Sentences with phrase «regional warming comes»

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The researchers detected a «significant regional flux» of methane, a greenhouse gas with about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, coming from an area of gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania.

If the onset of maturity comes earlier in the season, it means that grapes ripen during a warmer period — affecting sugar levels, aromas and flavors and changing the unique identity that connoisseurs look for in regional wines.

While a strong El Niño and other climate patterns are playing a role in regional and global temperatures, the vast majority of the excess heat this year comes from manmade global warming, a Climate Central analysis showed.

In this regard, I would observe that at least one important AGW effect, rising sea level, does not depend on a specific regional outcome so much as on global mean T. (At least, I think this is so (because my understanding is that most of the rise comes from lower density of warmer water, not from melting ice sheets — though again, not 100 % sure on this point)-RRB-.

Pressing the frontiers of climate science and related research is vital, but it's wishful thinking to expect further science to substantially narrow uncertainties on time scales that matter when it comes to regional or short - term climate forecasting, the range of possible warming from a big buildup of carbon dioxide, the impact of greenhouse forcing on rare extremes and the like.

The climate scientists behind the report are less ready, however, to predict what the specific impacts of global warming will look like in the coming decades, meaning it won't be very useful for regional planners.

«With continued global warming, we're going to see more and more of these unprecedented regional conditions, and with them will come more and more costs to humans and the things they value.

«Marked periods like the warming anomaly in the Middle Ages or the small ice age come up on a regional level but don't show a single global picture,» said Heinz Wanner, the study's lead researcher.

The researchers cautioned that this extreme event provides a glimpse into the region's future as greenhouse gases continue to increase, and the signal of a warming climate, even at this regional scale, begins to emerge more clearly from natural variability in coming decades.