Sentences with phrase «strong global warming effect»

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.

While methane and nitrous oxide make up much smaller portions of total greenhouse gas emissions, these gases are still important factors in the climate crisis, in part because they each have stronger global warming effects than carbon dioxide and also because they constitute an increasing portion of total emissions.

Not exact matches

Other experts say that the effect of hurricanes on global warming would probably be minimal as only the largest storms are expected to get stronger.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

It seems clear that the UHI effect is a real physical effect and the complaint from AGW skeptics and denialists is that the strong (and real) warming in urban areas is contaminating regional and global temperature averages.

«As a global society, we need to get down to a level of 90 percent reductions by 2050» to have a decent chance of warding off the strongest effects of global warming.

The fact that the increase in damage cost is about as large as the increase in GDP (as recently argued at FiveThirtyEight) is certainly no strong evidence against an effect of global warming on damage cost.

They keep yapping about «thousands of scientists» contributing to the IPCC AR4, when in fact the Summary for Policymakers was written by a small coterie of believers in a strong effect of CO2 on global warming.

His book is strong on fundamental principals of the physics of the atmosphere underlying the greenhouse effect and global warming.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that this effect will do anything but get stronger from here on as the vast «crops» of oceanic bacteria adapt to both warmer ocean waters and increased CO2 and nutrient levels and simply increasingly cool the global atmospheric climate simply by «growing faster»!

The new report — the first of three comprehensive studies to come out this year — makes one of the strongest claims yet in support of the hypothesis that human activity, namely the relentless pumping of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is what's behind climate change — an effect climate scientists refer to as anthropogenic global warming.

On the other hand; global warming has a number of significant effects on the environment; including the rising sea levels, melting ices, and lately being associated with possibility to cause stronger Hurricane.

If we had a Tardis, we would be able to go back in time to the Paleoecene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 55 - 56 million years ago, a time of substantial natural global warming, and observe the Greenhouse Effect growing stronger.

The particularly striking flat portion of MRES is from 1860 to 1950, which is strong support for my point that global warming can already be observed starting in 1860 as shown in Figure 2, Observed Global Warming or OGW, and follows a curve that is in remarkable agreement with what the greenhouse effect hypothesis should prglobal warming can already be observed starting in 1860 as shown in Figure 2, Observed Global Warming or OGW, and follows a curve that is in remarkable agreement with what the greenhouse effect hypothesis should pwarming can already be observed starting in 1860 as shown in Figure 2, Observed Global Warming or OGW, and follows a curve that is in remarkable agreement with what the greenhouse effect hypothesis should prGlobal Warming or OGW, and follows a curve that is in remarkable agreement with what the greenhouse effect hypothesis should pWarming or OGW, and follows a curve that is in remarkable agreement with what the greenhouse effect hypothesis should predict.

Each month brings us more frightening news on the effects of global warming, but because the changes are gradual, there's never a clear signal that it's time to step up to stronger action.

«Actually, with the exception of 1998 — a «blip» year when temperatures spiked because of a strong «El Nino» effect (the cyclical warming of the southern Pacific that affects weather around the world)-- the data on the Met Office's and CRU's own websites show that global temperatures have been flat, not for ten, but for the past 15 years.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

Goklany uses data from assessment reports, many of them authored by IPCC members, to argue that the world's population would be better off if scientists and policymakers focused on technological advances to help developing countries and tried to mitigate the effects of global warming while keeping the global economy strong.

The experts say our pollution has created an strong and increasing greenhouse effect and a rapid, out of control global warming is underway that will sky rocket temperatures, destroy agriculture, melt the ice caps, flood the coastlines and end life as we know it.

A stronger solar effect on the climate would also imply a significantly larger solar contribution to the 20th century global warming, as demonstrated in some works (Scafetta 2009, 2013a, b, c).

Rawls drew attention to another part of the report about the effect of cosmic rays on global warming, saying in a statement that «admission of strong evidence for enhanced solar forcing changes everything.»

«Actually, with the exception of 1998 — a «blip» year when temperatures spiked because of a strong El Niño effect (the cyclical warming of the southern Pacific that affects weather around the world)-- the data on the Met Office's and CRU's own websites show that global temperatures have been flat, not for 10, but for the past 15 years.»

The basic idea seems to be that the strong Arctic warming trend of 1.5 C / decade by comparison with a global trend of 0.2 C / decade indicates that there's some regional effect which makes the difference from the rest of the planet.

Hansen was the man who in 1988 told a senate committee «it was time to stop waffling... the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,» and thus put global warming on the political agenda for the first time.

follows the very strong advice of scientists, who have told us what needs to be done to avert the catastrophic effects of unchecked global warming.

We can help to avoid the dangerous effects of global warming by enacting strong and mandatory policies to shift to renewable sources of energy and improve energy efficiency.