Sentences with phrase «said current warming»

And in a news conference here on Thursday, three panelists said the current warming was probably, but not certainly, beyond any peaks since the year 900.

Redmond said current warming trends could reduce the number of areas with microclimates favorable for future pinyon pine recovery, not if but when the next drought happens.

Not exact matches

Belgian international Vermaelen has been left to warm the bench for the best part of a year and is said to have told Wenger he wants to seek a move away at the end of the current campaign.

LONDON: Jurgen Klopp says his current Liverpool squad is the strongest he has ever worked with as the players prepare for a return to action after a warm - weather training camp in Spain.

«When the weather fluctuates between warm and cold and in bodies of water where there are currents underneath the ice, it can weaken the surface of the ice and make it dangerously fragile even though it seems to be frozen solid,» said Joe Pecoraro, manager of the Park District's Beaches and Pools Unit, who narrated the demonstration.

Mr Cable said he warmed to Browne's recommendation that higher earners pay a real interest rate on their tuition fee loans and no graduate should begin to start repaying until they earn # 21,000 (the current threshold is # 15,000).

Ocean currents bringing unusually warm water, for instance, could shift away more from Greenland, or move in closer, he said.

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

And the waters where those currents come from, those waters are getting warmer,» says Alek Petty, a climatologist on the Operation IceBridge team.

The significant difference in the results, Jahn said, might provide added incentive for countries to attempt to hit the 1.5 - degree Celsius warming target in order to preserve current ecological conditions.

The Pacific Ocean's current cool phase is driving the global warming slowdown — but that countering effect is not going to last, scientists say.

«Our current observations show that plants in Concord today are leafing out earlier than in Thoreau's time in response to warm temperatures,» she said.

But as the two shelves are on opposite sides of the peninsula and subject to different ocean currents, he says, «it was probably due to atmospheric warming».

Changes in ocean currents, Kennett says, triggered the methane bursts by channeling warmer water over continental slopes, as at Storegga.

But in the journal Science on Thursday, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, surveys the current research and concludes «it is safe to say that global warming will not lead to the onset of a new ice age».

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Having said all that,» said Larsen, «the current climate could slow down the advance of Yahtse or it could stop it a lot sooner than it would if we didn't have this warming trend going on right now.»

If it is permanent, «it is logical to suggest that the winds and ocean currents change accordingly and switch us into a new regime where heat is not buried so deeply, and we jump to the next level in global warming,» Trenberth said.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

«Even in this current warming climate, some mountains are so high that the temperatures are still below freezing, and the warming ocean may provide more precipitation to drive some of the glaciers to advance,» Batbaatar said.

According to current findings, we should expect both Arctic and Antarctic micro-organisms to react to global warming in the same way, the researchers say.

Researchers say global warming has produced stronger air currents that allow the birds to spend less time away from their nests, increasing the odds that their chicks will survive.

The unusual changes in currents may help explain how the larvae of the heat - loving creatures living around hydrothermal vents are dispersed through long stretches of near - freezing waters to reach other warm havens, says Adams.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

The effect is so strong, she said, that if Earth continues to warm at the current rate, the LC50 for one species she has studied, fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), will be only half as much in 2060 as it is now.

«In this region, the same [storms] that have driven increased snowfall inland have brought warmer ocean currents into contact with West Antarctic's ice shelves, resulting in rapid thinning,» said Thomas.

It's interesting that despite no apparent indication that plants are indeed making a net contribution to the current trend, we see articles like National Geographic's Plants Exhale Methane, Contribute to Warming, Study Says.

Instead, the report said, current highs appeared unrivaled since only 1600, the tail end of a temperature rise known as the medieval warm period.»

«Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM (Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum of 55 million years ago)», oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a professor of Earth science at Rice University and study co-author said.

Even if the rest of the year were simply average temperature-wise, 2015 would surpass the current record - holder of 1934 by 0.5 °F, she said, and with a strong El Niño in place, it's likely that temperatures will stay on the warmer side for the remainder of the year.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

and therefore to be able to make a stronger statement on how unique the current and apparently global warming related ice mass loss is» for Greenland, he says.

«What's especially concerning about this current northern fur seal crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions, such as these warmer waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist at The Marine Mammal Center.

2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, beating the current record set in 1998, say climate - change experts at the Met Office.

«The warming,» he says, «is primarily due to currents.

In context of current increased forcing and in consideration of all relevant natural and forced events and time scale, it is valid to say that this is expected in a warming world.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

Also, the idea is to keep warming below +1.5 ºC even with the current energy imbalance (warming in the pipeline) and reductions in aerosols that accompany emissions reductions (though Hansen says the impact of aerosols from fossil fuels was overstated and other manmade aerosols seem to dominate).

She also stressed that she sees no signs of current or imminent warming producing a great destabilization of permafrost in the Arctic: «You can't say in 20 years it will be 2 degrees warmer so permafrost will be thawing.

Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through, claim that the existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval Warm Period «was obviously warmer than the current climate (and by implication that human - caused global warming is not occuring).

That said, although I believe I understand what he is saying (and I agree with him regarding the confusion, lost credibility, and inaccuracies that often result when many current weather events are claimed to be a direct result of global warming), I have a few comments about some aspects of his recent post.

It's too soon to say whether the current «pause» in warming is anything more than statistics being clouded by one unusual El Nino event, but we should be thinking now about possible explanations just in case something more interesting is going on.

Skeptics say that submarine volcanism explains the current warming of the oceans.

Apparently the current belief (discussed starting on page 18, and like most such statements accompanied by a caveat that much more research is needed) is that the PDO itself is closely linked to global warming, which is to say we can expect it to spend a lot more time in the positive phase as global warming progresses.

Also, if we say we know what's causing current warming there's a lot of work to be done explaining model failure on predictions.

One could say too much extra heat at the earth surface will greatly excite the hurricane safety valve (maybe too much, too often) but not enough heat will be jettisoned to the troposhere and will remain to melt glaciers, warm air currents, disrupt preciptation patterns and, in general, muck up the system

[Response: And note that the abstract linked says «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

T 54: if we say we know what's causing current warming there's a lot of work to be done explaining model failure on predictions.

The same can be said about the inflow of warm saline waters of the NADC (north atlantic drift current, which is the extension of the Gulf Stream via the north atlantic current) into Nordic waters.