of the almost 2,000 jellyfish species to expand their ranges, appear earlier in the year and increase overall numbers, much as warming has helped ticks, bark beetles, and other pests to spread to new latitudes.»

The team's findings, published in Nature journal Scientific Reports, confirmed the connection in past climate warming, the Pacific Ocean's temperature shifts and long episodes of drought in California.

Increased melting in the warmer summer is causing the internal drainage system of the ice sheet to accommodate more melt - water, without speeding up the flow of ice toward the oceans, the journal Nature reports.

Here is similar reporting by an eyewitness, (from 1922) The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.

The United States delegation even weighed in, urging the authors of the report to explain away the lack of warming using the «leading hypothesis» among scientists that the lower warming is down to more heat being absorbed by the ocean — which has got hotter.»

That this report has Affiliation with (I will not show the long list of scientific organizations affiliated with this study, Skeptical Science, for obvious reasons, is not mentioned) Publication Date: 12/2011 «Our interpretation, based on ikaite isotopes, provides additional qualitative evidence that both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were extended to the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Peninsula.»

The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports.

These fears recall the resignation of Christopher Landsea from the IPCC after its panel chair reported in a 2005 news conference that global warming was a factor in the severe 2004 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean.

Also global heat content of the ocean (which constitutes 85 % of the total warming) has continued to rise strongly in this period, and ongoing warming of the climate system as a whole is supported by a very wide range of observations, as reported in the peer - reviewed scientific literature.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

Back in June, the Geneva Association for the Study of Insurance Economics published a report that defines the future direction of climate change science: «Warming of the Oceans And Implications for the (Re) insurance Industry.»

While recent headlines about the woes of U.N. - led efforts to assemble a comprehensive picture of the science have caused gleeful headlines on The Drudge Report and other skeptical media outlets, the vast weight of the evidence — from melting glaciers to warming oceans to satellite temperature readings, and much more — still points to a changing climate caused by human activity.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences, reviews the effects of ocean warming on species, ecosystems and on the benefits oceans provide to humans.

The IPCC has issued comprehensive assessments in 1990, 1996, 2001, 2007 and 2013, methodology reports, technical papers, and periodic special reports assessing specific impacts of climate change (the latest ones in the works: oceans and ice cover, land degradation, impacts of 1.5 °C warming).

J. T. Fasullo, R. S. Nerem & B. Hamlington Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 31245 (2016) doi: 10.1038 / srep31245 Download Citation Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction Received: 13 April 2016 Accepted: 15 July 2016 Published online: 10 August 2016 Erratum: 10 November 2016 Updated online 10 November 2016 Abstract Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.

If this analysis is correct then all of the land - ocean records used in the IPCC AR5 report have been overstating the slowdown in warming over the past 16 years, although for different reasons.