Sentences with phrase «substantial warming in»

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Using pasta in place of the customary lettuce in a Greek salad makes it a substantial and lively main dish for warm - weather meals, as well as a great vegan potluck dish for summer gatherings.

With cooler temperatures setting in, more substantial and warming foods are favored.

Sure I'll eat salads for lunch all summer, but in winter I need something a little more substantial, and definitely a little warmer.

Warming to his subject, he condemned Mr Cameron's plans to share the proceeds of economic growth between investment in public services and tax cuts, saying this would mean «substantial» cutbacks in health and education funding.

Background on the Warm Front and the successor scheme: Since 2000, when the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme was re-branded as Warm Front, with substantial additional funding and the introduction of heating measures to supplement insulation works, the scheme has formed a major element in fuel poverty policy.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

This warm water reaches the coastline in places, where it triggers substantial melting of the floating parts of glaciers and leads to thinning of the ice upstream.

A substantial portion of the planet is greening in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, global warming and land use change.

Rising sea levels are certain in a warming world, but there is still substantial uncertainty about the extent of the increase in this century, mainly because the dynamics that could erode the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica remain poorly understood.

«I am most concerned by the fact that a substantial portion of American adults already report sleep difficulties and that increases in nighttime warming could further exacerbate the problem,» Migliorini said.

That bests the previous warmest January - June in 1934 by 1.1 °F — a substantial difference, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

The study provides the first field - based evidence that arctic N2O emissions increase when the Arctic is warming; and that hampered plant growth plays a substantial role in regulating Arctic greenhouse gas exchange.

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decadIn the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decadin the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

Similarly, in some countries in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece) the initial increase in impacts at 1.5 °C turns into more uncertain projections for higher warming levels, due to a substantial reduction in annual rainfall.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

A study assesses flood impacts for three scenarios — of 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming — and finds that most of Central and Western Europe will experience substantial increase in flood risk at all warming levels, and the higher the warming, the higher the risk.

«To see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be substantial impacts from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.

That means it sinks into the deeper layers of the ocean, and the contrast between this warm water and the undersea ice canyons contributes an unknown but substantial amount of sea level rise, said Josh Willis, an oceanographer at JPL in Pasadena, California.

It was possible, according to the I.P.C.C. consensus statement, that the warming before 1956 could be because of changes in solar activity, and that even a substantial part of the more recent warming could be natural.

Nonetheless, even if the substantial recent trend in the AO pattern is simply a product of natural multidecadal variability in North Atlantic climate, it underscores the fact that western and southern Greenland is an extremely poor place to look, from a signal vs. noise point of view, for the large - scale polar amplification signature of anthropogenic surface warming.

While the warming of the normals can look subtle, it also means a substantial increase in the incidents of extreme heat and a decrease in the frequency of extreme cold.

Indeed, the main quandary faced by climate scientists is how to estimate climate sensitivity from the Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period, at all, given the relative small forcings over the past 1000 years, and the substantial uncertainties in both the forcings and the temperature changes.

«Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM (Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum of 55 million years ago)», oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a professor of Earth science at Rice University and study co-author said.

This suggests that a substantial portion of recent warming in the northeastern Canada and Greenland sector of the Arctic arises from unforced natural variability.

According to scientists, «unforced natural variability» (NAO) can actually explain a «substantial portion» of the warming of the Arctic in the last few decades.

Despite continuous injection of a large amount of very cold (− 15 ◦ C) water in these pure freshwater experiments, substantial portions of the ocean interior become warmer.

Substantial and correlated changes in marine carbonate (CaCO3) content of oceanic sediments commonly accompany the transitions from cold glacial periods to warm interglacial periods.

The substantial uncertainties currently present in the quantitative assessment of large - scale surface temperature changes prior to about A.D. 1600 lower our confidence in this conclusion compared to the high level of confidence we place in the Little Ice Age cooling and 20th century warming.»

«While there is substantial uncertainty in both the pace of change and the ultimate amounts of warming following an increase in greenhouse gas concentration,» Caldeira said, «there is little uncertainty in the basic outlook.

The response to global warming of deep convective clouds is also a substantial source of uncertainty in projections since current models predict different responses of these clouds.

The older Met Office Hadley Centre model, HadCM3, (in) famously produced an emergent result of very substantial drying and warming in the Amazon, taking the regional climate below the threshold for which rainforest could be supported.

Third, with our ∼ 1 °C scenario it is more likely that the biosphere and soil will be able to sequester a substantial portion of the anthropogenic fossil fuel CO2 carbon than in the case of 2 °C or more global warming.

Already there are numerous indications of substantial effects in response to warming of the past few decades.

The global warming and shifting climate zones would make it less likely that a substantial increase in forest and soil carbon could be achieved.

As an example, in the hot summer you might feel finest on a reduced fat diet with a lot of raw vegetables, while in a cold climate you might want more substantial, warm, cooked foods with a lot of healthful fats, like olive oil, coconut oil, ghee (clarified butter), cheese, and nuts and seeds.

As an example, in the hot summer you could possibly feel finest on a lesser fat diet with a great deal of raw vegetables, while in a cold climate you could possibly want more substantial, warm, cooked foods with a lot of healthful fats, like olive oil, coconut oil, ghee (clarified butter), cheese, and nuts and seeds.

In his presence observing his gentle smile and warm eyes, one does immediately realize the energy and warmth he radiates triggering a substantial change occurring within us.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

Leaving substantial equity (20 - 30 % +) in the hands of sellers might feel warm & fuzzy, but it's no way to execute an acquisition.

This book is the first substantial survey of Farmanfarmaian's acclaimed geometric works, and features an in - depth interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; critical essays by Nader Ardalan, Media Farzin and Eleanor Sims; warm tributes by Farmanfarmaian's friends Etel Adnan, Siah Armajani, caraballo - farman, Golnaz Fathi, Hadi Hazavei, Susan Hefuna, Aziz Isham, Rose Issa, Faryar Javaherian, Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin Neshat, Donna Stein and Frank Stella; an excerpt from The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture by Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar (1973); and an annotated timeline of Farmanfarmaian's life by Negar Azimi.

The continued forcing from CO2 over this period is substantial, not to mention «warming in the pipeline» from late 20th century increase in CO2.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

In 1991, the language was already strong and urgent, noting that the risks were sufficient to justify action even with substantial unanswered questions: «Despite the great uncertainties, greenhouse warming is a potential threat sufficient to justify action now.»

On the overarching question of «solving» the climate problem, I'm sure Joe would agree that global warming is inevitably going to be, at best, managed — not «fixed» — given the trajectories for emissions in a world inexorably headed toward roughly nine billion people seeking energy - enabled lives and with substantial warming already in the pipeline, according to a heap of research.

In reality the three additional warming sources will impose substantial contributions.

«This uncertainty is illustrated by Pollard et al. (2015), who found that addition of hydro - fracturing and cliff failure into their ice sheet model increased simulated sea level rise from 2 m to 17 m, in response to only 2 °C ocean warming and accelerated the time for substantial change from several centuries to several decades.»

There have been substantial, sometimes rancorous, debates among polar bear researchers about this predator's prospects in a warming climate with less summer sea ice.