Sentences with phrase «slow response to warming»

No matter how well the world controls emissions of greenhouse gases, global climate change is inevitable, warn two new studies which take into account the oceans» slow response to warming.

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Despite slower temperature shifts in ocean waters, ocean life from plankton to fish have begun moving in response to global warming

A four - degree - warmer world will therefore demand a range of responses, from immediate and bold to slow and cautious.

«We found compelling evidence that invasive shrubs, such as Japanese barberry, are ready to leaf out quickly once they are exposed to warm temperatures in the lab even in the middle of winter, whereas native shrubs, like highbush bluberry, and native trees, like red maple, need to go through a longer winter chilling period before they can leaf out — and even then their response is slow,» says Amanda Gallinat, a second - year graduate student and third author of the paper.

Model studies for climate change between the Holocene and the Pliocene, when Earth was about 3 °C warmer, find that slow feedbacks due to changes of ice sheets and vegetation cover amplified the fast feedback climate response by 30 — 50 % [216].

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

With this prediction, and the trend toward the slowing down of the jet stream, is it time to consider / advocate geoengineering as a response to global warming?

In response to your request, here is another specific suggestion for slowing down global warming.

The good news: Because black carbon stays in the atmosphere for only days or weeks, moving quickly to expand existing technology can be an effective rapid response to slow warming, buying critical time to achieve reductions in CO2.

If I understood Armour's paper correctly, he claimed that all feed - backs were close to linear in response to temperature over time, but that different regional warming rates (specifically, slow warming at high latitudes) could make the feed - backs and sensitivity appear to increase with time.

DK12 used ocean heat content (OHC) data for the upper 700 meters of oceans to draw three main conclusions: 1) that the rate of OHC increase has slowed in recent years (the very short timeframe of 2002 to 2008), 2) that this is evidence for periods of «climate shifts», and 3) that the recent OHC data indicate that the net climate feedback is negative, which would mean that climate sensitivity (the total amount of global warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels, including feedbacks) is low.

«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»

Meehl et al., 2004 found that «By far the largest temperature response is to the GHGs in Fig. 1e, with slow warming occurring in the first half of the twentieth century up to about.

A dynamic eco-evolutionary model predicts slow response of alpine plants to climate warming.

Rob P @ 6 - yes, the quote from Trenberth in the OP is in response to Annan saying that warming has slowed over the past decade.

Dana:... quote from Trenberth in the OP is in response to Annan saying that warming has slowed over the past decade.

In contrast, the 1000 GtC scenario, although nominally designed to yield a fast - feedback climate response of ∼ 2 °C, would yield a larger eventual warming because of slow feedbacks, probably at least 3 °C.

There are a number of global warming objections that the data must be wrong attributing differences to slow sensor response etc..

Model studies for climate change between the Holocene and the Pliocene, when Earth was about 3 °C warmer, find that slow feedbacks due to changes of ice sheets and vegetation cover amplified the fast feedback climate response by 30 — 50 % [216].

It has a slower response time like a storage heater but once it gets to a certain temperature, it stays warm.»

The MWP is better explained by the Arctic Amplification effect whereas northern hemisphere warming is amplified due to faster thermal response to climate forcing due to greater land mass and less ocean mass; compared to the southern hemisphere which is largely water (which has a slower thermal inertial response to climate forcings).

Recently there have been some studies and comments by a few climate scientists that based on the slowed global surface warming over the past decade, estimates of the Earth's overall equilibrium climate sensitivity (the total amount of global surface warming in response to the increased greenhouse effect from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) may be a bit too high.

The relatively slow response of glaciers to global warming means it will take to the end of the century — and beyond — to see the benefits of mitigation efforts in the coming decades, the study says.

(2) A steady ongoing ice loss from ice sheets is added in — this has nothing to do with modern warming but is a slow response to earlier climate changes.

For the ice sheets the answer is probably no (but experts on the subject might have a better idea), but for the overturning circulation or the ecosystem changes, the answer is probably yes — i.e. a slower rate of warming could lead to a different response (allowing time for ocean mixing to mitigate the effects, or adaptation of species to the new conditions).

Fast and Slow Responses to Global Warming: Sea Surface Temperature and Precipitation Patterns The deep ocean warming retards the surface warming in the fast response but turns into a forcing for the slow respoSlow Responses to Global Warming: Sea Surface Temperature and Precipitation Patterns The deep ocean warming retards the surface warming in the fast response but turns into a forcing for the slow reWarming: Sea Surface Temperature and Precipitation Patterns The deep ocean warming retards the surface warming in the fast response but turns into a forcing for the slow rewarming retards the surface warming in the fast response but turns into a forcing for the slow rewarming in the fast response but turns into a forcing for the slow resposlow response.

Imagine that the response of bristle - cone pines to temperature has a peak, i.e. it does not track temperature monotonically, but has a temperature with a maximum growth rate, then beyond that it slows down again (maybe it is too warm for the pine trees or something like that).

These gradually increase with time, then slow to 0.008 °C yr − 1 after the total increase exceeds 4 °C and the maximum tolerated warming is 4.5 °C assuming massive societal response to large changes (similar to the «backstop» technology deployed in DICE for large temperature changes).

The North Atlantic warms in a few months in response to an El Niño, through changes in atmospheric circulation (slower trade winds in the tropical North Atlantic, for example).