Sentences with phrase «rapid global warming»

Children born today will live through an era of rapid global warming in which the future of the climate no longer looks like the past.

When did you become convinced that greenhouse gas emissions from using fossil fuels for power generation is causing rapid global warming?

Not missing a beat, he began warning of the havoc rapid global warming might bring.

He's the author of three books and the famous target of climate deniers for his early recognition of rapid global warming dubbed «the hockey stick graph».

This was further evidence that the present rapid global warming is associated with anthropogenic increases in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It follows that 1992 - 1998 was not the most recent period of rapid global warming, but that very rapid warming was observed in the 15 - year period up to 2007.

The Earth's temperature, with rapid global warming over the past thirty years, is now passing through the peak level of the Holocene, a period of relatively stable climate that has existed for more than 10,000 years.

Such rapid global warming hasn't been seen since, although it's possible (probable?)

The warmers who want the funding to continue and the trading to proceed got a win, the NAS report is always cited for validating rapid global warming.

A vacillating global heat sink at intermediate ocean depths is associated with different climate regimes of surface warming under anthropogenic forcing: The latter part of the 20th century saw rapid global warming as more heat stayed near the surface.

The apparent attempts to cover up problems with temperature data from the Chinese weather stations provide the first link between the email scandal and the UN's embattled climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent decades.

Evidence is now overwhelming that massive output of greenhouse gases is DIRECTLY causing very rapid global warming at great economic cost.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, writes that the likelihood of such extreme heat waves «was negligible prior to the recent rapid global warming.»

A new study evaluating models of future climate scenarios has led to the creation of the new risk categories «catastrophic» and «unknown» to characterize the range of threats posed by rapid global warming.

Other researchers want to know how rapid global warming changed Patagonia's environment.

In the PR, I included a general comment that GHG emissions were the main cause of rapid global warming based on an enormous number of well documented reports and evidence.

Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks.

The difficulty in that is knowing when to stop as 80k - 100,000 years in the future, when do you stop artifical heating measures in response to rapid global warming enviable but exact date unknown?

«Climate dice,» describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons relative to climatology, have become progressively «loaded» in the past 30 years, coincident with rapid global warming.

The study noted that the same climate models the UN IPCC uses can only «explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well - documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past.»

I was pleased to read in your blog that at least some climate scientists are now worried enough about rapid global warming that they encourage investigation of «geoengineering» ways to cool the earth.

Wing, S. L., et al., 2005, Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Palaeocene - Eocene boundary, Science 310, 993 - 996; Zachos, J. Pagani, M.N., Sloan, L., Thomas, E., Billups, 2001.

The faux pause has nonetheless been used by political partisans like Senator Cruz to cast doubt on the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are causing rapid global warming, simply because they find the political implications of that scientific reality inconvenient â $» to their ideological views and the views of the special interests who fund their campaigns.

«The study found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well - documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past.

They've gathered data they say shows that the 2011 Texas and Oklahoma heat wave — as well as a deadly Moscow heat in 2010 — were «a consequence of global warming because their likelihood was negligible prior to the recent rapid global warming.

But some scientists believe that the current period of rapid global warming may disproportionately affect cold - blooded animals, as well.

«Hydrological implications of rapid global warming.»

The rapid global warming event, ~ 56 million years ago, known as the «Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum» or PETM has provided such insights.

Researchers studying a rapid global warming event, around 56 million years ago, have shown evidence of major changes in the intensity of rainfall and flood events.

Emotions had been running high even before Monday's news release over the future of one of the world's great natural wonders amid a two - year period of rapid global warming.

The volcanic activity caused high levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which led to rapid global warming.

Despite the rapid global warming since 1977, this subject remains politically contentious.

Around 14,000 years ago (about 13,000 radiocarbon years ago), there was a rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades.

at NCDC) when extended 1,000 years out = 20 Deg C, which would be around 4 times the rate of warming which took place during the especially intense period of rapid global warming for the first 1,000 years of the PETM.

When did you become convinced that rapid global warming was happening?

Scientists have studied extensively the the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), about 56 million years ago, a period of rapid global warming that's associated with a temperature spike on par with expectations for today's global warming scenarios.

While the outlook for reefs in the fact of today's rapid global warming is exceptionally serious, the authors provide remedial options for management interventions that will increase reef resilience, including: a) reduce the harvest of herbivorous fish to sustainable levels, b) protect sharks and other top predators, c) manage all aspects of water quality, and d) diminish direct anthropogenic impacts and stressors.

«The strongest evidence for this is the record of satellite measurements of solar output since the late 1970s that show no increasing trend in solar output during a period of rapid global warming.»

A major difference between the PETM (Natural) and present (Anthropogenic) global warming is that the former was likely initiated by increased exposure to solar radiation causing carbon feedbacks and rapid global warming.