Sentences with phrase «triggered warming decades»

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A decade of ice melt and warming seas will trigger a climate catastrophe, the researchers said, releasing up to 50 billion tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

Scientists have had strong evidence for decades that fossil fuel emissions are increasing average global temperatures, and they have long expected that this warming would trigger extreme weather events.

I would give odds on for 10 to 30 years of no warming, even money for a longer term cooling and a dead set certainty for eventually triggering OHC and ice sheet feedbacks and plunging into a glacial in a decade.

such a triggering warming occurs over decades to centuries....

When a full - depth ocean model is used, something intriguing happens: the loss of Arctic sea ice triggers a far - flung response that mimics climate change itself, including a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a build - up of heat in the tropical oceans over several decades, and a warming of the atmosphere a few miles above the tropics.