Sentences with phrase «response to rising temperatures»

Currently, rising CO2 levels are driving global warming, but in the past CO2 levels have naturally risen in response to rising temperatures.

There's also the mental and physical responses to rising temperatures, which need further scientific investigation.

The team also found that soil microbes in experimental warming studies showed no sign of adaptation — meaning a muted respiration response to rising temperatures — in all of the biomes studied, except desert and boreal forest.

Land ice — glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets — is shrinking at a faster rate in response to rising temperatures, adding water to the world's oceans.

Trees may grow faster in response to rising temperatures and the fertilising stimulus of more available carbon dioxide, but if the lifespan shrinks as a consequence, any gain will be shortlived.

11 February, 2017 — The production of artificial snow that heats buildings is Norway's response to the rising temperatures that threaten the country's favourite sport.

Heat makes tire blowouts more common (the air inside the tires expands in response to rising temperatures), which can cause a rollover.