Sentences with phrase «rise of air temperature»

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Trump also downplayed the significance of rising global temperatures, which is likely to increase overall demand to power grids through increased use of air conditioning.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

This «punching down» is where the dough is deflated, thereby releasing the large air pockets formed during rising and evenly distributes the temperature and yeast throughout the mass of dough.

The air temperature had risen to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which kept most of the area's terrestrial denizens hiding in shade or below ground.

But climate models predict reductions in dissolved oxygen in all oceans as average global air and sea temperatures rise, and this may be the main driver of what is happening there, she says.

Many are poor with limited access to air conditioning and other infrastructure to combat the health risks of rising temperatures.

Rising temperatures, for example, could either increase or decrease biological productivity,» Salawitch says, as well as the emission of certain less - prevalent gases that are exchanged between the air and ocean.

Two of the chief culprits behind asthma and allergies — air pollution and smog — will only intensify as the temperatures rise.

This interplay between climate and wind can lead to sea level rise simply by moving water from one place in the ocean to another, said Greene — no warming of the air, or of ocean temperatures required.

Nathaniel Johnson and Shang - Ping Xie at the University of Hawaii studied satellite and rain - gauge data from the last 30 years and found that sea surface temperatures in the tropics now need to be about 0.3 °C higher than they did in 1980 before the air above rises and produces rain (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1008).

According to the historical temperature record of the last century, the Earth's near - surface air temperature has risen around 0.74 ± 0.18 °C elsius (1.3 ± 0.32 °F ahrenheit).

The researchers suspect that a rise in air temperatures of 3 °C in southeast Greenland caused the loss of ice.

This is the rise in air temperature expected by the year 2040, if current trends in the use of fossil fuels and forest - burning continue.

By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self - amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second - largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramatically.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

Every molecule of methane in the air has 25 times the effect on temperature rise compared to a molecule of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil or gas.

The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.

There are a variety of theories about how rising air temperature and altered precipitation patterns might affect these ecosystems in the future.

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere increase the temperature of air and water, which causes sea level to rise in two ways.

Simultaneous exposure to toxic air pollutants can worsen allergic responses.24, 156,25,157 Extreme rainfall and rising temperatures can also foster indoor air quality problems, including the growth of indoor fungi and molds, with increases in respiratory and asthma - related conditions.27, 28,29,30 Asthma prevalence (the percentage of people who have ever been diagnosed with asthma and still have asthma) increased nationwide from 7.3 % in 2001 to 8.4 % in 2010.

The research also supports a theory that a parallel pause in air temperature rise in recent years may result from storage of heat in the deep ocean.

The time lag occurs because rising air temperatures take time to make themselves felt throughout the immense thermal mass of the oceans.

The average daily air temperature in the Antarctic summer of 2013, when Goordial collected the permafrost samples which she tested both on the spot and later in the lab, was − 14 °C and it never rose above 0 °C, making the permafrost difficult to drill.

Embracing that shift should limit the amount of greenhouse gases in the air and stem the temperature rise.

Meanwhile, as oceans heat up, thermal expansion causes sea levels that are already rising from the melting of land ice (triggered by higher air and sea temperatures) to rise even more.

Strong temperature differentials between the stormy area and the region in front of the storm, can cause air to rise quickly, creating lots of friction and charge separation.

The Fourth Assessment Report finds that «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising mean sea level.

Rising ocean waters and air temperatures are essentially putting ice in a vise grip of warming and speeding up melt.

It protects you from the cool air that lingers while coming out of winter but doesn't make you too hot as the temperature rises.

Now, the temperature of the evaporator core rises proportionately as the temperature and flow of «hot» air across it.

While every driver knows how valuable air - conditioning is when the temperature rises, they are also aware that it can come at the cost of diminished fuel efficiency.

If the surrounding air is not considerably cooler than the animal's body temperature — as in the case of a hot, stuffy automobile — their cooling system will not work, their body temperature rises, and heatstroke can occur.

Air conditioning and a steady supply of cool water are always necessary, but rising temperatures...

She began this work in the spring of 2015 in the Doha and Gulf region where she was inspired by the massive city structures erected seemingly out of the sand and the scorching temperatures that made a hazy aura as heat waves rose through the air.

Our modelled values are consistent with current rates of Antarctic ice loss and sea - level rise, and imply that accelerated mass loss from marine - based portions of Antarctic ice sheets may ensue when an increase in global mean air temperature of only 1.4 - 2.0 deg.

First as the temperature gradient in the atmosphere increases, at a certain point the atmosphere becomes unstable (because rising (falling) packets of air do not cool (warm) fast enough by expansion (compression) to stop rising (falling)-RRB-.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

And all anyone here need do to refute me is explain how air conditioners that have been turned off can heat up a room (or if you prefer, cause the temperature of the room to rise).

Do you REALLY want to insist that those turned - off air conditioners could possibly function as a source of heat (or temperature rise) under such conditions and actually warm up that cold room?

The significant difference between the observed decrease of the CO2 sink estimated by the inversion (0.03 PgC / y per decade) and the expected increase due solely to rising atmospheric CO2 -LRB--0.05 PgC / y per decade) indicates that there has been a relative weakening of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink (0.08 PgC / y per decade) due to changes in other atmospheric forcing (winds, surface air temperature, and water fluxes).

http://climate.nasa.gov/news/1141/: «Norman Loeb, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, recently gave a talk on the «global warming hiatus,» a slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface air temperature.

Indeed, there is a clear physical reason why this is the case — the increase in water vapour as surface air temperature rises causes a change in the moist - adiabatic lapse rate (the decrease of temperature with height) such that the surface to mid-tropospheric gradient decreases with increasing temperature (i.e. it warms faster aloft).

While the rise in global mean surface air temperature has continued, between 1998 and 2012 the increase was approximately one third of that from 1951 to 2012.»

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.

«Even if an area remains wet doesn't mean that it will be protected from the other aspects of climate change: rising and far more erratic air temperatures, higher rates of evaporation (evapotranspiration), and the rising concentration of CO2,» he said in an e-mail message.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

IF the rise in temperature is caused by the radiative absorbtion by 390ppm of GHG (I agree), then the proposed increase in convective feedback is spread out over a MILLION ppm of air.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

The analysis concluded that without much stronger action to cut emissions both before and after 2020, «global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to concentrations equal or above 550 p.p.m. [parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air] with the related temperature» rising 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit.