Sentences with phrase «over the coming century»

One of the most devastating potential impacts of global climate change is a large global sea level rise over the coming century and beyond.

Any GHG - induced warming to date still lies within this range, but the projected man - made warming over the coming century will be significantly larger and faster than recent natural fluctuations.

How will heat and cold deaths change over the coming century with global warming?

How aerosols will influence the climate over the coming century is unclear.

The result is new understanding of the factors that make some species more at risk due to the changing temperature and rainfall patterns that are expected over the coming century.

Any ceiling effectively puts an absolute limit on global emissions over the coming century, and the tricky part will be deciding who is entitled to make those emissions.

Even if hurricanes change very little over the coming century, sea level rise means that storm surge events will be worse than they are today.

Hopefully, pollution will be reduced over the coming century, but that makes the task of stabilizing the climate a bit more difficult.

Scientists expect the impacts of climate change to become increasingly stark over the coming century, however.

Do model projections tend to show us areas that will see more storm activity over the coming century as global temperatures warm?

Waiting to get all these final, crucial facts could prevent countries from making very costly mistakes on how they manage fossil energy resources over the coming century.

[Response: it would be odd to worry about cooling in 10,000 years time, when we have warming over the coming century to worry about first.

Global sea level rise is one of the most often cited potential large impacts of global climate change over the coming century.

The ultimate contribution of clouds to global temperature trends is highly uncertain, but according to the best estimates is likely to be positive over the coming century.

Revelle calculated that, at the emissions - rates of the time (assuming, like most of his predecessors, that these would likely remain constant), an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of around 40 % was possible over the coming centuries.

The number of the strongest storms, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes, will likely increase over the coming century, according to the latest National Climate Assessment.

The American Climate Prospectus addressed several key climate impacts over the coming century, including increases in heat - related mortality, increases in the amount of coastal property exposed to flooding, declines in labor productivity, increases in energy expenditures, and declines in agricultural...

-- There is evidence, providing a basis for medium confidence, that droughts will intensify over the coming century in southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, central Europe, central North America, Central America and Mexico, northeast Brazil, and southern Africa.

Drier conditions, more thunderstorms and warming in the Arctic over the coming century, he says, will make this more likely.

For now, the climatic effects of «clean energy» sources are trivial compared with those that spew out greenhouse gases, but if we keep on using ever more power over the coming centuries, they will become ever more significant.

The new study combines estimates of populations at risk from sea - level rise within a migrations systems simulation to estimate both the number and destinations of potential sea - level rise migrations in the U.S. over the coming century.

They then projected how global warming would alter these patterns over the coming century.

Both books chart global population, pollution and industrial and food production, over the coming century according to a theoretical computer model of how these factors are thought to influence one another.

«The primary uncertainty in sea level rise is what are the ice sheets going to do over the coming century,» said Mathieu Morlighem, an expert in ice sheet modeling at the University of California, Irvine, who led the paper along with dozens of other contributors from institutions around the world.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Some uncertainty remains around how much Africa's emissions will grow over the coming century, he said, but relative to the United States, it's a question of whether Africa's per capita emissions will be «lower or much, much lower.»

A new study takes this concept into the realm of weather and climate, finding that global warming might sharply increase the odds of grey swan hurricanes and storm surge over the coming century.

«suggesting that Arctic warming will continue to greatly exceed the global average over the coming century, with concomitant reductions in terrestrial ice masses and, consequently, an increasing rate of sea level rise.»

Filling our landfills with mercury over the coming century (or centuries) is not a good solution to our current power troubles.

If the models are right, however... The projected warming of 1.5 - 4.5 C over the coming century would be larger than any natural climate variation since the dawn of human civilisation.

Second, we investigate whether the cumulative emissions metric still holds for a class of emission pathways that do not assume that all emissions can be mitigated over the coming centuries.

Let's see what the IPCC actually said: «This analysis focuses on three periods over the coming century: an early - century period 2011 to 2030, a mid-century period 2046 to 2065 and the late - century period 2080 to 2099, all relative to the 1980 to 1999 means.

The modest global warming seen to - date (around 0.13 degrees Celsius per decade) is likely to accelerate over the coming century - and models have even the US Corn Belt in the firing line.

How confident are scientists that Earth will warm further over the coming century?

With a significantly different orbital configuration over the coming centuries it can not be expected that the behaviour of the NAO and AMOC would be similar to that during the Last Interglacial.

But note guest post here, in which I raised concerns about economic growth rates in the face of Peak Oil and (later) Peak Gas over the coming century.

The IPCC report suggests that sea levels will rise somewhere between 0.18 m and 0.59 m over the coming century — hardly the sort of thing that will see skyscrapers swamped, islands sink or even low - lying poor cities inundated.