Sentences with phrase «rise over the coming century»

Meanwhile, a team of climate scientists who have been calculating how the pledges to cut emissions translate into temperature rises over the coming century, and were waiting for the final text to update their models, were left baffled.

When projecting how sea levels could rise over the coming centuries, one of the most difficult factors for scientists to gauge is how much of the Earth's vast ice sheets will melt, and how quickly.

«Climate models show that ice - sheet melt will dominate sea - level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice - sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary.

But how the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets respond to warmer temperatures is the biggest unknown by far in trying to predict how fast the waters will rise over the coming century and beyond.

One of the most devastating potential impacts of global climate change is a large global sea level rise over the coming century and beyond.

Not exact matches

But even if future sea level rise is slow, the cumulative effect will be significant over the coming centuries.

The strongest evidence for global warming comes from physics and chemistry, not from records of past temperatures, which is why scientists were predicting warming long before the rise in temperature over the 20th century was obvious.

They then looked at what that meant for the temperature rise over the coming few decades, and found that global warming this century will indeed be slower than thought.

SAN FRANCISCO — A giant tidal barrier stretched across the Golden Gate is among the adaptation remedies proposed by a Bay area nonprofit to cope with anticipated sea level rise caused by climate change over the coming century.

«The primary uncertainty in sea level rise is what are the ice sheets going to do over the coming century,» said Mathieu Morlighem, an expert in ice sheet modeling at the University of California, Irvine, who led the paper along with dozens of other contributors from institutions around the world.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Even if hurricanes change very little over the coming century, sea level rise means that storm surge events will be worse than they are today.

During this century, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the world emerged as reason rose to prominence over tradition, and the rights of the individual took center stage in philosophy and politics, a paradigmatic shift that would define Western thought for centuries to come.

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«suggesting that Arctic warming will continue to greatly exceed the global average over the coming century, with concomitant reductions in terrestrial ice masses and, consequently, an increasing rate of sea level rise.»

Global sea level rise is one of the most often cited potential large impacts of global climate change over the coming century.

This newly described mechanism, modeled in detail in a paper in Nature Geoscience, is the latest piece of evidence making a 3 - foot rise in sea - levels - over this coming century - increasingly certain.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

Over the next year or so I began to see fewer references from AGW supporters to the Industrial Revolution as a start point and more emphasis on the spread of industry in the early 20th century, until I came across anti arguments pointing out that after the rise of temps to the third and fourth decades the world began to cool again, considerably.

Controversial new research predicts that over the coming century, rising temperatures will result in more violent crime.

«This will eventually, over the coming centuries, lead to significant melting of the Greenland ice sheet and sea level rise with accompanying impacts on coastal regions» — if this was a court of law, which it isn't, someone would be jumping up and yelling, «objection».

(06/02/2013) Rainforests in South America have endured three previous extreme global warming events in the past, suggesting they will survive a projected 2 - 6 degree rise in temperatures over the coming century, reports a study published in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.

The IPCC report suggests that sea levels will rise somewhere between 0.18 m and 0.59 m over the coming century — hardly the sort of thing that will see skyscrapers swamped, islands sink or even low - lying poor cities inundated.

Even if we limit warming to 1.5 °C, as a number of low - lying island nations recently called for, sea levels will rise by two meters in coming centuries — with one meter rise by 2100 and up to five meters over the next 300 years.

Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450 — 600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry - season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the «dust bowl» era and inexorable sea level rise.

If this rate were maintained, the ice sheets would make a measurable but minor contribution to the global sea level rise from other sources, which has been 1 - 2 mm / yr averaged over the past century and 3mm / yr for 1993 - 2003, and is projected to average 1 - 9 mm / yr for the coming century (see IPCC Third Assessment Report).