Sentences with phrase «rate of global warming»

I happen to believe that man's interference and use of carbon emissions is directly related to the increased rate of global warming.

But a new study suggests that targeting such emissions in the next couple of decades may not help reduce rates of global warming as much as we thought.

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

Even with the rapid rate of global warming, it will still be cold enough in winter to snow in most places where that has historically been the case.

For years now, reputable scientists have debated the exact rate of global warming since 2000, a micro-level disagreement that hinges on variables as esoteric as the historic reliability of thermometers.

And although our current rate of global warming worries many scientists, it's also a warming we know a lot more about, can adapt to reasonably well and can predict with reasonable accuracy.

The atmosphere in the polar regions has warmed at about twice the average rate of global warming with Arctic coasts experiencing a rise in the occurrence of storm surges.

Climate models used by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others predicted accelerated rates of global warming.

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

Climate change has occurred repeatedly throughout Earth's history, but the recent rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episode in the past 10,000 years or longer.

Reducing emissions of soot from vehicles and methane from pipelines may not help reduce rates of global warming as much as earlier studies have suggested, new research suggests.

If you're referring to modern sensitivity, Steven, I would agree because it is so strongly influenced by the high rate of global warming, creating a huge gap between theoretical and observed sensitivity.

That is roughly twice as much as scientists previously thought and three times the overall rate of global warming, making central West Antarctica one of the fastest - warming regions on earth.

reality check — as an observation, there is so much effort spent on the finer details of temperature record manipulation of national record databases, that actually the the basic argument is: how does co2, which is.035 % of the atmosphere, cause such an alarming rate of global warming?

«Data from the Met Office shows that the long - term rate of global warming has now returned to the level seen in the second half of the 20th century.»

Some models project a faster rate of global warming than others, but it is not yet clear whether this involves systematic differences at the regional scale.

A recent study (pdf) estimated that at the current rate of global warming, Manhattan will face a sea level rise of 2 feet or more by 2080.

Joeri Rogelj, a climate scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, says that only in recent years have reducing methane and soot been touted as measures to help reduce rates of global warming; previously, they've been looked at as ways to improve health by reducing inhalation of small particles or trimming levels of ozone.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

«The unprecedented rate of global warming is melting the polar ice caps, raising sea levels and undermining food and water security for many of the world's peoples.

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.

Most of the current discussion focuses on what can be done to reduce the rate of exhaustion of limited resources, the polluting of air, water, and soil, and the rate of global warming.

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

The rate of global warming has slowed — but why?

NOAA has been the target of congressional scrutiny from Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who has launched an inquiry into a 2015 paper in Science prepared by NOAA researchers that disputed the existence of a recent slowdown in the rate of global warming.

«The use of cleaner ship fuels will increase the rate of global warming by about 3 percent,» said FMI senior scientist Mikhail Sofiev, who led the climate related research.

In June 2015, NOAA researchers led by Thomas Karl published a paper in the journal Science comparing the new and previous NOAA sea surface temperature datasets, finding that the rate of global warming since 2000 had been underestimated and there was no so - called «hiatus» in warming in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.

With these scenarios in mind, the researchers identified what measures can be taken to slow the rate of global warming to avoid the worst consequences, particularly the low - probability high - impact events.

Mixotrophs, tiny sea creatures that hunt like animals but grow like plants, can change everything from fish populations to rates of global warming

The scientists then ran two separate climate models to learn how the rate of global warming might change if the 16 measures were deployed, with and without carbon dioxide controls.

«After 2030, the rate of global warming is likely to be so fast that even large volcanic eruptions on the scale of Krakatoa are unlikely to drive a hiatus decade,» says England's colleague, Nicola Maher.

As it does, it could release tons of additional methane gas, which has 20 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, possibly increasing the rate of global warming.

Any remaining differences may be explained by the recent temporary fluctuation in the rate of global warming.

'' [Question] Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860 - 1880, 1910 - 1940 and 1975 - 1998 were identical?

Major climate data sets have underestimated the rate of global warming in the last 15 years owing largely to poor data in the Arctic, the planet's fastest warming region.

What I'm confused about is that I'm under the assumption that the rate of global warming is increasing at a faster rate but Jones figures indicate they've been pretty even.