Sentences with phrase «ongoing warming of»

«The Arctic sea ice cover continues to be in a decreasing trend and this is connected to the ongoing warming of the Arctic,» said Claire Parkinson, a senior climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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 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.

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Mark McGowan will hope to bask in the warm afterglow of ongoing public approval of the new stadium at Burswood.

Over the course of a 45 - minute interview recently at his Town of Ulster headquarters, Gibson offered warm words for half a dozen local Democrats, including Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo and County Executive Mike Hein, in between detail - rich discourses on agricultural policy and the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Irene.

The research adds one important data point to the ongoing question of how much methane, a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide, is emitted in the life cycle of natural gas production, transport and use.

However, this year's ice cover remains far below the 1981 - 2010 average, indicating an ongoing, long - term decline of ice because of warming temperatures, according to scientists.

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.

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.

However, emerging research suggests that Joshua trees are disappearing across much of the Mojave Desert, perhaps because of ongoing global warming.

Richard Platt of Harvard Medical School, leader of the ongoing Mini-Sentinel pilot program (a testing ground and warm - up for the larger Sentinel Initiative), hopes that hd - PS will accurately sniff out health concerns, or else put them to rest.

5) Finally, we must remember that temperatures since 2000 have been artificially raised by the recent record El Nino, and the ongoing warm phase of the AMO.

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.

Veizer must be aware that in view of these more recent data, the scientist who originally proposed this correlation in 1991, Knud Lassen, has concluded in 2000 that solar cycle variations can not explain the ongoing warming trend [1].

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.

Recently, the effects of ongoing climate change (ocean warming and acidification) on N2 fixation drew much attention, but various studies led to controversial conclusions.

Any way you look it, from the Climate Prediction Center Outlook through May, to the ongoing warm anomalies in land and sea surface temperatures, much of the United States is likely to find above average temperatures in the coming months.

We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data.

The scientists concluded in the paper that their findings, combined with projected ongoing warming, show that even if rates of climate pollution are reigned in, that «may not be sufficient to avoid significant impacts» of acidification on coral reef regeneration.

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.»

It can be a challenge to keep going, but if you plan ahead and make the necessary lifestyle adjustments to support your ongoing fitness plan, those feel - good chemicals can help carry you through the winter into the warm and welcoming arms of spring.

With the return of winter comes the return of that ongoing search for the perfect winter coat — you know, the one that's warm, functional, reasonably priced, cute AND different from the sea of North Faces and standard black peacoats.

I'm very grateful for thoughtfully prepared welcome kits, scrumptious spreads during Orientation week by staff at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a warm welcome - reception by the Technology, Innovation, and Education (TIE) program faculty & staff as well as (ongoing) pot - luck dinners and get - togethers with new friends.

Noise pollution, for example, may adversely affect echolocating mammals, and the ongoing effects of global warming degrade arctic environments.

Its implication is that even if anthro - GHG outputs were halted tomorrow, and the pipeline warming timelagged from past GHG outputs were to fail to appear, and the ongoing warming and GHG outputs from seven «Major Interactive Feedbacks» were to come to an unexplained stop, then with observed warming of ~ 1.0 C the loss of the cooling «Sulphates Parasol» would give an outcome of 1.5 C to 2.1 C.

Ongoing assessments of penguins and other life along the peninsula have not turned up any clear link between population changes and tourism so far, and the main source of change appears — so far — to be the dramatic warming of the regional climate, Ron Naveen told me in a recent e-mail.

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.

Speaking of polar temperature changes (this is my lame attempt at looking like I'm staying on thread), does anyone here have some expertise they can share regarding the potential (or lack thereof) for tropospheric impact resulting from the ongoing sudden stratospheric warming event in the Arctic?

«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»

Recent intensification of wind - driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus

The point being that w / out ongoing decimation from soot, wind, ozone (surface ozone pollution that warms from UV), the AO and greenhouse gases, the ice would have been more likely to recover from the impact of such an event.

I do not want to draw any conclusions as to the threat to the polar bear populations posed by the ongoing environmental changes / future warming of the Arctic.

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.

It is interesting to note that the ongoing present warming has just reached the peak value of the 1940s, and this has underpinned some views that even the present Arctic warming is dominated by factors other than increasing greenhouse gases (Polyakov and Johnson 2000; Polyakov et al. 2002).

which shows warming trends resulting from the cooling of early 20th century volcanism is still ongoing to a significant but diminishing extent into the 1950s.

Empirical evidence for ongoing intensification of the water cycle would provide additional support for the theoretical framework that links intensification with warming.

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 environmental circles there is a clear and correct recognition of the fact that the planet is warming at an astounding pace, yet, there is a perplexing denial of the ongoing climate engineering insanity (which is mathematically the greatest single negative influence on the climate system overall).

«With temperatures 12 — 18 degrees [C] hotter than they normally are this time of year,» the Canadian Press suggests, «a massive ridge of high pressure will remain anchored over the Pacific Northwest [with] ongoing dry conditions and warmer than normal» temperatures.

And, «there has been no warming observed as yet as a result of the ongoing human - caused CO2 increase.»

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 ongoing warming trend — as well as the increasing frequency and severity of high - humidity heat waves — is ultimately driven by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.