Sentences with phrase «short term warming»

The two spikes around 1983 and 1993 were a consequence of volcanic eruptions injecting material into the stratosphere resulting in short term warming of the lower stratosphere.

It means less short term warming at the surface but at the expense of a greater earlier long - term warming, and faster sea level rise.

It is argued that the advantage of such a change would be to more rapidly reduce short term warming and buy time for CO2 reductions.

Statistical studies have debated the correlation between retreating Arctic ice and the negative NAO because it generates a confounding short term warming trend that is contradicted by the longer cooling trend suggested for the LIA as well as observed during the 1960s and 70s.

A huge amount of data representing 44 states and 101 reporting locations from the US shows we are in the middle of a «short term cooling period», the latest short term warming period having ended about 1998.

The spikes around 1998 and 2010 were a consequence of strong El Nino events releasing oceanic warmth to the air resulting in short term warming of the troposphere.

While the authors found decreases in radiation loss with short - term temperature increases, I find that the CMIP models exhibit an INCREASE in radiative loss with short term warming.

You can't predict weather, or even short term warming, but those aren't the only things to measure, and those things that are bigger than weather, longer term than decadal warming, they are profoundly important to the costs and risks we and our descendants will live with.

Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent of the country's total emissions of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much greater short term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far greater long - term punch).

Ministers from Canada, Russia and US join call to tackle black carbon and methane emissions to reduce short term warming

Finally, the current so - called pause in temperature increase covers a period starting with one of the two largest known El Nino (short term warming) events known, and ends with two large La Nina (short term cooling) events.