Sentences with phrase «other unprecedented warmings»

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Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

Link iv.1: therefore current warmth is not unprecedented Link iv.2: therefore something other than man - made forcing can be responsible for this level of warming Link iv.3: therefore today's warming is more likely caused by something natural than by man - made forcing.

Experts now predicted that global warming could bring not only rising sea levels but unprecedented droughts, storm floods, and other disasters.

Our recent warming is definitely not «unprecedented» based on ice core and other proxy records in this interglacial

Recall that the catastrophe community has longed blamed CO2 for recent warming, because their research and models found no other causes for the «unprecedented» warming in the past 25 years or so.

The recent Blob - related coastal warming, on the other hand, has been unprecedented in magnitude, extension, and duration, and the full extent of its impacts on the California Current marine ecosystem is still under investigation.

• There is much scientific and historical evidence that the reported recent warming in the Arctic is not unprecedented, for instance the 1920/30's are recorded to have been relatively warm as in this 2006 paper, and this newer paper is interesting if challenging, but there are still other similar papers and much widespread history of the Medieval Warm Perwarm as in this 2006 paper, and this newer paper is interesting if challenging, but there are still other similar papers and much widespread history of the Medieval Warm PerWarm Period.

Its abstract warns that «projected warming of the Antarctic continent during the 21st century may soon see significant and unusual warming develop across other parts of the Antarctic continent [besides the peninsula]», but no Steigian red spots of supposedly unprecedented warming.

On the other hand, if the MWP was global, but was less warm than today, then the current warmth would be unprecedented.»

As the region experienced an unprecedented September warm spell Tuesday, quite a few Elgin area residents headed out for ice cream and other frozen treats to beat the heat.

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

Other examples are «The Science is Settled», Unprecedented Warming», «to melt by 2035»... The list is a long one.

The so - called «hockey stick» curve — a graph my co-authors and I published a decade - and - a-half ago showing modern warming in the Northern Hemisphere to be unprecedented for at least the past 1,000 years — is one among other areas of climate science where the evidence has become ever more compelling.

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

The swift uptick on graphed data, and that Wolfe describes, indicates an unprecedented rate of warming, and shows that something other than those natural forces had an impact on the CO2 levels of the last century.

And it was in 1988 that James Hansen decided to present the case that this slow warming since the LIA was soon to become «unprecedented» due to CO2 emissions, thus causing untold climate chaos - i.e. boiling oceans, droughts, famines, Manhattan Island flooding along with other coastal regions, Earth turning into the next Venus, and etc..

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

Whether the intent was to mislead or just paint a nice tidy picture, the fact is the graphic did mislead many other scientists and lay people into a false degreee of certainty as to the unprecedented nature of recent warming.