Not exact matches
«The beauty
of this study is that easily acquired measures
of reef complexity and depth provide a means
of predicting long
term consequences of ocean
warming events,» Dr Wilson says.
The coverage
of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean
warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short - and long -
term consequences of environmental changes to the reef.
The finding suggests that focusing exclusively on carbon dioxide is misguided, and that cutting soot could better prevent the short -
term consequences of global
warming, Jacobson says.
Global
warming has become a political
term, so I feel hesitant to use it in a scientific context, but it is still an accurate
term that does well to getting the public to think about the
consequences of our society.
The direct
consequence of the absorption
of ultra-violet light is to
warm the stratosphere, substantially raising the importance
of the emission
term relative to the absorption
term.
Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global
warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines
of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global
warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope
of his campaign against global
warming, lethal
consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic
terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»
They looked at the potential long -
term consequences of oceans ever richer in dissolved carbon dioxide, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases that continue to
warm the atmosphere.
The two spikes around 1983 and 1993 were a
consequence of volcanic eruptions injecting material into the stratosphere resulting in short
term warming of the lower stratosphere.
The spikes around 1998 and 2010 were a
consequence of strong El Nino events releasing oceanic warmth to the air resulting in short
term warming of the troposphere.
«It could mean our higher limit
of warming is now even higher, depending on the model, which means serious
consequences for us in
terms of climate change.
Climate change is the long -
term average
of a region's weather events lumped together.There are some effects
of greenhouse gases and global
warming: melting
of ice caps, rising sea levels, change in climatic patterns, spread diseases, economic
consequences, increased droughts and heat waves.
Do you not understand that as a
consequence, short -
term variability in the rate
of atmospheric
warming is barely relevant?
I think you could make the case that consistently breathing PM from wood burning fires would be much worse for those individuals than the longer
term ill effects
of global
warming, etc.... just as it would be worse for individuals to be in the path
of coal burning smoke as opposed to suffering the long
term consequences.
If the sun stays quiet we should soon see the level
of atmospheric CO2 stabilise and then begin a slow decline but since there is a long
term lag
of some 800 years shown in the historical record between temperature and CO2 amounts we may still be seeing CO2
consequences from the Mediaeval
Warm Period which could skew the figures away from those expected from current solar variations.
Climate model simulations expect a long -
term decrease in ocean heat uptake efficiency as a
consequence of global
warming.
«When the total emissions
of greenhouse gases are considered... natural gas and coal from mountaintop removal probably have similar releases, and in fact natural gas may be worse in
terms of consequences on global
warming.»
Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent
of the country's total emissions
of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much greater short
term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far greater long -
term punch).