Sentences with phrase «total warming impact»

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The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

This low - impact workout video includes a quick cardio warm - up, total body workout, core workout, cool down, and stretch.

Although impacts of UHIs on the absolute annual and seasonal temperature are identified, UHI contributions to the long - term trends are less than 10 % of the regional total warming during the period.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

We want to ask you instead to begin fully embracing a just energy policy for all Virginians that reduces total climate pollution while investing in clean - energy jobs and real investments to protect our people and the military from accelerating sea - level rise and other impacts of global warming.

Global warming is evaluated on the basis of the land - ocean temperature record; the impact of adjustments on recent warming is minimal, and on the whole record it is small compared to the total amount of warming.

Remember that when you add up all the specific impacts of the type that we have been reviewing here, the total economic costs at 40C of warming — which we would expect to reach sometime into the 22nd century — are estimated by the IPCC to be about 1 — 5 % of global GDP (See WG2 SPM, page 17)

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The national total annual impact of climate change expressed in welfare - equivalent income change for a 2.5 ˚C global warming (relative to pre-industrial times) as a function of per capita income (top panel) and temperature (bottom panel).

Though these gases represent just 2 percent of the current total of all GHG emissions, their warming impact is high and their use is rapidly increasing.

This long time constant is mandatory to their claims since if the time constant is short we would have already seen essentially all the impact from half a doubling of CO2 which, using their numbers, is more than half of the total 0.7 C of warming they claim.

6 December, 2007 Dear Power Consumer: While we all want our governments to do something about carbon emissions and planetary warming, many of us believe that it is important to consider the total impact of any project that claims to benefit our society.

Resolving this dilemma must include a serious look at potential «winners and losers» of a marginally warmer world, as well as at the best available cost / benefit analyses of the specific proposals being made to» reshape our common future on a global scale» and their total costs including the impacts of all unintended consequences.

Considering co2 is less than 5 % of the total GHG impact even in warming circles without the magic (make believe) human co2 compounding talking point just how much relative impact could human co2 have??

Wind / solar are limited to a small percentage of the total, due to the inherent lack of reliability — and, when you calculate in the CO2 from the required gas - fired standby plants for the 75 - 80 % of the time they are idle, there is very little net reduction in CO2 and essentially no impact on global warming.

HadCRUT attributed the «lack of warming» over the past decade (despite CO2 concentrations reaching record levels) to «natural variability» (a.k.a.natural forcing), while IPCC told us in AR4 that the total effect of «natural forcing components» since 1750 was essentially negligible compared to the impact of CO2.

Added on top of this exaggeration is an even worse misrepresentation of the impact of cloud changes with warming (cloud feedback) and a total ignoring of any naturally caused changes in clouds (cloud forcing).

Especially since 2002 is the warmest (at least globally with the GHCN - ERSST data) I prefer to look at 1880 -LRB--.2) to 2006 (+.3) off global mean for the period and it's clear to see the trend globally going from -.4 to +.3 The only questions then left are what is the meaning (and / or import) of the sudden changes since 1980, what changing a total of.005 C a year during the period means, what impact does increasing urbanization globally and additional industrialization in places like India and China contribute, why the drop from +.6 to +.3, and why not a constant increase from year to year, given the elevated CO2 levels.

The abstract to this 2010 paper, including Jones, http://www.springerlink.com/content/kr5w2616551w7810/ explicitly states: «Although impacts of UHIs on the absolute annual and seasonal temperature are identified, UHI contributions to the long - term trends are less than 10 % of the regional total warming during the period.»

When we reported on Ben and Jerry's teaming up with Ecotricity to combat global warming, one irate commenter informed us that it was «total rubbish» due to the environmental impacts of the dairy industry.

Thus in terms of impacts the problem is surface warming — which is described much better by actually measuring surface temperatures rather than total ocean heat content.

Taking adaptation into account, rich countries will adapt to the negative impacts of global warming and exploit the positive changes, creating a total positive effect of global warming worth about half a percentage point of GDP.

Little is known about the total cost of impacts above 3 degrees of warming, it said.