Sentences with phrase «trends of a warming world»

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This century has seen an acceleration of global - warming trends, as well as an extreme widening of the gap between the world's richest and its poorest.

Thinking of himself as a grand world - historical figure, attuned to the latest intellectual trend (preferably one with a tinge of futurism and science, like global warming), demonstrating his own incomparable depth and farsightedness.

Nobody knows exactly what this trend means for the rest of the world, but the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula is warming up faster than any place on earth.

Northern latitude tundra and boreal forests are experiencing an accelerated warming trend that is greater than in other parts of the world.

«At face - value, many of the climate trends in Antarctica seem counter-intuitive for the warming world.

His 1990 novel, Earth, anticipates so many of today's trends — from the World Wide Web to global warming — that there is a Web site devoted entirely to its prognostications.

Some of the world's most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea - levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia.

Velders says his team came up with higher warming estimates than IPCC because their model accounts for trends that others don't, such as the faster - than expected adoption of HFCs driven by the Montreal Protocol, and an air - conditioning boom in the developing world.

2) Three years ago, I tried to get a handle on whether UHI was responsible for the recent warming trend in most of the temperature datasets by comparing the trends for the UAH / MSU 2LT channel and the Jones et al. surface data for some of the world's «empty places».

These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in global warming — caused by the continued release of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.

Even though we will continue to see cold outbreaks in a warming world, the trend in the vast majority of the cities analyzed shows that these extreme cold nights are happening less often.

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

Whether any of these trends warm up to you or not, they definitely exist — and they represent the new world order in fashion that is the bloggisphere.

At auto shows around the world, concept cars are trying to define this trend with vanlike vehicles offering a warmer, friendlier interior, lots of usable space and front seats that turn around to face the back or even fold up and disappear.

Gamehotel producer Tina Cassani says: «A world - class lineup celebrating the future of interactive entertainment and discussing fresh trends, all at a spectacular venue - the Gamehotel Boss Suite was the perfect warm - up to a great trade fair week.

Their views of sea trends through this century still vary widely, while they agree, almost to a person, that centuries of eroding ice and rising seas are nearly a sure thing in a warming world.

This week, PNAS published our paper Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World, which analyses how many new record events you expect to see in a time series with a trend.

Isn't this a surreal transition time when many people continue with business as usual, chomping up the comforts of our world and choosing to ignore every trend except maybe global warming, and others feel that the life signs of our planet are declining so fast that it's already too late no matter what we do.

Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to predict a global warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).

Arctic researchers caution that there is something of a paradox in Arctic trends: while the long - term fate of the region may be mostly sealed, no one should presume that the recent sharp warming and seasonal ice retreats that have caught the world's attention will continue smoothly into the future.

The existing population density around the world and the current trend of voluntary migration of people (to e.g. Florida, Arizona, California, Costa Rica, Mexico, etc.) are a resounding testimony of our preference for warmer climate, not withstanding the claims of violent storms, heat waves, floods, droughts, etc..

Mr. Chamie notes that the relatively enormous thirst for energy, food and other resources from Americans, when compared with that of the average world citizen, gives outsize importance to issues like global warming and to American trends.

With respect to the human perspective, the existing population density around the world and the current trend of voluntary migration of people (to e.g. Florida, Arizona, California, Costa Rica, Mexico, etc.) are a resounding testimony of our preference for warmer climate.

The same issue has played out in discussions of hurricane trends in a warming world.

I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.

But for the moment, twin trends are exacerbating the threat: the urban rush in developing countries, in which millions of poor people are settling on fragile slopes and floodplains, and rising odds of rain falling in dangerous downpours in a warming world.

This view is echoed by Kerry Emanuel in comments on the paper in the Washington Post, where he suggests that the impact of wind shear changes relative to warming SSTs in the real world, as diagnosed from trends observed thus far, may be overstated by the V+S study:

Thus, modeling exercises have for decades now shown some pretty persistent patterns of recurrence, such as drying trends under warming in certain areas (notably the Mediterranean basin, including the Middle East) and the American Southwest — patterns we see in the real world.

has an excellent overview of energy trends in the world — and what would need to happen for the world to curtail its greenhouse gas emissions and avoid significant global warming.

With the uneven warming trends likely to continue, poor nations have a case for demanding rich world assistance to cope with climate change... Poor countries have «contributed the least, but in terms of temperature effects, they will suffer the most».

The very next year the same magazine reported that «The world may be inching into a prolonged warming trend that is the direct result of burning more and more fossil fuels...» The ice - age theories, said the article, «are being convincingly opposed by growing evidence of human impact.»

Generally, the remaining uncorrected effect from urban heat islands is now believed to be less than 0.1 C, and in some parts of the world it may be more than fully compensated for by other changes in measurement methods.4 Nevertheless, this remains an important source of uncertainty.The warming trend observed over the past century is too large to be easily dismissed as a consequence of measurement errors.

2 — For future planning, it is more likely the world will be warmer rather than colder even if you exclude potential human - caused forcing (i.e. based on a continuation of the current overall trend, which has been broadly similar for a couple of centuries).

Ian Blanchard writes» — For future planning, it is more likely the world will be warmer rather than colder even if you exclude potential human - caused forcing (i.e. based on a continuation of the current overall trend, which has been broadly similar for a couple of centuries).»

TLT has been shown to be a near perfect match trend for the only untampered surface data in the world, USCRN over the USA, thus validating the use of over TTT which is not trend matched and has a spurious warming trend.

Years - long ocean trends such as El Niño and La Niña cause alternate warming and cooling of the sea surface there, with effects on monsoons and temperatures around the world.

This low - C13 carbon most certainly would have been released massively into the atmosphere over the course of the world's warming trend since 1850, when the Little Ice Age ended.

That may mean that some of the highest estimates of future temperature rises, of more than 6C within several decades, are less likely, but it does not let the world off the hook — warming of more than 2C is still highly likely on current high emissions trends, and that would cause severe consequences around the world.

If a substantial fraction of all the weather stations from around the world have been affected by urbanization bias, then this could have introduced an artificial warming trend into the «global temperature trend» estimates.

As the world's second - biggest polluter after China, a move by the U.S. to scrap the accord involving almost 200 nations would pour hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and speed up the warming trend already taking place.

They are (1) the trend data inconclusiveness, (2) there are scientific grounds for eventual reduction of shear winds in a warming world, and (3) possible eventual temperature difference decreases in a warming world.

«However, trends still show it is warming faster relative to the rest of the world.

Global temperatures are a real mish mash and it woud be interesting to judge your comment against real life single series temperatures to see if it stands up, whereby it can be seen that some areas of the world have not followed the warming trend but their cooling signal has been smothered by a warming one, probably from the thermometers placed in newly urbanised areas.

All analyses of all surface temperature data sets compiled by major climate centers around the world show a clear warming trend.

«Despite colder than average weather in any one part of the world,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt, «temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we have seen over the last 40 years.»

Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.

If current trends in global warming continue unmitigated, some of the world's most well - known and historically significant cultural landmarks — including the Statue of Liberty in New York City, the Tower of London in the United Kingdom, and the archaeological sites of Pompeii in Italy — could be destroyed by rising global sea levels over the next 2,000 years, according to new research.

That would let us start the trend at the end of the Little Ice Age, and state that the world has warmed since the Little Ice Age.

Here are some additional linear regressions for some of the oldest data sets in the world - all show the same slight warming trend over centuries and climate variability.

The fact that ARGO sampling pretty much misses out one of the fastest warming regions in the world while having no such deficiencies in regions of cooling means any analysis using only ARGO data will produce trends lower than the true global average, unless the analysis somehow accounts for this bias.