Sentences with phrase «of warming the globe»

The event became a symbol of a warming globe, but it also presented a sudden opportunity.

The key indicators of global warming shown below are all moving in the direction expected of a warming globe.

CO2 is as you know, the most important global warming gas, as it stays in the atmosphere for long ages, this then is the major «amplifier» of a warming globe between the ice ages.

These «coping strategies» are designed to defend against or manage the unpleasant emotions associated with «waking up» to the dangers of a warming globe.

The table below summarizes the potential effects of warming the globe two Celsius degrees beyond pre-Industrial temperatures.

Researchers found that around the 15,000 - foot - high Tibetan Plateau, average temperatures have soared by 0.4 degrees Celsius -LRB-.72 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade (twice the average of the warming globe), while precipitation has risen by 12 percent since 1960.

A paper by Tim Kasser and myself28 draws on psychological research into the various «coping strategies» we might use to defend against or manage the unpleasant emotions associated with «waking up» to the dangers of a warming globe.

And it's downright deceitful to focus on this minucia while ignoring the bigger picture of a warming globe and increasingly stressful extreme weather events that will continue inflicting greater damage on a complex society that seems to be committed to ignoring the consequences of increasing our planet's atmosphere's insulating medium (GHGs) by a third.

Now, without going to the trouble of a Baysian probability analysis (which would just be putting numbers to educated guesswork), I think there is good reason to consider the Russian Heatwave sufficiently improbable on the assumption of no warming (relative to its probability on the assumption of GW) that it is worth independant recognition as evidence of the warming globe instead of just being burried under a mob of other statistics.

The key indicators of global warming shown below are all moving in the direction expected of a warming globe.

Not exact matches

But hurricanes are also influenced and steered by massive global trends in weather that are hard to predict: The warming or cooling of waters in the Pacific (El Niño and La Niña) and patterns like the Madden - Julian oscillation (an eastward - moving weather system that circles the globe every month or so and makes thunderstorms more likely) all play a role.

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«Jim Beam has been making history by producing the world's finest bourbon through seven generations of family distillers, and this partnership truly signifies a new era for the brand — an era in which we push boundaries even further, attracting new fans across the globe and continuing the great growth we've enjoyed on the brand,» said Kevin George, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Beam Inc. «Mila's love of bourbon, her appreciation for the authenticity of our brand, her warm personality and her global relevance to our Make History campaign make her the perfect partner.

Below is the full statement of Bawumia's message: I would like to extend my warmest felicitations to the Muslim Ummah in Ghana and around the globe on the occasion of the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.

Of course, climate predictions will also guide adaptation to a warmer globe, and even potentially provide early warnings for natural disasters.

But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources — such as coal - to - liquid fuel — as major sources of globe - warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

Rice said that even the cold weather in the United States this past winter might make sense in relation to climate change because the rest of the globe was warmer.

Scientists know that the clouds can act as a sunshield, cooling parts of the globe and offsetting the global warming caused by the greenhouse effect (see «Not warming, but cooling», New Scientist, 9 July 1994).

As the globe warms, communities across the world are providing examples of how to adapt.

The climate is warming in the arctic at twice the rate of the rest of the globe creating a longer growing season and increased plant growth, which captures atmospheric carbon, and thawing permafrost, which releases carbon into the atmosphere.

August's warmth spread into September, contributing to the warmest year to date for the globe, but not enough to continue the recent 16 - month streak of record warmth.

Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe.

Finally, one recent study suggests that incomplete sampling of Arctic temperatures led to underestimation of how much the globe actually warmed.

Our global climate models zoom down to finer and finer resolutions; our satellites reveal remote corners of the globe; we increase our understanding of the response of giant ice sheets and deep ocean currents to a warming planet.

The team is focusing on the Arctic because, just as today's Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the planet, the Pliocene Arctic warmed more than the rest of the globe.

As the planet continues to warm, rainfall patterns around the globe will shift — and some parts of the United States will see their flood risks rise.

TROMSØ, Norway — A novel form of the «urban heat island» effect might contribute to why the far north is warming faster than the rest of the globe, a study of five Arctic cities finds.

Temperatures in the Arctic are increasing twice as fast as in the rest of the globe, while the Antarctic is warming at a much slower rate.

Blistering heat waves recorded around the globe in 2013 were linked to human - caused global warming, according to a broad survey of studies on extreme weather events published yesterday.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

One result is a flow of cold deep water toward the equator and warm surface water toward the poles, and this «overturning circulation» plays a crucial role in moving heat around the globe.

Policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work was also cited by IPCC, said that the report cherry - picked not only from among the literature to select a paper that delivered the conclusion it hoped to highlight — that a warming globe was worsening economic losses from disasters — but also from within Muir - Wood's paper.

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

El Niño has helped to boost temperatures this year, as it leads to warmer ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, as well as warmer surface temperatures in many other spots around the globe, including much of the northern half of the U.S..

Because July is also climatologically the warmest month of any year, this was also the warmest month the globe has seen since 1880, topping the previous record - holder, July 1998, by 0.14 °F.

It is well documented that the Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the globe, but the reason for this remains a mystery.

Along one string of sites, or «stations,» that stretches from Antarctica to the southern Indian Ocean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean basins.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

In fact, the computer modeling suggests cutting black carbon could forestall as much as two thirds of the warming in the Arctic — the fastest warming region of the globe — over the next 30 years.

Smith and Croyle had read some of Schrag's papers about carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS — a technique for keeping globe - warming carbon dioxide out of the air by burying it — and they were ready to put it into action.

The impacts of global warming have begun to appear across the globe, from shrinking glaciers to rising seas.

An average warming of the entire globe by 4 °C is a very different matter, however, and would render the planet unrecognisable from anything humans have ever experienced.

By 2050, half of the world's population will reside in the tropics — the relatively warm belt that girdles the globe — according to State of the Tropics, a hefty report released today.

It also happens to be warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

But even with such policies in place — not only in the U.S. but across the globe — climate change is a foregone conclusion; global average temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 degree C) and further warming of at least 0.7 degree F (0.4 degree C) is virtually certain, according to the IPCC.

«The real reason for concern is that we can not rule out the upper end of that uncertainty range, i.e. around 9 °F warming of the globe by the end of the century,» Mann said.

If you don't know anything about how the atmosphere functions, you will of course say, «Look, greenhouse gases are going up, the globe is warming, they must be related.»