Sentences with phrase «term global climate warming»

«Reductions of methane and black carbon (soot) would likely have only a modest impact on near - term global climate warming,» the authors at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wrote.

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WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long - term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region.»

With respect to global warming, it's better to think in terms of manmade climate and environmental change.

A huge shift towards renewables and the clean economy is needed if we are going to bring down consumer bills in the long - term and take seriously our need to tackle climate change, honouring our commitment to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

Window for rapid emissions reduction may be closing Obama begins his second term one week after a federal advisory committee of 60 climate experts issued a draft report that warns of accelerating global warming.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

That desire of balance lead the program's creators to avoid terms like «climate change» or «global warming» in lesson plans, Rowe said, «which would have sent a biased point of view.»

Although a wide variety of greenhouse gases contribute to human - caused global warming, it is CO2, largely alone, that will determine the long - term climate, Solomon says.

Many climate scientists — myself included — think that a single decade is too brief to accurately measure global warming and that the IPCC was unduly influenced by this one, short - term number.

A slow - down in global warming is not a sign that climate change is ending, but a natural blip in an otherwise long - term upwards trend, research shows.

«In other words, although the term matters — climate change versus global warming — an overwhelming majority of Republicans still state that global warming is happening,» he said.

BARACK OBAMA is certainly talking the talk on climate change — promising to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his second term.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

«We have taken a major step forward in terms of short - term climate forecasting, especially with regard to the development of global warming.

It is easier for Republicans to acknowledge climate change,» while they see global warming as a more loaded term with broader implications.

However, it says the observed changes in fire activity are in line with long - term, global fire patterns that climate models have projected will occur as temperatures increase and droughts become more severe in the coming decades due to global warming.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

A longtime champion of climate action and an intense observer of the U.N. treaty process, Kerry said in no uncertain terms yesterday that he will make global warming a priority.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

The long - term warming of the planet, as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño, led to numerous climate records in 2015, including milestones for global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Climate climate records in 2015, including milestones for global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Climate Climate Report.

Climate Central's chief meteorologist, Bernadette Woods Placky, explains the significance of 2 °C in terms of global warming.

The long - term global warming trend is predominantly a forced climate change caused by increased human - made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 [1].

As early as 1988, in his first term as a Senator, he was already warning the country of the dangers of global warming and climate change which were then considered non-issues in both national and global context.

Meteorological anomalies can not be purely attributed to deterministic factors, let alone any one specific such factor (e.g. either global warming or a hypothetical long - term climate oscillation).

you fail to mention that the term «global warming» has largely been updated to «climate change,» which is admittedly even less alarming and purposely more nebulous.

Although the Met Office Hadley Center model projects extreme drying and warming in the Amazon due to ongoing climate change, and there may even be a commitment to long - term decline of part of the Amazon forest even at just 2 degrees global warming above pre-industrial, other climate models show less of a drying or even none at all.

P.S., In fresh article published in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem...

Global climate is a good example — not today's global warming episode, but long - term climate changes on the scale of many millions of Global climate is a good example — not today's global warming episode, but long - term climate changes on the scale of many millions of global warming episode, but long - term climate changes on the scale of many millions of years.

«The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long - term trends associated with global warming.

In a separate nationally representative survey, we found that while Americans are equally familiar with the two terms, they are four times more likely to say they hear the term global warming in public discourse than climate change.

As the post explains, Broecker's 1975 paper appears to have been the first in the scientific literature to use the term «global warming» to describe climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated carbon dioxide.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

We found that the term global warming is associated with greater public understanding, emotional engagement, and support for personal and national action than the term climate change.

Likewise, Americans are two times more likely to say they personally use the term «global warming» in their own conversations than climate change.

Due to this semi-random nature of weather, it is wrong to blame any one event such as Katrina specifically on global warming — and of course it is just as indefensible to blame Katrina on a long - term natural cycle in the climate.

Some issue advocates have argued that the term climate change is more likely to engage Republicans in the issue, however, the evidence from these studies suggests that in general the terms are synonymous for Republicans — i.e., neither term is more engaging than the other, although in several cases, global warming generates stronger feelings of negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States.

No matter what short term metrics are applied, the Arctic is undergoing long term rapid melting, dominantly as a result of human - induced global warming and climate change.

Schneider's approach to climate policy, comes up during a discussion of the enduring uncertainty surrounding the most consequential aspects of global warming, particularly the near - term rate at which sea levels will rise as ice sheets melt and seawater warms.

After reading the piece, Crowley sent a note under the title «Tales of Brave Ulysses» (as per Cream), alluding in part to an essay he wrote for The Guardian in 2007: «In the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change; to tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.»

[Response: While I wouldn't quite characterize this in terms of a «permanent El Nino», a reasonably up - to - date discussion of possible climate change influences on ENSO is provided in our previous article El Nino and Global Warming — mike]

The scientific community has also known for some time that the predicted future global warming in most climate models (more than 2 degrees C.) would probably be well above the long - term average temperature present at any time during the Holocene.

«Since proponents of man - made climate change insist that man's actions here can affect global weather, especially and specifically temperature, why did they waffle on the original term «global warming»?

As your wonderful Governor has said, «Any time you pick up a newspaper and see the terms «climate change» or «global warming,» just think: «jobs for Michigan.»»

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

But I also think it is important to increase our efforts in making further progress in terms of our ability to get a clearer picture of how a global warming may affect the local climate and what that may mean for adaptation.

Also, the term «global pattern of warming» implies regional temperature change, which pushes the climate system response discussion to a much higher level of complexity than when simply talking about changes in global - mean climate.

Vicky Pope, a meteorologist in England's climate and meteorology office, has a remarkable op - ed in the Guardian warning that scientists, the media and campaigners of all stripes who use short - term trends in weather or sea ice to make points are misleading the public about global warming.

The dominant driving force of «climate change» as the term is being used in public policy is «global warming», an average increase in global temperature.