Sentences with phrase «significant amount of warming»

A significant amount of warming is natural, how about we split it 50 - 50 (fair enough?).

To avoid a significant amount of warming this century, he added, «you must cut emissions by a dramatic factor» — by ten or twenty times.

If emissions stay as high as they are, that means even a low value of climate sensitivity would see a significant amount of warming by the end of the century.

JTFs: The IPCC attribution statement is limited to the period since 1950 precisely because studies fail to attribute a significant amount of warming before then to anthropogenic forcing.

Still, given that the last decade has not seen a significant amount of warming (although any trend is swamped by noise), 20 years of little warming would give skeptics a little wiggle room.

Still, given that the last decade has not seen a significant amount of warming (although any trend is swamped by noise), 20 years of little warming would give skeptics a little wiggle room.

Human aerosol emissions are also offsetting a significant amount of the warming by causing global dimming.

During hot, humid cooling periods, leaky return ducts located in attics draw significant amounts of warm, moisture - laden air into the conditioned space from the attic, often creating moisture problems and increasing cooling loads.

Leaky return ducts located in attics draw significant amounts of cold air into conditioned spaces during the heating months, increasing heating loads and drawing significant amounts of warm, moisture - laden air into the conditioned space from the attic during cooling periods, increasing cooling loads.

Leaky return ducts located in attics draw significant amounts of warm, moisture - laden air into the conditioned space from the attic, often creating moisture problems and increasing cooling loads.

Not exact matches

This would mean significant change to the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and would slow down the rate of warming.

With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impacts.

«This research shows that the warming effects of both methane and hydrogen have been underestimated by a significant amount,» said Wordsworth.

So - called «convective» clouds are formed when there is a significant warming of the surface and a sufficient amount of moisture.

In a statement published after the experiment was completed, the Alfred Wegener Institute, where Smetacek works, said the results «dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming.»

Including the elevation effects in the model increases the estimated sea - level rise by a small but significant amount (5 % enhancement of melt by 2100 and 10 % by 2200 for a climate warming scenario).

It shows that changes in Earth's climate and sea level are closely linked, with only small amounts of warming needed to have a significant effect on seal levels.

Notice that there is a significant amount of variation between months, but that warm temperature records, and especially record high nighttime temperatures, outnumber the cold temperature records.

But unlike the lower glaciers, most of the high glaciers are located in very cold environments and require greater amounts of atmospheric warming before local temperatures rise enough to cause significant melting.

The Sun has both direct and indirect influences over the Earth's temperature, and we can evaluate whether these effects could be responsible for a significant amount of the recent global warming.

Breathing in cold, dry air forces your body to warm and humidify that air and with each exhalation, you lose significant amounts of water.

This process is part of what is called the «thermohaline» or «overturning» circulation and is associated with a significant amount of heat transport into the North Atlantic, which indeed keeps Britain and the rest of the North Atlantic region 3 to 6 degrees C warmer than they otherwise would be.

In addition that there are a significant amount of people who are using Global warming as an anti-capatalist anti-american agenda.

Pielke says the are a big deal, and he provides an analysis to suggest this accounts for a very significant amount of IPCC warming trend.

«But it has dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and thus mitigate global warming.»

And that some of that warming is due to man, maybe a significant amount.»

A one - degree global change is significant because it takes a vast amount of heat to warm all the oceans, atmosphere, and land by that much.

CO2 isn't harmful, it doesn't cause any significant warming of the atmosphere and in any case, the amount of emissions that we could actually cut wouldn't amount to a pinch of owl scat in the grand scheme of things.

So as long the liquid or solid of clouds were warmed more the 20 C, they could heat the air by some significant amount.

And, given the fact that the amount of kinetic energy needed to raise temps by 1C in the Arctic is far less than needed to raise by 1c at lower latitudes, is not the cooling far more significant than the warming?

The thing is that for the World Ocean to rise any significant amount then it would need all the frozen fresh water to melt, and even though the fear mongers keep saying this is happening, its not, JP Lovecraft was the flag bearer of the CAGW movement, he coined the word Gaia, he said that mankind would only be able to breed in those areas of the warm arctic and Antarctic, the rest of us would be dead, he said that and many other scaremongering things but close to the end of his life then he recanted it all, he said that «enough time had passed had passed for the models to be proved correct, and that all that the passing of time had proved was that all the models were not correct» me I think that he did not want to die with his horses still hitched to this faulty wagon.

This has been discussed on this very site, with a humorous example of its flaws being that applying it to a global data set (GHCN) instead of just one for the United States reverses the results, finding that adjustments reduce global warming by a significant amount.

Thus even if the satellite data showed say nearly 0.1 degC warming between 1979 to about 1996/7 (which is not statistically significant) then one would expect to see less than this amount of warming in the land based thermometer record if the warming is due to the GHE.

If global warming is real and significant and caused by humans burning oil, it seems to have a natural limit to the amount of damage that can be done (i.e., the amount of readily obtainable oil).

It is no surprise there is significant disagreement over the amount of warming estimated — as James Hansen and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies explain7, there is no clear definition of what we mean by absolute surface air temperature and wide variation in the estimated mean surface temperature of the planet.

If the oceans can sequester significant amounts of heat that would otherwise have warmed Earth and prevented «the pause,» the next questions are «how much» and «how long?

I am yet to hear scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.38 per cent) was increased, it could lead to significant global warming.

Or we talking dark light which has a small amount of ability to warm anything by any significant amount - such as more than moonlight.

The fact that organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the air.

A brief and simple explanation: Looking only at the tropical Pacific, a significant El Niño releases a vast amount of warm water from below the surface of the Western Pacific Warm Pool and it sloshes ewarm water from below the surface of the Western Pacific Warm Pool and it sloshes eWarm Pool and it sloshes east.

But if distribution systems leak significant amounts of gas, the warming effect of that methane could negate the benefit of switching off coal.

There will never have been statistically significant global warming is the last few years, because statistical significance is heavily dependent on the amount of data points and hence the length of the record you are trending.

32 32 Global Warming The manufacture and transportation of electronic products consumes significant amounts of energy, which creates climate - changing greenhouse gas emissions.

The warming Arctic could add significant amounts of methane gas to the atmosphere as permafrost melts and releases huge quantities of gas trapped in previously frozen ground.

My own belief is that mounting evidence of global warming is sufficient to justify using a significant amount of resources in an effort to reduce the rate of warming.

Because our excess heat is concentrated in what amounts to point sources, and those point sources are almost invariably located near to the temperature monitoring sites, you may want be a little kinder to Phillip and his opinion that waste heat accounts for a significant amount of our «warming» unless you have convincing evidence that the heat is dissipated so rapidly that its net effect is smaller than our ability to detect.

Previously reported discrepancies between the amount of warming near the surface and higher in the atmosphere have been used to challenge the reliability of climate models and the reality of human - induced global warming... This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and corrected.

If it is the Greenland icecap, a considerable amount of warming has to occur before any significant amounts of ice melts.

So for the world to warm by a significant amount [more than 1 C] one has to have the top surface of the ocean to warm.

With warming greater than 2 °C, there is a high risk of abrupt and irreversible changes to ecosystems such as forests, which would lead to «substantial additional climate change» considering that trees sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide.