Sentences with phrase «predicted by climate»

If we were to stabilise CO2 levels at around 400 ppm, we'd expect over the long - term a further warming of 2 to 3 °C, which is significantly greater than the warming predicted by climate models.

Even though average global temperatures can certainly be lowered by feeding reflective particles into the stratosphere — we know this from observations of big volcanic eruptions — regional consequences can't yet be adequately predicted by climate models.

Corrections: Del Genio et al. (1991); Raval and Ramanathan (1989) found that satellite infrared measurements gave «compelling evidence for the positive feedback between surface temperature, water vapour and the greenhouse effect; the magnitude of the feedback is consistent with that predicted by climate models;» similarly, Rind et al. (1991), p. 500; Sun and Held (1996); and the final nail in the coffin, Soden et.

Thickening ice in Antarctica has been predicted by climate scientists for a long time, as a consequence of the greater moisture - carrying capacity of warmer air, so evidence for a thickening ice sheet would actually support, not negate, other evidence for global warming.

When even genuine climate scientists can not get a short article published, that tries make other climate scientists aware of data that might have a slightly negative effect on AGW theory (as in the CO2 warming might not be as bad as predicted by climate models), well, you know for certain that climate science is no - longer functioning as a science.

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»

Increasing storminess in the Arctic, predicted by some climate models, would speed up the release of methane, she says.

While few expect the pause to persist much longer, it has raised some questions about the growing divergence between observed temperatures and those predicted by climate scientists.

«The American public should be deeply troubled to learn that EPA is actively working to increase energy prices based on predicted global temperature increases without first undertaking efforts to determine if temperatures are actually increasing to the extent predicted by the climate models they are using,» reads the Senate Republicans» report.

As warming in the Arctic has been increasing as predicted by the climate scientists, I presume the HadCRUT temperatures are getting less accurate.

This figure indicates 3 things: (1) the time lag between emitting greenhouse gases and when we see the principle effect is about 30 years, due mostly to the time required to heat the oceans, (2) the rate of temperature increase predicted by a climate sensitivity of 3 °C tracks well with the observed rate of temperature increase, and (3) we have already locked in more than 1.5 °C warming.

Furthermore in contrast to researchers arguing rising atmospheric CO2 will inhibit calcification, increased photosynthesis not only increases calcification, paradoxically the process of calcification produces CO2 and drops pH to levels lower than predicted by climate change models.

Perhaps the real question is: why has it warmed so much less than was predicted by the climate models?

Not only are these short - term «pauses» just noise in the data, but observations show that they are entirley expected, and predicted by climate models (i.e. see Meehl el al. 2011).

Second, the «warming» from CO2 — and yes, CO2 is a «greenhouse gas» — has been much less than predicted by the climate models Obama bases his policies on.

«Absrtact: Wentz et al. (Reports, 13 July 2007, p. 233) present a satellite estimate of global - mean rainfall that increases with global warming faster than predicted by climate models.

There is no tropical hot spot as predicted by climate models.

This is roughly the rise predicted by climate change scenarios in which humans go on burning fossil fuels, to deposit ever more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

However, it permits the broad assessment of the entire spectrum of risks to key resources, and does not presuppose that the climate part of the risk can be skillfully predicted by the climate models.

The comparison of the temperature profile of the atmosphere to that predicted by climate models is a good effort, and the climate models have come up short.

In that decision, the court reported it was troubling that the Beringia population of bearded seals was listed as threatened simply based on threats predicted by climate models that would not manifest until the end of the 21st century.

As the globe has been experiencing record heat during the spring of 2010, floodwaters that have been predicted by climate change science are wreaking havoc in many locations world - wide.

The real issue that is of concern to me is the growing divergence between the the observed global temperature anomalies and what was predicted by climate models.

Additionally, the observed surface temperature changes over the past decade are within the range of model predictions (Figure 6) and decadal periods of flat temperatures during an overall long - term warming trend are predicted by climate models (Easterling & Wehner 2009).

In the future, Earth's plants should be able to successfully adjust their physiology to accommodate a warming of the magnitude and rate - of - rise that is typically predicted by climate models to accompany the projected future increase in the air's CO2 content.

«This introduces a large uncertainty in the degree of warming predicted by climate change models.»

In fact I have been crying GW for 15 years & attributing all sorts of harms to AGW (as predicted by climate scientists & their models to happen or increase over time).

Systems can switch from one state to another quite abruptly, and one might ask whether such sudden state changes are predicted by the climate models.

I think there is an important context here that is easy to lose in all of the emphasis on the thing that the trees don't appear to be doing well w / (i.e. the response to the high - frequency cooling events associated primarily with explosive volcanic eruptions): that's, the thing that the trees appear to be doing remarkably well with, i.e. capturing the long - term trends and low - frequency variability that is predicted by the climate model simulations.

It is also predicted by climate models in response to the rising greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere.

There will undoubtedly also be a number of claims made that aren't true; 2008 is not the coolest year this decade (that was 2000), global warming hasn't «stopped», CO2 continues to be a greenhouse gas, and such variability is indeed predicted by climate models.

These results confirm behaviour predicted by climate models showing that greater snow cover should occur in this ice sheet.

That is a pattern long predicted by climate scientists using computer simulations.

First, the fact that we Earth has previously experienced floods, severe weather and droughts in the past does not negate the dangers these events pose, nor the increased damages that will result from increasing frequency of these events predicted by climate models.

Indeed, though the current pattern of winter U.S. warmth looks much more like the pattern predicted by climate models as a response to anthropogenic forcing (see Figure below left) than the typical «El Nino» pattern, neither can one attribute this warmth to anthropogenic forcing.

However, satellite observations are notably cooler in the lower troposphere than predicted by climate models, and the research team in their paper acknowledge this, remarking: «One area of concern is that on average... simulations underestimate the observed lower stratospheric cooling and overestimate tropospheric warming... These differences must be due to some combination of errors in model forcings, model response errors, residual observational inhomogeneities, and an unusual manifestation of natural internal variability in the observations.»

Over the past two decades, the global warming predicted by climate models has mostly failed to materialize.

Past calculations of the cooling effect of aerosols have been inferred from «missing» global warming predicted by climate models.

«The scientific community is only beginning to understand what it would mean for global climate should this trend continue, as predicted by some climate models.»

Thus, the warmer springs predicted by climate change would mean an earlier firefly peak, but only if rainfall remains the same.

It was interesting to read about the outcomes predicted by climate models for the year 2100 based on crucial decisions...

Although global warming is likely to change the distribution of species, deforestation will result in the loss of more dry forests than predicted by climate change damage.

They also compare observed changes with those predicted by climate change studies and examine the reasons for discrepancies where they exist.

The wind speeds and directions predicted by the climate model explain phenomena such as the dominance of the seas by the Iron Fleet, the likely attack plans of invading dragon hordes from Essos, and the trading routes between Westeros and the Free cities across the Narrow Sea.

Not exact matches

But when asked by Sen. Bob Corker (R - TN) if human activity has contributed to climate change, Tillerson said that «the increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect,» and that «our ability to predict that effect is very limited.»

The warning comes after October's Stern review predicted the world economy would shrink by 20 per cent due to climate change if no action is taken now.

A new paper published by scientists in the Northeast finds that long - term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately predict and manage the effects of climate change.

While the 1st Congressional District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female voters.

They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.

Climate models predict that the hottest seasons on record will become the norm by the end of the century — an outcome that bodes ill for feeding the world