Sentences with phrase «of ongoing global warming»

However, these natural variations linked to MOC mainly explain residual natural variability which is superposed on greenhouse warming and do not in any way represent an alternative explanation of ongoing global warming.
The fallacy of this logic emerged recently as numerous impacts of ongoing global warming emerged and as paleoclimate implications for climate sensitivity became apparent.
Frustrated by the ongoing diplomatic stalemate, a number of urban leaders have decided to take matters into their own hands, adopting solutions that already exist or inventing new ones for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for the effects of ongoing global warming.
However, emerging research suggests that Joshua trees are disappearing across much of the Mojave Desert, perhaps because of ongoing global warming.

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The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.
«The model also suggests ongoing warming of global temperatures will likely influence the ecology and distribution of such medically important ticks, favoring more tick - borne diseases among people and pets.
Soon is a leading skeptic of the widely accepted science surrounding climate change, In the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the change.
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data.
Study documents disappearance of pikas from low - elevation sites and shows how ongoing global warming will further restrict their range in the future
And this is on top of ongoing efforts by the administration aimed at «preventing scientists who believe there might be such a link [between global warming and more intense hurricanes] from speaking out.»
Noise pollution, for example, may adversely affect echolocating mammals, and the ongoing effects of global warming degrade arctic environments.
Although the Met Office Hadley Center model projects extreme drying and warming in the Amazon due to ongoing climate change, and there may even be a commitment to long - term decline of part of the Amazon forest even at just 2 degrees global warming above pre-industrial, other climate models show less of a drying or even none at all.
There is nothing «skeptical» about rejecting the overwhelming scientific evidence of ongoing, dangerous anthropogenic global warming while perpetrating and promoting falsehoods, distortions, sophistry and conspiracy theories, which is what WUWT is all about.
All climate indicators have strongly confirmed the ongoing presence of human - caused global warming.
Some past studies (e.g. Goldenberg et al, 2001) assert that there is no evidence of any long - term increase in statistical measures of tropical Atlantic hurricane activity, despite the ongoing global warming.
First of all, I find the narrow scope of the ongoing «scientific» debate about «global warming» very disturbing.
Global warming from the ongoing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases is almost certainly contributing to the ice retreats, a host of Arctic experts now agree, although they hold a range of views on how much of the recent big ice retreats is due to human activities.
This is shown quite vividly in the graph above, from the invaluable ongoing «Six Americas» study of attitudes on global warming science and policy, led by researchers at Yale University and George Mason University.
The observed warming is likely the result of a combined effect: data strongly suggest that the AMO has been in a warming phase for the past two or three decades, and we also know that at the same time anthropogenic global warming is ongoing.
In addition to an ongoing hops shortage, which we first reported last year, failed barley crops are causing further concern in the beer brewing industry, and we can chalk it up to the effects of global warming.
In the latest chapter in the ongoing crusade against manmade global warming, alarmists have blamed climate change for the creation of «ghost forests» along the U.S. Atlantic seaboard.
The people of Finland need to be told that the global warming is still ongoing, that is why 2016 was the hottest year ever.
Compare this with the unequivocal findings of the scientific community regarding ongoing warming: climate change now is global and in all likelihood driven primarily by human activities.
«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.
So the real bombshell here from my perspective is that the promotion of Nic Lewis's work by skeptics represents a shift in skeptics attitudes towards that of accepting CO2 and man are the prime control knob for recent and ongoing global warming.
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.
The instability of AMOC is one of the great open questions remaining in our understanding of climate change, one of the ongoing explorations into global warming's «degree and extent.»
As part of my past and ongoing research I have used a range of observations and models to examine how clouds interact with background aerosols, how clouds respond to warming, and what role clouds play in the global water cycle.
There were other clear linkages to the ongoing UNFCCC negotiations in the discussions, for instance on: what period can be referred to as «pre-industrial,» how to describe the qualities of such metrics as Global Warming Potential and Global Temperature Potential, and how to address the implications of RCP scenarios in the context of staying below 2 °C of warming or a lower warming Warming Potential and Global Temperature Potential, and how to address the implications of RCP scenarios in the context of staying below 2 °C of warming or a lower warming warming or a lower warming warming target.
In December, 2009 Greenpeace established a climate crime scene in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for their ongoing obstruction to global warming solutions.
Yet another attempt to gloss over this fundamental weakness in the man - made global warming theory is made in a recent paper by Peter W. Thorne, John R. Lanzante, Thomas C. Peterson, Dian J. Seidel and Keith P. Shine: Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy.
In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Professor Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human - caused climate change.
while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.
Moreover, real world data provide no compelling evidence to suggest that the ongoing rise in the carbon dioxide concentration of the atmosphere will lead to significant global warming or changes in Earth's climate.
On 17 - year trends, we can achieve 95 % confidence reaching to the end of 2005 of strong ongoing statistically significant global warming.
Even now, as Earth continues to free - fall into what is already a runaway warming scenario (mathematically speaking), the ongoing blatant global climate engineering assault goes completely unacknowledged by the whole of the climate science / meteorological community.
Thursday's confirmation hearing for President Obama's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency became the latest forum for an ongoing argument over global warming, jobs, the future of the U.S. coal industry, and the role of the federal government.
Given the house - of - cards - like collapse of global warming alarmism over the past year — as well as the sort of ongoing self - inflicted harm described above — I'm hoping that Tom Wolfe will recount the spectacle in a new book, perhaps called «The Bonfire of the Credibilities.»
Meanwhile, as the ongoing 2016 RGGI Stakeholder Process continued, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a decision concerning the enforcement of the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act.
At least 20 years will be needed before the climate hysteria can be reconsidered, the controversial climate activist — he styles himself a scientist despite his unabashed activism — told the Daily Mail, adding that the ongoing lack of global warming «could go on for a while.»
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data.
Anyone needing additional confirmation need only read the national headlines for a couple of months and observe its ongoing response to Anthropogenic Climate Change (nee Anthropogenic Global Warming).
«The thawing of permafrost on the ocean floor is an ongoing process, likely to be exaggerated by the global warming of the world's oceans.»
In the worst - case scenario, this is cemented in the public mind as a refutation of the connection between anthropogenic carbon emissions and global warming, and ongoing projects to eliminate carbon will be reversed.
Just that plus 0.8 C over that period - with several clearly distinct ups and down in the graph - including crucially the ongoing 16 year flat lining is not a reason to jump out the window screaming nor change the socio economic make up of the world to stop «catastrophic man - made global warming».
Despite ongoing criticism, the study formed the backbone of global warming theories — until leaked e-mails cast fresh doubt on Mann's methodology and integrity, notably «the trick» he used to make his data so compelling.
However, in the Hadley cell entry, the cited article is the reference for this: «Scientists fear that the ongoing presence of global warming might bring drastic changes to the ecosystems in the deep tropics and that the deserts will become drier and expand.».
The ongoing expansion of international trade in fossil fuels promises to sharply increase greenhouse gas emissions, potentially pushing global warming to a catastrophic tipping point.
Many scientists viewed the changes as evidence of an ongoing climate shift, raising concerns about the effects of global warming on the Arctic.
The most current research shows that aerosols do temporarily cool the planet, masking the ongoing effects of global warming.
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