Sentences with phrase «total global rainfall»

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Perhaps with all that is known now, someone will propose a well - defined multivariate test entailing all relevant global data (including Antarctic ice extent and total Antarctic ice mass, mean and extremal rainfall everywhere, mean and extremal cyclonic storms everywhere.)

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, global ice cover, and rainfall are about the same (maybe a slight increase in total rainfall); forests and all other vegetation that has been studied are growing faster; actual effects of putative ocean pH change are negligible to non-existent.

Even the Daily Mail Online said: «Prof Collins made clear that he believes it is likely global warming could lead to higher rainfall totals, because a warmer atmosphere can hold more water.»