Sentences with phrase «relatively mild warming»

But the authors of the new study — published today in the journal Nature — say the relatively mild warming could have outsized impacts on cold - blooded species that live near the equator.

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It was a relatively inexpensive winter for heating in central North America, with mild temperatures reducing the need to warm our houses, but the mild, fluctuating temperatures will cause butterflies to suffer severe energy shortages this spring.

The Netherlands» temperate maritime climate isn't given to extremes of temperature; summers are warm and winters are mild and whilst rainfall is relatively evenly spread throughout the year it is most common in late summer during July and August.

SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers.

Still, he says it'll be a relatively mild winter, compared with La Nina winters of years past, because the climate overall is warmer now.

For the northeast, that means relatively little snow, compared to what they usually get, and a warmer, milder winter.

«Some reduction in the risk of death related to extreme cold is expected... the reduction in deaths as a result of relatively milder winters attributable to global warming will be substantially less than the increase in deaths due to summertime heat extremes.»

For us that means relatively little snow compared to what we usually get and a warmer, milder winter.

For instance, the relatively snowless and mild winter in the U.S. of 2011 - 12 resulted from an inversion of the jet stream; its «U» course though the North America flipped upside down, trapping warm air over much of the central and eastern U.S.

The presence of this warm water in the North Atlantic helps explain why Scotland has a relatively mild climate when compared to places at similar latitudes in North America such as Churchill, Manitoba — a Canadian town famous for its seasonal polar bear population.

From about 1999 to 2003, the outbreak was primarily confined to Canada's Vancouver Island, but during 2004 to 2009, instances of the disease spread to the mainland coast of British Columbia, and then southward to coastal Washington and Oregon — all locations with a relatively similar climate of wet, mild winters... If global warming were to blame, the disease ought to be moving northward into regions where it would have otherwise been too cold in years past.

Such weather patterns, which can feature relatively mild conditions in the Arctic at the same time dangerously cold conditions exist in vast parts of the lower 48, may be tied to the rapid warming and loss of sea ice in the Arctic due, in part, to manmade climate change.

When this is done, people usually find that while it was relatively cool in global mean temperatures from the 1400s to the 1800s known as the «Little Ice Age» and relatively mild in the 900s to 1300s interval (sometimes termed the «Medieval Warm Period»).

If the recent lower estimates of climate sensitivity are correct and emissions follow a relatively low path, warming will likely be modest and its effects mild.

In the meantime, Iceland and Greenland have enjoyed relatively mild weather, so we can not simply conclude that the northern hemisphere winter is cold and that this therefore puts in doubt the generally - accepted global warming trend.

In the Rockies and along the west coast, however, the relationship is weak, and some stations even exhibit the opposite relationship, i.e., a relatively warm Arctic favors milder winter weather.