Sentences with phrase «small changes in temperature»

«Plants are highly sensitive to environmental changes and even small changes in temperature impact on their growth,» he said.

The same small change in temperature, however, would reduce food production at lower latitudes, where many countries already face food shortages.

«Even relatively small changes in the temperature and water content of the magma can drastically alter the chemical and physical properties of the unerupted magma,» explained lead author Dr. Mike Cassidy from the Institute of Geosciences at Mainz University.

The net result of this new version of GHCN - M reveals very small changes in temperature and ranks.

Even small changes in temperature cause significant changes in its viscosity, or thickness,» says Kim.

Gething, one of the authors of the paper, said that the purpose was to show that the issue is not about small changes in temperature and its resultant effects, but about the more potent effects of climate change.

Epstein and Ferber describe how small changes in temperature can lead to large changes in malarial dynamics.

Seasonally snow - covered regions are especially susceptible to climate change as small changes in temperature or precipitation may result in large changes in ecosystem structure and function.

That may not sound like much, but the temperature difference between today's world and the last ice age was about 5C, so seemingly small changes in temperature can mean big differences for the Earth.

Rising temperatures have a larger effect at locations and elevations near the freezing level where small changes in temperature can determine whether snow packs melt and whether precipitation falls as rain or snow.

Scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have identified a mechanism that allows cells to adapt their gene expression program to very small changes in temperature.

«Even small changes in temperatures can affect our physiology significantly without shivering, without too much sweating and things like that,» said van Marken Lichtenbelt, who was quick to add that diet and exercise were still undoubtedly the best ways to get fit.

It's fascinating what a small change in temperature can do.

Small changes in temperature can push them over the edge.»

Even a small change in temperature or humidity can radically alter the shape and size of a snowflake, making it notoriously difficult to model these ice crystals on a computer.

What is entirely possible is the weather itself and rates of ice collapse could be much more sensitive to even small changes in temperature, so low or medium climate sensitivity, than we thought.

In my opinion because we can not possibly measure that small a change in temperature the global warming benefit of this program is nil.

Also, trees are impacted much more by moisture regimes than small changes in temperature.

The fact is that small changes in economic growth rates have a much, much greater effect on human well - being than small changes in temperatures: (HT to Tom Nelson, who is trying to make himself the Glen Reynolds of global warming skepticism.)

Amphibians are extremely sensitive to small changes in temperature and moisture.

A small change in temperature can really disrupt the systems we depend on to survive.

Essentially what this means is that those areas currently identified by their warm, humid climate will be particularly affected by a seemingly slight change in climate; these regions are disproportionately impacted by even the smallest changes in temperature, and the population will most likely be especially disturbed by future climate change.

This led to an increase in CO2, resulting in further warming that caused more CO2 to be released and so on: a positive feedback that amplified a small change in temperature.