Sentences with phrase «past warming events»

But the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.

But the paleoclimate record also reveals that the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.

6) The past warming events again seem to have been ignored.

This is now generally rejected as an explanation for sudden past warming events.

The fascinating thing that seems to be emerging is, as we look at... the 1,000 - year timescales going back to 183 million years, other past warming events where we get these black mudstones, we find that whatever the starting conditions, amazingly you get the same outcome.

And the answer every time appears to be, if you do this, if you keep on doing what we're doing now, we will repeat, in all essential details, the past warming event — at which stage geologists can take a really lofty view — which unless you've got grandchildren you tend to do — and you say, well, we don't care.

Not exact matches

As I've participated in conferences and events over the past couple years, I've noticed that some of the wisest and warmest people I've met have been Mennonites, so I've been trying to learn more about their theology and practice.

McGary made headlines this past weekend at Venice Beach while playing in the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Event, shattering the backboard with a powerful dunk during warm ups.

In the past two years, warm weather disrupted the tradition of playing on the lake, so the event was moved to Lippold Park.

She uses this knowledge of plants, and specifically their leaf waxes, to document past changes in plant life and rainfall patterns, including studies on the expansion of grasslands in Africa and the revegetation of Antarctica during a prior warming event.

In the interest of our future world, scientists must seek to understand the complexities of linked natural events and field observations that are revealed in the geologic record of past warmer climates.

In the past, major bleaching events were most likely to happen when El Niño brought bands of warmer water to the tropics.

«Our study is important because tropical cyclone intensity forecasts for several past hurricanes over the Caribbean Sea have under - predicted rapid intensification events over warm oceanic features,» said Johna Rudzin, a PhD student at the UM Rosenstiel School and lead author of the study.

«Petrenko and his co-authors studied a rapid warming event from the past that serves as a modern - day analog,» Sparrow says.

However, scientists say it is important to study the PETM because it is perhaps the best past event by which to understand the potential impacts of global climate warming seen today.

The authors write that their observation that the modern collapse of the LIS - B is a unique event supports the hypothesis that the current warming trend in the northwestern Weddell Sea is longer and bigger than past warm episodes.

A new study has found that Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals were able to survive past bleaching events because they were exposed to a pattern of gradually warming waters in the lead up to each episode.

For the first, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) used a statistical analysis of historic rainfall observations that looked at how the frequency of such an event has changed from the past, before a warming signal clearly emerged, to the present.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

«November is already off to a really warm start for much of the contiguous U.S. and Decembers tend to be very warm when we look at past strong El Niño events,» Crouch said.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

Flood defence plans based only on past events will become obsolete as our warming atmosphere delivers much more rain and much more often.

As temperatures continue to rise the corals will experience more and more of these events: 1 °C of warming so far has already caused four events in the past 19 years.»

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

I am not sure I understand Andy's question number (5), but «nature» involves many species: even if some parts of «nature» may survive global warming at the end (as parts of it have survived natural climate change events in the past), many parts of it are already going extinct and we are to blame this time around.

But given what I understand to be true, that greater warming has occured than in the distant past than is currently occurring, how can we be so sure we are examining all the right 20th century events, since these earlier warmings were clearly caused by events other than human driven carbon dioxide emissions?

The British Hydrological Society's Chronology of extreme weather events shows all too clearly that we have had (in the U.K.) much more severe flooding in Britain, and long before the recent warming trend set in, for centuries past.

Sarah Myhre is a climate and ocean scientist with expertise in marine paleoecological responses to past events of climate warming.

As a public scholar with expertise in paleoclimate science, I communicate alarming, difficult information about the consequences to Earth and ocean systems that have come with past events of abrupt climate warming.

From brand new «neutral» discussions that have concluded within a matter of weeks that global warming is real to Geological Society taking a stand that the current situation could be comparable to previous events in the past that were associated with periods of warming.

Ultimately, we show that present temperature abnormalities are given undue weight and lead to an overestimation of the frequency of similar past events, thereby increasing belief in and concern for global warming.

The warming is also consistent with climate sensitivities estimated from warming events in the historical past, and in the paleo record.

In summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changes.

What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if current warming is in line with what's repeatedly been experienced in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent, complex human society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion people.

In that event, in the past 15 years global warming at the Earth's surface has continued at the not particularly alarming rate of 0.116 K per decade.

The earth has been warming for at least 15000 years and will, based on past events, get much warmer before rapidly cooling down again.

How do we know what happened in the upper stmosphere in the past warming / increased CO2 events?

«Does the current global warming signal reflect a natural cycle»... We found 342 natural warming events (NWEs) corresponding to this definition, distributed over the past 250,000 years....

«Paul Ehrlich has never been able to learn from past experience,» he said, then launched into the Cornucopian line on the greenhouse crisis — how, even in the unlikely event that doomsayers are right about global warming, humanity will find some way to avert climate change or adapt, and everyone will emerge the better for it.

A cursory analysis of the past 10,000 years global reconstructions quickly shows that there has not been a single significant abrupt warming event.

Yes, global warming events have occurred naturally in the past, and sea level rose as a consequence, but that doesn't tell us anything about the causes of the current global warming.

I see very strong parallels with past global warming events and mass extinctions (Permian, Triassic, Toarcian, Cretaceous OAEs, PETM et al).

The link between adverse impacts such as more wildfires, ecosystem changes, extreme weather events etc. and their mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas emissions hinges on detecting unusual events for at least the past century and then actually attributing them to human caused warming.

- Notice, during the current cold phase, there has been permanent ice caps in Antarctica for only 10 million years and at the North Pole for less than 5 million years (demonstrating that ice caps are a rare event in Earth's history, which shows we are in a cold phase)- Notice that the planet has had no ice caps — therefore it has been much warmer than now — for about 80 % of the past 500 million years.

Over the past three decades, most natural disasters (90 %) have been caused by climate - related events, they say, and extreme climatic events are likely to become more frequent because of global warming.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

These spikey events seem more frequent, particularly in the past few decades as exponential changes in global warming finally have reached a tipping point.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday that past year was the warmest on record by a wide margin, stoked by greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather event that released heat from the Pacific Ocean.

Their two main results are a confirmation that current global surface temperatures are hotter than at any time in the past 1,400 years (the general «hockey stick» shape, as shown in Figure 1), and that while the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) are clearly visible events in their reconstruction, they were not globally synchronized events.

«During the past year, the American people have been served up an unprecedented parade of environmental alarmism by the media and entertainment industry, which links every possible weather event to global warming.