Sentences with phrase «term warming of the climate»

Scientists sifting for trends in record high and low temperatures across the United States have found more evidence of long - term warming of the climate, with the biggest shift coming through a reduction in record low nighttime temperatures.

The long - term warming of the climate may be threatening the celebrated Dutch tradition of skating frozen canals and rivers between towns in Friesland, according to a new analysis of climate and skating trends there.

To me, the more subtle background trend is the significant one to watch because it's like the long - term warming of the climate itself.

Not exact matches

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.

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

In warm tropical climates where coconuts grow, and where air temperatures are almost always above 75 degrees, coconut oil is a liquid most of the time, hence the term «coconut oil.»

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.

The researchers say that countries must also tackle short - lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons that accelerate warming greatly in the near term, and take some of the carbon that is currently in the atmosphere out.

Jochem Marotzke and Piers M. Forster have now explained the warming pause in terms of random fluctuations arising from chaotic processes in the climate system.

About half of this near - term warming represents a «commitment» to future climate change arising from the inertia of the climate system response to current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.

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.

One study, led by Chris Funk of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Santa Barbara's Climate Hazard Group, looked at long - term warming of the sea surface in the North Pacific.

«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.

«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.

While that streak will eventually end, Deke Arndt, the head of the climate monitoring division at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, said that the long - term warming trend is stll clear.

But the period of time over which the team analysed the long - term trend in warming was the past 50 years, in which this oscillation hasn't changed significantly — so almost all the warming looks to have been the result of anthropogenic climate change.

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.

The research, published in Nature Communications, examined preserved fossil remains of coccolithophores from a period of climate warming and ocean acidification that occurred around 56 million years ago — the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)-- and provides a much - needed long - term perspective of coccolithophore response to ocean acidification.

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

«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing methane emissions can bring great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air quality, and that many of the sources can be controlled at low or even negative cost, we still need better data on emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.

To check whether warm winters have already attenuated the advance in spring phenology, an international team of researchers from China, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland and Germany investigated the change in the sensitivity of leaf unfolding to climate warming using long - term observations for seven dominant European tree species at 1245 sites in Central Europe.

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

They are probably biased due to emphasis on one part of the world such as the North Atlantic / Europe region... It is probably better to view the climate changes during the last 2,000 years in terms of cool and warm centuries in various parts of the world.

So, while the oceans are a heat sink in the short - term, warmer oceans are a source of climate gases in the long - term.

Long - term (decadal and multi-decadal) variation in total annual streamflow is largely influenced by quasi-cyclic changes in sea - surface temperatures and resulting climate conditions; the influence of climate warming on these patterns is uncertain.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

It appears that the climate changes according to a repeating 60 year or so pattern with 30 years of general warming and 30 years of general cooling, this pattern superimposed, we hope, on a very slow longer term warming trend.

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.

In a long - term trend that demonstrates the effects of a warming climate, daily record - high temperatures have recently been outpacing daily record lows by an average of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the climate continues to warm.

The Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecolTerm Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecolterm effect of climate warming on forest ecology.

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.

In a long - term trend that demonstrates the effects of a warming climate, daily record - high temperatures have recently been outpacing daily record - lows by an average of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the climate continues to warm.

This comparison reveals modern warming has characteristics of natural short - term climate variability and not long - term climate change.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

Currently, instrumental temperature characteristics are consistent with natural climate variability of short - term events and steep warming trendlines.

In warm tropical climates where coconuts grow, and where air temperatures are almost always above 75 degrees, coconut oil is a liquid most of the time, hence the term «coconut oil.»

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.

Buffalo City, as East London is charmingly known, not only lies on one of the most sublime coastlines of the world - think warm Indian Ocean waters and sub-tropical weather that allow visitors to enjoy the climate all year round - it also basks gloriously between the Nahoon River in the north and the Buffalo River to the south of the city, and the phrase «unspoilt beaches» was termed with East London's beaches in mind.

After years of escaping the British winter months for warmer climates, either on surf trips, or to work as a surf coach, I decided that this was the year I was going to stay at home and start pursuing my interests in computer technology in the form of university, although I'm studying hard I'm having a great time combining both of my passions during term time, I cant wait for the summer to begin and really make the most of what Cornwall has to offer.

Have there been any «classic» tests of climate models that would falsify the hypothesis of large warming over the long term?

Looking at daily records can be insightful, but only when you have enough examples and a good metric to be comparing — the straight number of warm records is not good because even in a static climate you expect structure, but the ratio of warm to cool records is quite good because the expectation is that it should be 50:50 in the medium term (Meehl et al, 2010).

I can not find any contemporary reports of climate scientists condemning him for make long term conclusions about climate change based on a warming period of just 13 years.

Ice - sheet responses to decadal - scale ocean forcing appear to be less important, possibly indicating that the future response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be governed more by long - term anthropogenic warming combined with multi-centennial natural variability than by annual or decadal climate oscillations.»

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...