Sentences with phrase «ongoing warming of the climate»

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.

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The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.
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 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 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.
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.
All climate indicators have strongly confirmed the ongoing presence of human - caused global warming.
«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»
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).
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 truth is that public consciousness of this issue has faded in recent years despite the ongoing drumbeat of evidence, month after month, year after year, that the globe is warming and our climate is changing.
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.
As part of a concerted effort to avoid catastrophic climate change, the world unanimously committed to an ongoing effort of increasingly deeper emissions reductions aimed at keeping total warming «to well below 2 °C [3.6 °F] above preindustrial levels.»
In fact, Marohasy points out that a lack of rising temperatures for recent decades is so common in paleoclimate reconstructions that tendentious climate scientists have necessarily added heavily adjusted, hockey - stick - shaped instrumental records (e.g., from NASA GISS, HadCRUT) on to the end of the trend so as to maintain the visualization of an ongoing dangerous warming.
«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.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
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.»
While we can not assert with confidence whether this ongoing shift is part of natural ENSO variability or a manifestation of GHG - induced climate change [68], this increase in variance coincides with rising temperatures in the Western Pacific Warm Pool [23,69 — 71].
The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.
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 fallacy of this logic emerged recently as numerous impacts of ongoing global warming emerged and as paleoclimate implications for climate sensitivity became apparent.
But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the projections of climate change that have been made by the current family of computerized climate models has been overdone — that the world will warm up significantly less than has been predicted as a result of our ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.
Many scientists viewed the changes as evidence of an ongoing climate shift, raising concerns about the effects of global warming on the Arctic.
The researchers used data on earlier warm periods in Earth's history to estimate climate impacts as a function of global temperature, climate models to simulate global warming, and satellite data to verify ongoing changes.
Even with ongoing questions about the proxy data, the IPCC's key statement — that most of the warming since the mid-twentieth century is «very likely» to be due to human - caused increases in greenhouse - gas concentration — remains solid because it rests on multiple lines of evidence from different teams examining many aspects of the climate system, says Susan Solomon, the former co-chair of the IPCC team that produced the 2007 physical science report and a climate researcher with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.
The phrase «global warming» has been thrown about so much, in the ongoing debate over dangers of man - made climate change, that it can seem more like a dark shadow on the horizon, than an imminent threat.
~ Alas, if the ongoing Global Warming gets very bad, then there will be no «hiding out in the mountains» for would - be Survivalists, since the climate change itself and the hordes of climate refugees will render such plans null & void.
Your summary, «Anticipating the Climate Black Swan» brings up some key issues in the ongoing scientific and policy debate surrounding the premise of alarming anthropogenic greenhouse warming as postulated by IPCC.
«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.
In this sense, the EPA's new pollution rules appear to be another example of the ongoing success of «oblique» strategies to reduce climate - warming greenhouse gas emissions.
«With semigration an ongoing trend, we see an increasing number of people relocating their families from Gauteng to secure estates on KZN»S North Coast where they can enjoy the sub-tropical climate, warm ocean and coastal forest,; world - class promenade, and abundance of top schools, new shopping centres and restaurants.
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