Sentences with phrase «sustained warming of the climate»

The sustained warming of the climate is a big deal and has lasting negative impacts for the world, and especially for hot, dry countries like India.

In other words, a sustained warming of the climate triggers feedbacks that reinforce that warming.

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«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

The Senate, true to form, sustained its 18th year of inaction on global warming since ratifying the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

This sustained climate warming will drive the ocean's fishery yields into steep decline 200 years from now and that trend could last at least a millennium, according to University of California, Irvine, and Cornell University researchers in Science, March 9.

The paper, «Sustained Climate Warming Drives Declining Marine Biological Productivity,» was led by first author J. Keith Moore, University of California, Irvine.

Many climate model simulations focus on the amount of warming caused by emissions sustained over decades or centuries, but the timing of temperature increases caused by particular emission has been largely overlooked.

The headline of the NASA news release, NASA Finds 2013 Sustained Long - Term Climate Warming trend, is thus completely turned on its head.

Looking at evidence from past climate swings and greenhouse - gas concentrations, he concludes that a sustained concentration of carbon dioxide at double the 280 parts per million that prevailed for hundreds of millenniums before the industrial revolution would — after a host of slowly - responding feedbacks kicked in to amplify the temperature rise — result in an enormous warming of some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius).

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

But until climate and energy analysts get realistic about conveying the full scope of what's needed, including a sustained investment in energy science sufficient to build the basis for a grand energy transition, the global slumber party, and global warming, will continue.

In fact if a strong self sustaining unforced warming of the oceans as we have seen, around 0.8 W / M ^ 2 does exist, the climate of the earth would be in the process of an unstable runaway condition.

You continued, «In fact if a strong self sustaining unforced warming of the oceans as we have seen, around 0.8 W / M ^ 2 does exist, the climate of the earth would be in the process of an unstable runaway condition.»

Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen.

Ito, T., A. Bracco, C. Deutsch, H. Frenzel, M. Long, and Y. Takano, 2015: Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate.

The projected expansion of the oil sands industry will require too much water to sustain the Athabasca River system, especially with the added impact of predicted climate warming, according to a new report published by the University of... Read more →

Final Text: The headline message to the section states that continued GHG emissions will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system, and that limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of GHG emissions.

Instead of this alarmist headline: NASA FINDS 2012 SUSTAINED LONG - TERM CLIMATE WARMING TREND

Furthermore, the sustained melting of Greenland ice and other ice stores under climate warming, coupled with the impacts of a possible abrupt shut - down of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) after 2100, provide additional uncertainty to sea - level rise for Europe (Gregory et al., 2004; Levermann et al., 2005; Wigley, 2005; Meehl et al., 2007).

Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual climate, inside the minds of men overwhelming evidence indicates that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is a self - sustaining narrative that is living off our mental capacity, either in symbiosis or as an outright cultural parasite; a narrative that is very distanced from physical real - world events.

Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual climate epidemics, inside the minds of men overwhelming evidence indicates that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming the Germ Theory of Disease is a self - sustaining narrative that is living off our mental capacity, either in symbiosis or as an outright cultural parasite; a narrative that is very distanced from physical real - world events.

The researchers speculate that the recent sustained ENSO period may be the result of two influences superimposed on each other: today's warm climate and a variation in Earth's orbit that tends to weaken westerly trade winds in the Pacific.

Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate (Geophysical Research Letters)

Guest post By Alan Caruba The Environmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the objective of the environmental movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation's economy and is using the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, global warming — now called «climate change» — to achieve that goal.

The net effect of these processes taken together is a sustained growth of the carbon storage in the Southern Ocean, notwithstanding a weaker global ocean carbon uptake predicted by all models in a warming climate.

One measure is the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), which is the long - term warming that would result from a sustained doubling of atmospheric CO2.

2013-01-16 — Long - Term Global Warming Trend Continues (NASA / EO Image of the Day) 2013-01-15 — NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long - Term Climate Warming Trend (Release No. 13 - 021)

I suspect that, BAU, the rate of warming from 1970 to 2070 could be very unusual for 100 - year periods for a long time into the past, though I'd defer to others who have studied climate records in more detail... (the sustained rate of increase in GHG forcing already is quite a bit larger than what occured in at least the last deglaciation — see graphs in ch 6 of IPCC AR4 WGI)

2014-10-23 — Rising Temperatures: A Month Versus a Decade (NASA / EO Image of the Day) 2014-01-21 — NASA Finds 2013 Sustained Long - Term Climate Warming Trend (Release No. 14 - 024)