Sentences with phrase «scientists expect the increase»

Most scientists expect the increase in the number of strong hurricanes as the climate warms to be at the expense of smaller ones, meaning fewer overall.

Not exact matches

With the increasing presence and appropriate nurturing of such scientists, Singapore's venture capital industry can expect to achieve even greater heights.

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

So scientists and engineers in such fields can not expect to ever experience benefits of a shortage, such as increased income and bargaining power.

If global temperatures increase by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as many scientists expect, so - called «hundred - year - floods» could occur every 20 years or so, putting untold numbers of people at risk.

The scientists worked with model bacteria that are representative of the sort of microbial lifeforms that might be expected to have emerged on Mars and used a Raman spectrometer to track how the detectable signal from them changed with increasing exposure to radiation.

From the basic physics of the atmosphere, scientists expect that as the planet heats up from ever - mounting levels of greenhouse gases, net global precipitation will increase because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

The number holding non-tenure track positions (e.g., soft - money research faculty) has, meanwhile, increased 38.3 %, from 21,500 to 29,740.2 These data are sobering for young scientists who went into graduate school expecting to move into tenure - track positions when they emerged from their postdoctorates (or even sooner).

Expected outputs from such scientists might include increased quantity and quality of scientific publications, seminars, technical reports, and policy briefs, as well as mentoring of young scientists through PhD - level training.

With the world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, engineers and scientists are looking for ways to meet the increasing demand for food without also increasing the strain on natural resources, such as water and energy — an initiative known as the food - water - energy nexus.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

Regardless of whether participants said they accepted that human activity caused climate change, most recognized that scientists expect climate change to create serious environmental dangers, including increased coastal flooding.

In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

But scientists have also wondered whether this would lessen the risk of fire despite climbing global temperatures, because hotter weather would be expected to increase the fire risk.

Scientists expect emissions from the tropics to increase, unless we take action to restore forests, while slashing our own emissions.

Gore indicated that it is primarily Hurricane intensities which scientists largely agree should be expected to increase in association with warming surface temperatures, and specifically notes that

But since climate scientists already expect a wide range of negative consequences from rising temperatures, including higher sea level, more weather extremes and increasing risks to human health, anything that accelerates warming is a concern.

Scientists have had strong evidence for decades that fossil fuel emissions are increasing average global temperatures, and they have long expected that this warming would trigger extreme weather events.

Global ice - sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea - ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Clouds can increase warming in the changing Arctic region more than scientists expected, according to a new study published Dec. 10 in the journal Nature Communications.

But the burning of fossil fuels has caused a 41 percent increase in the heat - trapping gas since the Industrial Revolution, a mere geological instant, and scientists say the climate is beginning to react, though they expect far larger changes in the future.

climate scientists should not expect everyone to be as concerned as they are when they show a plot of increasing global temperatures.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2007)-- A team of scientists has found that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) growth has increased 35 percent faster than expected since 2000.

Scientists often talk about it in terms of the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), which is the long - term temperature increase that we expect from a permanent doubling of atmospheric CO2.

Scientists expect more intense storms to occur in the Midwest throughout the year, and more precipitation to fall in winter and spring.4 If our carbon emissions continue to rise at current rates, spring rainfall in Jefferson City is projected to increase 25 percent or more by the end of this century.9, 10

Despite this year's predictions for the Sierra, scientists are all but certain that California and the West can expect an increase in fire activity in both forested and non-forested areas.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

Each successive year will not necessarily be warmer than the year before, but on the current course of greenhouse gas increases, scientists expect each successive decade to be warmer than the previous decade.

C: increase in atmospheric CO2 from pre-industrial to present is anthropogenic (D / A) S: best guess for likely climate sensitivity (NUM) s: 2 - sigma range of S (NUM) a: ocean acidification will be a problem (D / A) L: expected sea level rise by 2100 in cm (all contributions)(NUM) B: climate change will be beneficial (D / A) R: CO2 emissions need to be reduced drastically by 2050 (D / A) T: technical advances will take care of any problems (D / A) r: the 20th century global temperature record is reliable (D / A) H: over the last 1000 years global temperature was hockey stick shaped (D / A) D: data has been intentionally distorted by scientist to support the idea of anthropogenic climate change (D / A) g: the CRU - mails are important for the science (D / A) G: the CRU - mails are important otherwise (D / A)

While CO2 is indeed a greenhouse gas, increasing concentrations of which may be expected to have (other things being equal) a warming effect, scientists disagree about how large that effect may be (this is particularly affected by ignorance of the effect of clouds).

Although climate models have been predicting increasing average global temperatures over the next century or so, the past decade has not shown as much warming as most scientists had expected.

This is expected to increase further going forward, as demand for meat, dairy products, and eggs is predicted by some scientists to double by 2050.

«In the event of continuously increasing emissions of carbon dioxide, as assumed in the least favorable scenario, scientists expect a rise in the global mean temperature by up to 4 °C by 2100.

The scientists say the largest increases in tropical cyclone potential intensity are expected to be at the margins of the tropics, particularly in the Atlantic and Pacific.

Scientists expect that as manmade carbon dioxide emissions increase, forests will absorb and store more carbon.

Climate scientists warn of wild weather in the year ahead as El Niño begins El Niño expected to increase drought, floods and other extreme events, and cause a hot summer in the UK John Vidal, environment editor theguardian.com, Monday 13 July 2009 16.30 BST

We can, the federal scientists say, expect an increase in bark beetles.

I am not a scientist, but I would not expect the atmospheric temperature to increase as much over El Nino as it would decrease over La Nina.

Even if the Antarctic were warming, most climate scientists expect snow and ice pack to increase there, not decrease.

The new findings are expected to help scientists improve existing computer models for predicting future climate change as increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere drive up Earth's temperatures globally.

In Fort Simpson, in the Northwest Territories, scientists expect permafrost to gradually disappear, given an increase of 3.6 ° F (2 ° C) in average annual air temperature.2, 3,18,19 In the Norman Wells region, such an increase would likely reduce permafrost coverage by about 50 percent.2, 3,19

Apart from black carbon, over-concentrations of nitrous oxide and methane also concern the scientists as the larger - than - expected concentration of both these gases can contribute to increasing the heat and thinning the ozone layer.

If that were true, on an issue such as global warming, about which scientists have a great deal of consensus, we'd expect citizens to come to agreement as their knowledge of the issue increases.

It reproduced a preliminary graph from a non-physical sciences group showing lower than scientific consensus estimates for temperature increase through 2100 and conflated it with an entirely Economist - manufactured news item erroneously stating scientists are finding climate sensitivity is lower than previously expected (Hint: it's not).

«As long as the scientists in the Siberian Arctic are not able to report very strong increases in submarine landslides and slope failures, I wouldn't expect that the release into the atmosphere is so severe that it is really very serious at the moment,» Schwark added.

In the next 80 years, scientists expect the region's average temperature to increase by 5 — 7F (2.7 — 3.9 C) due to human - caused climate change.

And rates are expected to continue increasing as global warming, which climate scientists agree is the result of greenhouse gas emissions, continues.

Penguin - chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina — a trend scientists attribute to climate change and expect to worsen throughout the century, a new study finds.

Climate scientist Kerry Emanuel describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change.

As an increasing cadence of storms with names such as Opal, Mitch, Allison, Ivan and Katrina have battered the Americas during the past decade, hurricane scientists have patiently explained that this was to be expected.