Sentences with phrase «of overall global warming»

By the late 1990s these problems were largely resolved, and most experts found the predictions of overall global warming plausible.

The problem is that when Davey correctly pointed out that surface temperatures are only one small piece of overall global warming (about 2 percent), and melting ice and warming oceans must also be considered (over 90 percent of the overall heating of the planet), Neil remained focused exclusively on surface temperatures.

They also found that, consistent with my team's research, about 30 % of overall global warming has gone into the deep oceans below 700 meters due to changing wind patterns and ocean currents.

Like I say, you see a richness of behaviour in the models including in some occasions behaviour that at first sight looks not dissimilar to that highlighted in the observations by the Thompson paper and this on top of the «external control» as we called it in our 2000 paper in Science of the external forcings in a particular model which drives much of the multi-decadal hemispheric response in these models and which, in terms of the overall global warming response, is dominated by greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

«Overall, it appears global warming might not affect the strengths of most hurricanes,» says meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Florida.

Overall, the group is pressing for final passage of climate legislation during this Congress because delays will make it more difficult to avoid the most severe effects of global warming.

If a battery's energetic cost is too high, its overall contribution to global warming could negate the environmental benefits of the wind or solar farm it was supposed to support.»

The science of global warming has opened rifts in U.S. classrooms like evolution before it, but teaching it differently may improve science literacy overall

Our research should provide clues to evaluate how differences in the variety and amount of organics in high - latitude zones, which are vulnerable to global warming, will affect cloud formation and the overall climate in the future.»

Researchers have found evidence that near - ground biogenic emissions of organics suppress cloud formation in cool - temperate forests in autumn, providing clues to how global warming will affect cloud formation and the overall climate.

Their findings indicated that, overall, the contribution of changing solar activity, either directly or through cosmic rays, was even less and can not have contributed more than 10 percent to global warming in the 20th century.

By comparing the small oscillations in cosmic ray rate and temperature with the overall trends in both since 1955, Sloan and Wolfendale found that less than 14 percent of the global warming seen during this period could have been caused by solar activity.

«We've thought of climate change as «global warming»; among what matters is how this overall warming affects conditions that hit people where they live,» said Eric DeWeaver, program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funds NCAR.

But overall, the global warming impact of metals is still dominated by the old - school elements iron and aluminum.

global warming The gradual increase in the overall temperature of Earth's atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect.

Although this increasing trend is modest, it is surprising given the overall warming of the global climate and the region.

They tend to believe that as the planet warms, low - level cloud cover will increase, thus increasing planetary albedo (overall reflectiveness of the Earth), offsetting the increased greenhouse effect and preventing a dangerous level of global warming from occurring.

Overall, from 1889 to 2005, ENSO can only explain approximately 2.3 % of the observed global warming.

The IPCC's overall estimate of global sea level rise, which includes all the other factors that affect sea levels, such as melt from Greenland's ice sheets and the oceans expanding as they warm, is 60 cm by 2100 (with a likely range of 42 to 80 cm).

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

The cold air outbreak of the next few days is nothing unusual, and neither inconsistent with an overall picture of a warming world, nor evidence that global warming is making cold weather more extreme.

But this early foray into winter weather is just a small blip in the overall global picture, which is of a warming world that is still on track to see 2014 set the mark for hottest year on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

There are periods when other factors might temporarily slow that rise such as the much - discussed global warming «pause» of the last decade, but the overall connection is clear.

However, with winters overall heating up because of global warming, the precipitation that falls during the season is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow in the U.S..

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

Overall, our results would suggest that people want more emphasis placed on global warming — on average, about two - thirds of a point more.

It could be one of those game for the environmentalists and have an overall story arch based on pollution and global warming.

But I also believe that the goals of such a program will take decades to reach, and some intermediate steps will have to be taken to slow down the overall effects of global warming.

* The editorial continues the WSJ's disregard of the difference in significance between odd weather events and climate change overall, which is the basis for a running gag that the WSJ's James Taranto uses in his Best of the Web e-mail column — usually, but not always, by targeting an instance when Al Gore gave a global warming speech on a really, really cold day.

According to Kerry Emanuel of MIT while overall cycone activity hasn't increased, (includes the Pacific) North Atlantic Hurricane activity has and because of heating of the water via global warming.

Much of what they said meshed with the overall theme of the meeting, which organizers said was aimed at proving that the recent consensus on dangerous human - caused global warming was shaped more by politics and passion than data.

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.»

Solving our fossil fuel addiction and altering the course of global warming can be handled with a good overall strategy, but that strategy would not be based on a compromise that has special interests defining the details.

For a long time there's been a strong perception among those of us tracking research on human - caused global warming that meteorologists are more apt to doubt that humans could dangerously disrupt climate than the much smaller community of climatologists studying the overall climate system and what influences its patterns.

The best overall presentation of the science behind global warming to a lay reader is Philander (1998).

For best overall presentation of the science behind global warming to the lay reader, try Is the Temperature Rising?

Not to mention the contribution of these regressive activities to overall global warming.

Overall, the panel's reports have never focused much on research examining how humans respond (or fail to respond) to certain kinds of risk, particularly «super wicked» problems such global warming, which is imbued with persistent uncertainty on key points (the pace of sea - level rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases), dispersed and delayed risks, and a variegated menu of possible responses.

I prefer «global warming» myself; it seems to better describe the overall character of the problem.

So three periods of no global warming since 1957 and the overall conclusion, using the correct skeptic logic + statistics, is that the world of 2012 is as warm is the world in the 1950's.

Roy Spencer is the driving force behind the «internal variability» hypothesis, which posits that some unknown and undefined mechanism is causing cloud cover to change, which, by changing the overall reflectivity of the Earth, is the driving force behind the current global warming.

While temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer than average during the summers, the tropics and areas of the Southern Hemisphere were colder than average which comprised an average global temperature still overall lower than present day temperatures Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, while the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent.

First, there's the number of results overall, and second, all of the stories are about Chevron admitting global warming is man - caused, and none contain vicious portrayals of Garbow.

In spite of all the global hot spots, (and the increasingly rapid overall planetary warming), the climate engineers are throwing everything they can at «winter storm Ferus».

So the overall reduction of global warming we would see by year 2100 from this major voluntary reduction plan would be:

Neither Gelbspan nor anyone repeating his accusation ever proved the money trail led to an industry directive to lie about global warming science; none of them have proved skeptic climate scientists were instructed to mimic tobacco industry tactics; journalists have demonstrably not offered overall fair balance in to skeptic climate scientists; the «wedge» being driven is one arguably pounded by enviro - activists who push the «skeptics don't deserve fair media balance» talking point; and Gelbspan was not the first one to bring up this talking point.

This particular group of students does not live and breathe re the attribution of global warming, although I imagine that most of them would pretty much subscribe to the RC view of the overall issue (and they pretty much ignore paleo stuff).