Sentences with phrase «rapidly warming land»

In addition, warmer waters are pouring in from rivers in rapidly warming land regions of Alaska, Canada, and Russia, also increasing sea temperatures.

I would have thought that was a more reasonable view than a large coincidental natural fluctuation that somehow also more rapidly warmed the land, removed Arctic sea ice and raised ocean heat content while giving us the warmest decade on record.

Not exact matches

Just how rapidly the oceanic heat will resurface to warm the land is «something that we struggle with,» said Scripps's Gille.

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans.

About 15,000 years ago, as rising seas submerged the land bridge and a warming trend began to melt the glaciers covering North America, people swept rapidly into both North and South America.

The observed fact that temperatures increases slower over the oceans than over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air over the ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.

Combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas, and to a lesser extent deforestation, land - cover change, and emissions of halocarbons and other greenhouse gases, are rapidly increasing the atmospheric concentrations of climate - warming gases.

bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.

** We note, however, that the atmosphere, both over land and ocean, did not warm during this same post-1978 period — even though atmospheric theory and every climate model predicts that the tropical atmosphere should warm nearly twice as rapidly as the surface.

In Northeast Land and Svalbard, the melting waters on the ice caps are the tears of the Earth mourning the future death of men and civilizations as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spikes and global warming proceeds rapidly, killing millions of marine organisms, and increasing the acidification of the oceans.

-- denying that the tropospheric land and sea temperature anomaly (UAH) has warmed more slowly than that at the surface (HadCRUT3)(although it should warm more rapidly according to the GH theory) and even stating exactly the opposite

Now, fires are starting to flare around this broad stretch of once - frozen lands rapidly warmed by an unprecedented belching of heat - trapping gasses into the Earth's atmosphere.

How to Lie With Data (or, «Melting Away Global Warming») New Observations Confirm Greenland, Antarctica Losing Land Ice Rapidly The Top of the World Sinks Ever Lower New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault Slaying the Zombie Ideas of Climate Change Denial

While this is categorically false (the last decade was the warmest on record and 2005 and 2010 are generally considered tied for the warmest year), scientists do admit that warming hasn't occurred over land as rapidly as predicted in the last ten years, especially given continually rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming, increasing aridity and rapidly expanding human population will lead to drylands covering half of the Earth's land surface by the end of this century.

Atmospheric cooling, in this case, that would occur in isolation and in the context of a broader and rapidly warming global climate system together with a dangerous warming of the land ice sheets.

There are also of course many «natural thermometers» confirming the warming of the globe - rapidly rising seas, melting sea ice, melting land ice, etc. (Figure 1).

Modelled surface air temperature increases in all regions and seasons, with most land areas warming more rapidly than the global average (Giorgi et al., 2001; Ruosteenoja et al., 2003).