Sentences with phrase «pronounced global effects»

Heinrich events — abrupt periods of substantial iceberg discharge from the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets — occurred repeatedly throughout the last glacial period and had pronounced global effects on climate.

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Unfortunately, global financial markets are now undergoing a pronounced reduction in the bio-diversity of market service providers, with deleterious effects on market safety and soundness.

With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.

The findings back up a body of data suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

We predicted that an otherwise identical question would (i) elicit lower levels of existence beliefs when worded in terms of «global warming» rather than «climate change,» and that (ii) this effect would be more pronounced for respondents who self - identify as Republicans (as opposed to Democrats or Independents) for the reasons discussed above.

Are you aware of these allegations and do you agree that most of the adjustments to the temperature record have had the effect of making global warming appear more pronounced as the skeptics allege?

But global warming can have the more pronounced and immediate effect of exacerbating existing environmental threats to agriculture, many of which are caused by industrial agriculture itself.

The global warming folks would argue that the effect should be doubly pronounced, since they claim that we are seeing not just a general heating, but an increase in volatility (ie more extreme variation around the mean).

Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic Research Program, said the report highlights the clear and pronounced global warming signal in the Arctic and its effects cascading throughout the environment, like the spread of parasitic diseases in Arctic animals.