Sentences with phrase «substantial warming»

For example, we saw in the previous section, that the temperature records show a period of substantial warming followed by a period of substantial cooling up to the satellite era.

I think the focus should be on understanding climate — and unfortunately you can't do that without a theory that predicts substantial warming due to anthropogenic CO2.

To avoid substantial warming, the cuts in emissions still have to be profound, as I wrote in an early post here asking what if the whole world were equal, in emissions.

The remarkably cold modified Arctic airmass that has brought bitterly cold air to much of North America has now shifted eastward, and the West Coast is in the midst of a slow but substantial warming trend that will continue at least through the coming weekend.

This paper explores the controversy surrounding the period 1920 - 1950, which was a period of substantial warming in the Arctic.

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans.

The IPWP has experienced substantial warming and growth during the past century.

Fossil evidence is cementing the idea that the species is at least 200,000 years old or more (meaning it's been through substantial warm periods).

The region, like most of the Arctic, has seen substantial warming, and the expedition, among other things, is aiming to measure how much carbon dioxide and methane could be liberated if the permafrost thaws in a big way.

Live Updates Below and see new post Richard Muller, a cantankerous but creative physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, who once derided climate change research, then dove in with his own reconstruction of terrestrial temperature changes and confirmed substantial warming, has now concluded that recent warming is «almost entirely» human caused.

That guarantees substantial warming, and --- according to a host of scientific assessments built on decades of work independent of recent controversies over scientists» email messages — rising risks.

Scientists in Canada have recorded temperatures for the 71 - year peiod from 1936 to 2006, and have seen that mean monthly temperatures have increased enough to provide what they call a «substantial warming signal.»

How substantial that warming will be remains far from certain, and within the predicted parameters there are wide variances in the possible consequences.

In the last century, these sun - blocking particles probably masked substantial warming, scientists say.

Remember that direct greenhouse effect from CO2 is quite small; the predictions rely on positive feedback from other effects (particularly water vapour feedbacks, a far more significant greenhouse gas) to cause substantial warming.

I've written previously about a valuable proposal by some scientists to start planning a long - term conservation strategy focused on regions of the Arctic where sea ice is expected to persist even with substantial warming.

As expected, Huber and Knutti find that greenhouse gases contributed to substantial warming since 1850, and aerosols had a significant cooling effect:

CO2 has increased 40 % since industrial revolution, climate has warmed 0.8 °C since 1900 (most of which has occurred recently), substantial warming in store if GHG emissions continue unabated.

Nor does it materially alter the risks of substantial warming of the Earth by the end of this century.»

«One quarter to one half of the Antarctic coastline has some substantial warming going on as of now,» Monaghan adds.

This is meant as a challenge to Muller's conclusions, given that much rests on the substantial warming in recent decades.

Combine all these elements with the drying linked to recent substantial warming of Indian Ocean waters — which Funk and other researchers attribute to human - driven global warming — and you will have more of what's unfolding in Somalia now.

The combined anthropogenic RF is estimated to be +1.6 -LSB--- 1.0, +0.8] 2 W m — 2, indicating that, since 1750, it is extremely likely that humans have exerted a substantial warming influence on climate.

that humans have exerted a substantial warming influence on climate.

Using land based temperatures to infill (create temperature «measurements» where none exist) Arctic sea surface temperatures is especially egregious, as it creates a substantial warm bias that is not present in a largely ice - covered ocean.

In the northern hemisphere, a substantial warming occurred between 1910 and 1940.

Now, if NOAA's computer program is indeed able to remove the non-climatic biases from the station records, it surely must remove a substantial warming trend from the Buenos Aires record to get rid of the urbanization bias.