Sentences with phrase «rapid rate of global warming»

If that theory is true, and if a major El Niño is indeed in the works, the previously rapid rate of global warming could resume, with dramatic consequences.

• Also, the unusually rapid rate of global warming we are causing will make it very difficult for ecosystems — not to mention humans — to adapt.

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This represents a return to the rapid rates of global surface warming — around 0.2 °C per decade — last seen in the 1990s.

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.

As an academic and historian reminded me recently, the core cause of a host of current concerns, from global warming to epidemic disease to hunger and tribal warfare, is that the population of the world continues to grow at a rapid rate.

Brooke C. Medley, a postdoctoral fellow with NASA who contributed to one of the new papers on Antarctic ice loss, said the findings demonstrate that the planet's large ice sheets, which were once thought to be stable, are responding to global warming and other influences at a rapid rate.

A future resumption of global warming at pre-pause rates — or even modestly accelerated rates — would not validate IPCC global warming predictions, and would instead continue to undermine the IPCC's predictions of very rapid 21st century global warming.

The previously unexplained differences between model - based forecasts of rapid global warming and meteorological data showing a slower rate of warming have been the source of often contentious debate and controversy for more than two decades.

Global warming must be the primary cause of glacier retreat, which is occurring on a global scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be invGlobal warming must be the primary cause of glacier retreat, which is occurring on a global scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be invglobal scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be involved.

A (2) Modern warming, glacier and sea ice recession, sea level rise, drought and hurricane intensities... are all occurring at unprecedentedly high and rapid rates, and the effects are globally synchronous (not just regional)... and thus dangerous consequences to the global biosphere and human civilizations loom in the near future as a consequence of anthropogenic influences.

The actual amount of emissions reductions that are needed between now and 2020 is somewhat of a moving target depending on the level of uncertainty that society is willing to accept that a dangerous warming limit will be exceeded, the most recent increases in ghg emissions rates, and assumptions about when global ghg emissions peak before beginning rapid reduction rates.

The incredibly rapid rate at which Canada's Arctic ice shelves are disappearing is an early indicator of the «very substantial changes» that global warming will impose on all mankind, a top scientist said on Wednesday.

In addition to this rapid surface warming, the global oceans have also been accumulating heat at an incredible rate - the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a the past half century.

We assume that Chylek (2008) is right to find transient and equilibrium climate sensitivity near - identical; that allof the warming from 1980 - 2005 was anthropogenic; that the IPCC's values for forcings and feedbacks are correct; and, in line 2, that McKitrick is right that the insufficiently - corrected heat - island effect of rapid urbanization since 1980 has artificially doubled the true rate of temperature increase in the major global datasets.

In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.