Sentences with phrase «suggest continued global warming»

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The research suggests that — contrary to some prior findings — CO2 led the prior round of global warming rather than vice versa, just as it continues to do today thanks to rising emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

If we are despondent about global warming, pollution, overpopulation or continuing political conflict it is because we are not yet capable of seeing the world through Metaman's eyes, he suggests.

A slowly dropping rate of increase would still be disastrous, but encouraging because it would suggest that we have done something real and significant to start moving the needle int the right direction, but sooner or later, the needle has to start moving down or our global warming troubles will continue to build and the only change we are creating is the rate at which are troubles will build.

«suggesting that Arctic warming will continue to greatly exceed the global average over the coming century, with concomitant reductions in terrestrial ice masses and, consequently, an increasing rate of sea level rise.»

Everything I've seen suggest that, with the human component, we can expect global warming to continue — indefinitely.

Yet, although the oscillations seen in Fig. 2 suggest the AMOC may well swing up again for a while, a long - term further weakening is what we have to expect if we let global warming continue for much longer.

Oreskes kicks off with statistics from a recent poll which suggest that «72 % of Americans [are] completely or mostly convinced that global warming is happening» and that «sixty - two percent... believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

But his trip was a few decades ago when the average sea ice depth was 3.1 meters; now it is down to 1.7 meters and models suggest that it will continue thinning and retreating with our global warming.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

This suggests that the annual number of hurricanes will continue to increase as a result of global warming, says Mann.

As a result, they suggest that we should be aiming to limit global warming to near, [continue reading...]

Most models show a progressive weakening of the Gulf Stream as global warming continues, but few have suggested it would be so significant, so soon.

Importantly, these trends can largely be explained by increases in mean ocean temperatures, suggesting that we can expect further increases in marine heatwave days under continued global warming.»

It acknowledges that global warming will continue as long as humans continue increasing the greenhouse effect, and merely suggests that future warming will be toward the lower, slower end of the IPCC estimates.

And these results, as they continue, «suggest that an increased temperature will result n a shortening of the life span of mosquitoes (due to decreasing humidity) and decrease in the capacity of larva production and maturation (due to decreasing rainfall),» so that ultimately «the increase in temperature will not result in an increased malaria transmission in Burundi,»...» [Hermenegilde Nkurunziza and Juergen Pilz 2011: International Journal of Global Warming]

... a growing body of evidence suggests that kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues...

The IPCC * itself * acknowledges that there has been no such warming now for the last 16 - 17 years; that no dramatic imminent change is seen to that for the next couple of years at least; that the previous spell of 15 years or so was precisely the duration of warming that underlay so much of the evidence cited for its alarms of the long and terrible global trend if forecast; that not a single model the IPCC had or has seems to have come even close to predicting what we've now seen; that the IPCC can only suggest possible explanations for all this so logically meaning it can have no reason to believe that whatever is causing it isn't going to continue forever; that more and more studies are coming in attributing global temperatures not to CO2 but instead other things such as solar fluctuations; that a number of predictions are now coming in that in fact say we are now in for a lengthy period of * cooling.

The science needed to estimate species survival rates if global warming continues throughout this century is not well developed, but it has been suggested that prolonged global warming could take a heavy toll on planetary life (27).

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If global warming continues there is little chance of the ancient weather pattern — a drier Northwest and a wetter Southwest — returning in the foreseeable future, which suggests warnings of a megadrought need to be taken seriously, the researchers say.