Sentences with phrase «smaller warming response»

The climate models with the mixed layer oceans underestimate both the subtropical low cloud cover and the high - latitude sea ice / surface albedo, and consequently have a smaller warming response to OHT.

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Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, said it is an «interesting paper» that shows that thinning has started in a region thought resistant, in response to warming that is much smaller than what is projected for the future.

Though Kolbert's choice of subject is occasionally debatable — she devotes six pages of a slim book to a small mosquito whose DNA has mutated in response to warming — the details she amasses drive home her message: The world is changing fast.

Sex differences in heat loss responses are dependent on body size and not sex, meaning that larger individuals sweat more than smaller ones during cycle exercise in warm and tolerable conditions.

(page 4): «The solar forced run exhibits a larger precipitation response per degree of warming than the CO2 forced run, as expected from the theory outlined earlier in this section, even though the precipitation response [note: this must be the temperature response] per unit forcing is smaller than for CO2.»

The discovery of other, smaller magnitude, rapid greenhouse warming events (called hyperthermals) in the millions of years following the PETM provides further opportunities to examine the response of organisms to global climate change.

So, the small reduction in warming in 2100 is fully expected and compatible with standard climate sensitivity arguments, but the statement that the same physics accounts for the Maunder Minimum response is not.

If so, I presume this article means that it could happen again in response to anthropogenic warming but not in the small number of years that some fear — i.e. it would take thousands of years, and we won't all be cooked to extinction by the end of the decade.

One of the things that people (particularly from an engineering background) have trouble with is the idea that the feedback from a small amount of warming can give rise to a much larger amount of warming, and this seems, from an «enginering perspective» on the meaning of «feedback», to result in an uncontrolled «runaway» response.

Paul S (# 1)-- Since the Planck Response dominates over positive feedback responses to temperature, wouldn't a La Nina - like failure of surface temperature to rise lead to an increase rather than a reduction in energy accumulation compared with accumulation during a surface warming — presumably a small increase, so that the observed rise in ocean heat content would still be substantial?

(page 4): «The solar forced run exhibits a larger precipitation response per degree of warming than the CO2 forced run, as expected from the theory outlined earlier in this section, even though the precipitation response [note: this must be the temperature response] per unit forcing is smaller than for CO2.»

This was not the case when using the response to solar forcing based on the alternative reconstruction of Lean et al. (1995), in which case they find a very small likelihood (less than 1 %, as opposed to approximately 10 %) that solar warming could be greater than greenhouse warming since 1950.

However, taking account of sampling uncertainty (as most more recent detection and attribution studies do, including those shown in Figure 9.9) makes relatively little difference to estimates of attributable warming rates, particularly those due to greenhouse gases; the largest differences occur in estimates of upper bounds for small signals, such as the response to solar forcing (Allen and Stott, 2003; Stott et al., 2003a).

«Response of the Large - Scale Structure of the Atmosphere to Global Warming -LSB-...] Although it is only in convective regions where the moist adiabatic lapse rate directly controls the temperature aloft, horizontal temperature gradients tend to be small at low latitudes (Sobel et al. 2001) and the warming spreads throughout the tropics.Warming -LSB-...] Although it is only in convective regions where the moist adiabatic lapse rate directly controls the temperature aloft, horizontal temperature gradients tend to be small at low latitudes (Sobel et al. 2001) and the warming spreads throughout the tropics.warming spreads throughout the tropics.»

Conceptually — small changes in conditions precipitate non-linear responses in the system and the system shifts into a «new» state that is either warmer or cooler by amounts that, because of multiple negative and positive feedbacks, bear no linear relationships to the original control variable.

In the American sample, there was also a small and extremely politically conservative group who actually became more likely to reject human - caused global warming in response to evidence of the expert consensus.

The climate model assumes that water vapor, the most important greenhouse gas, would increase in the upper atmosphere in response to the small warming effect from CO2 emissions.

RokShox says: October 24, 2013 at 12:31 pm «The climate model assumes that water vapor, the most important greenhouse gas, would increase in the upper atmosphere in response to the small warming effect from CO2 emissions.»

«While our study provides a measure of possible response to global warming — that is, getting smaller — in a sense that is the best - case scenario,» Bloch told LiveScience, Life's Little Mysteries» partner site.

Linear regression provides some evidence of a small rapid negative response in the LW from water vapour, related largely to decreased relative humidity (RH), but the response here, too, is dwarfed by subsequent response to warming.

Here, we present an explanation for time - invariant land — sea warming ratio that applies if three conditions on radiative forcing are met: first, spatial variations in the climate forcing must be sufficiently small that the lower free troposphere warms evenly over land and ocean; second, the temperature response must not be large enough to change the global circulation to zeroth order; third, the temperature response must not be large enough to modify the boundary layer amplification mechanisms that contribute to making φ exceed unity.

Davidson made no attempt to challenge the central claim that all mainstream studies show the cost of a response to global warming to be small — he jsut dragged a red herring across the track.