Sentences with phrase «relatively modest warming»

For instance, even a relatively modest warming over the coming decades is very likely to have a meaningful effect on the timing and distribution of precipitation and evaporation rates, which will, in turn, have a substantial impact on freshwater supplies.

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«The increase in retail sales in June was relatively modest, given the temporary support to demand from the unusually warm weather,» Tombs wrote in an email.

This relatively modest release of CO ₂ might have contributed to long - term planetary warming.

I love that most of»em make a statement while being relatively modest, and I also appreciate that they keep me a little warmer and provide some added sun protection, depending on where I am.

If it hadn't been for that relatively short - term trend, no one would even be talking about global warming today, because there is nothing alarming about the very modest warming we've experienced since.

And while methane from Siberian lakes is a relatively modest contributor to climate change compared to human greenhouse emissions by industry and automobiles, it helps intensify a positive feedback mechanism for global warming.

Even before the recent global warming pause, temperatures were warming at a relatively modest pace.

The ice margin near Jakobshavn thus underwent large and rapid adjustments in response to relatively modest centennial - scale Holocene temperature changes, which may foreshadow GIS response to future warming.

«These results warn against drawing over-optimistic conclusions from the relatively modest loss of mountain plant populations likely to be observed during the coming decades», says Stefan Dullinger from the University of Vienna, «because the final consequences of climate warming on plant distribution in the Alps will only become realized with a delay of decades or even centuries.»

Global cooling could replace the modest warming that prevailed from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s and the relatively stable global temperatures of about the last 16 years.

On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?»

These are the «fast acting» efforts that can yield critical near - term reductions in warming while delivering substantial co-benefits that justify the relatively modest costs of mitigation.

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.