Sentences with phrase «significant local warming»

When the trees disappear from the outskirts of the forest, it creates significant local warming.

Not exact matches

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

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.

This is a view shared by Prof Peter Nienow, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh, who said: «The significant warming being seen in many places across the planet makes it unlikely that the recent warming reported in this paper is due just to local natural variability.»

The only significant atmospheric warming is where the local average air temperature is LOWER than 280K.

As described in the paper, climate warming specifically refers to the slow time evolution of the local July temperature as described by a smooth non-linear trend line, which reveals a significant climatic warming over the last three decades.

Perhaps Mr. Steele's strongest point is that the obsession with Global Warming will have an unfair impact on funding for local environmental projects as these efforts have had a significant and direct impact on the survival of plant and animal species.

As head of the nation's largest city, de Blasio is throwing significant weight behind a movement by local governments to directly target fossil fuel companies for the role their products play in fueling global warming.

And study authors found that 2 C to 5 C warming of local ocean waters with somewhat greater local air temperature increases was capable of flooding these basins in stages — forcing Totten's glacial ice to flow out into the Southern Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level rise.

Sort of like global warming: «generally» rising has local cooling (suggesting that, like glaciers, the LOCAL situation, like cloudiness / albedo / ocean currents) is the significant factor, and not an equally distributed, universal force (likelocal cooling (suggesting that, like glaciers, the LOCAL situation, like cloudiness / albedo / ocean currents) is the significant factor, and not an equally distributed, universal force (likeLOCAL situation, like cloudiness / albedo / ocean currents) is the significant factor, and not an equally distributed, universal force (like CO2)

However (and thankfully), abandoning old capitalistic and nationalistic get - rich - quick ideologies, collaborating on never - before - seen international levels for the purpose of achieving the greater good of humanity, and all of the adaptation strategies being adopted on local levels across the globe are among the significant positive effects of global warming on humans.

«In summary, our results emphasize the significant role of remote oceanic influences, rather than the direct local effect of anthropogenic radiative forcings, in the recent continental warming.

They found that «the Medieval Warm Period in AD 980-1250 is associated with a local maximum in δD, lending support for a significant warming during that time.»

However, on a more local level, global warming may have a significant impact, as original and newly introduced species spread faster from one place to another and take over new patches of habitat.

And again, the higher the thermometer climbs, the greater the possible disparities in the adaptive capacity of regions: ``... local warming of about 4 [degrees Celsius] and higher above pre-industrial levels is projected to result in differences between crop production and its population - driven demand becoming increasingly large in many regions (high confidence), thus posing very significant risks and challenges to food security.

Current warming is so fast that reconstructions are pushed to their limits... what?!?!? And this supposed unprecedented warming wasn't significant locally / regionally from 1980 - end of 2004, at least not enough to be captured by proxies... but, of course, operate under the assumption that all warming in the past was significant at the local / regional level and therefore captured by the proxies.