Sentences with phrase «rising concentrations»

Both trends are ultimately driven by rising concentrations of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In particular, the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the increased warming of the global climate system is more certain than ever.

If rising concentrations of atmospheric CO2 are having any impact at all, that impact is certainly not manifest in this record.

In computer - based models, rising concentrations of greenhouse gases produce an increase in the average surface temperature of the earth over time.

In particular, the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the increased warming of the global climate system is more certain than ever.

The ongoing warming trend — as well as the increasing frequency and severity of high - humidity heat waves — is ultimately driven by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.

Residential rents have more than doubled, and the report tracked rising concentrations of «high - end business» on Allen Street, Orchard Street, Houston and Delancey — areas now dotted with gallery spaces.

The original suggested onset was the end of the eighteenth century, when the European industrial revolution's large - scale coal - burning triggered rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This occurs because rising concentrations of salt, which increase the density of water, cause the body of water to sink and draw in water from adjacent areas, initiating a loop known as thermohaline overturning.

Rising concentrations mean rising temperatures.

Climate change caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing more extreme rainfall and snowfall — and floods

In other words: Proposed strategies to alter the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth's surface by (for example) deliberately injecting millions of tons of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere pose enormous risks and uncertainties and don «t address the underlying causes of global warming or other major risks from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, such as ocean acidification.

Judith I understand the APS actually wrote to IPCC questioning on what basis they determined that certainty of the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the increased warming of the global climate system is INCREASING.

Most discussions about adapting to inevitable climate change in a world with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases have focused on seawalls, drought - resistant crops and the like.

The statement also notes that, «The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has largely been caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions.»

«If you are a city or state with a rising concentration» of chain stores, or branches of existing businesses, «you see a faster decline in your startup rate,» says Litan.

We are witnessing the rising concentration and consolidation of our nation's wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

On one hand, rising concentrations of carbon dioxide can benefit trees and help them use water more efficiently.

Even China's efforts to combat those rising concentrations — in part by switching from burning coal to capturing the power latent in rivers like the Yangtze — falter in the face of global warming, as a result of less water in those rivers due to drought and the dwindling glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau.

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.

Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide — or CO2 — in the atmosphere tend to boost temperatures at Earth's surface.

By trapping heat, rising concentrations of atmospheric pollution are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt into seas, lifting high tides ever higher.

«The data... make it clear that rising concentrations of low - income households have depressed achievement more consistently in predominantly white communities in central and southern Illinois than in other parts of the State.

But there are vast volumes of studies concluding that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are already influencing the climate and will continue to raise the odds of fiercer floods, drier droughts and other disruptive changes, including a quickening pace of coastal retreats (and all as human populations soar in some of the world's most vulnerable places).

Original post On Tuesday, a simple but sobering note predicting an imminent end to measurements of carbon dioxide in air lower than 400 parts per million was posted by the group at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that has been carefully measuring the rising concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere since 1958.

For his part, Mr. Monckton says there is no need to exploit such events because he and others have exposed fatal weaknesses in the mainstream view that a strong warming effect is due to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide — regardless of the peer - reviewed, Nobel Prize - winning work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the conclusions of various national academies of science and 100 years of growing accord on the basics.

With the warming already committed in the climate system plus the additional warming expected from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Arctic will experience significant changes during this century even if greenhouse gas emissions are stabilized globally at a level lower than today's.

The pace of change has far exceeded what had been estimated by almost all the simulations used to envision how the Arctic will respond to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

Another, of course, is that the science illuminating the extent of the human influence on climate is not «settled» for many specific, and important, points, even though the basic case for rising risks from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is robust enough to merit a strong response, according to a host of experts (even if you take the intergovernmental panel's findings with a grain of salt).

My colleague Felicity Barringer has a story filling in a detail on the White House's refusal to accept the need for restricting carbon dioxide as a pollutant, even as President Bush and the administration have accepted, with ever more firmness, that rising concentrations of the gas are a serious problem and must be reversed (somehow, someday).

«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.

The take - home message, directly in sync with the core findings of the last two assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can be distilled to a fairly straightforward statement: Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will result in long - lasting warming that will progressively produce more harmful impacts on conditions and systems that influence human wellbeing.

Of course changes in global temperature year to year, even decade to decade, have little meaning in tracking a long - term trend like the impact on temperature of rising concentrations of greenhouse gases.

That takes the edge off of the atmosphere's rising concentration of CO2, but that same carbon dioxide, being dutifully dissolved into the sea, makes the ocean itself more acidic - and so less able to support marine life.

While it is worth continuing study of global climate engineering to control warming if the rising concentrations of GHGs can not be halted over the next several decades, the potential for climate engineering approaches to moderate impacts in the particularly exposed regions being affected merits investigation.

If a doubling of CO2 centred on values between low to pre-industrial leads to a smaller (relative) temperature response than doubling CO2 centred on the range between pre-industrial and current values — what does that tell us about future climate sensitivity — under ever - rising concentrations?

Rising concentrations of climate - altering carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have little to do with surging forest cover in some countries, according to a new study.

Mr. Clinton says his goal is to reduce the threat in coming decades of droughts, coastal floods, and famine from global warming — a warming of the atmosphere caused by rising concentrations of gases, especially carbon dioxide, released when fuels and forests are burned.