Sentences with phrase «warm events more»

Perhaps there will be a 4th graph developed that demonstrates a warmer progression while also maintaining a higher variance that makes both cold events and warm events more likely.

Researchers study tiny fossilized organisms to better understand how global marine life was affected by a rapid warming event more than 55 million years ago.

Not exact matches

Christian and other faith communities around the world are hosting 120 events in 35 countries, all calling for governments, businesses and individuals to do more to reduce global warming.

As I've participated in conferences and events over the past couple years, I've noticed that some of the wisest and warmest people I've met have been Mennonites, so I've been trying to learn more about their theology and practice.

As the weather warms up, more events and parties start cropping up — graduations, end - of - the year school events, family gatherings, Memorial Day.

Experience dinner parties, food and drink events in our Downtown, outdoor dining in the warmer months and there is even more that invites you to partake and enjoy a night out with family and friends.

«Part of the challenge Syracuse faces is directly related to climate change, with colder winters, warmer summers, and more dramatic freeze - thaw events happening both earlier and later in the season,» she said.

While rules prohibit the newsletters, which update constituents about bills their legislators have passed and feature photos of the lawmakers at community events or important bill signings, from being distributed less than 30 days before an election, Lerner said the literature is more about self - aggrandizement and evoking «warm and fuzzy feelings» than providing constituent service.

In the normal course of events, the job of lieutenant governor doesn't mean much more than a bucket of warm spit, to quote former FDR vice president «Texas Jack» Garner, who in fact, may have been misquoted.

Today, ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising, oceans are warming, and weather events are becoming more extreme.

It is too soon to say whether climate change made these events more likely (see «Warmer and wetter?

So while it may take decades for warming at the sea surface to change deep - sea temperatures, alterations in wind - driven events may have more immediate effects.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

For more than 10 weeks beginning in January, sea temperatures were between 2 °C and 4 °C warmer than usual along a 2000 - kilometre stretch of coast — the area's most extreme warming event since records began.

So several different factors, each made more likely by global warming, combined to produce this very extreme event?

IN JANUARY, climate researchers warned that extreme El Niño events are likely to become more common as the planet warms.

It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no one weather event can be tied to warming temperatures.

The more melt events they observed in a given year, the warmer the summer.

As the climate continues to warm and produce more severe droughts, fires and tree die - off events across the western United States, the potential for widespread vegetation - type conversion is becoming increasingly plausible.

Release of methane hydrates has previously been suggested as a mechanism to drive runaway greenhouse events, as warming oceans releases trapped methane that causes further warming and releases more methane.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

Warmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurriWarmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurriwarmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurricanes.

«Instead, more than 1000 years of human occupation passed before a rapid warming event occurred, and then the megafauna were extinct within a hundred years.»

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

Dredging and sediment among the «stressors» Climate change is another threat, with warming oceans likely to lead to more extreme coral bleaching events, when corals lose the symbiotic algae that lend them their color.

Much of the focus of these side events has been on ways to ratchet up ambition, either through more private - sector engagement or through an emphasis on gaining more traction for a long - term goal of containing warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius below preindustrial levels, rather than the «well below 2» threshold enshrined in Paris.

All weather events are influenced by climate change as they now take place in a world more than 1 °C warmer than a century ago.

The body of several thousand atmospheric scientists, climatologists, glaciologists, oceanographers and other scientists, hailing from 154 countries, are more certain than ever that humanity is to blame for global warming, which may be linked to odd events like trees blossoming in the Luxembourg Garden here in the middle of winter.

«Estuaries like Chesapeake Bay could contribute more to global warming than once thought: Study explores role of methane release during dead zone and storm events.»

By reducing the vulnerability of the developing world to these extreme events, we'll have gone a long way to helping them adapt to the more serious things that might come about from global warming.

While several studies have predicted that toxic algae blooms may become more common in the future, this is one of the first studies to link the recent intensification of these events to ocean warming.

What's more, O'Gorman found that there's a narrow daily temperature range, just below the freezing point, in which extreme snow events tend to occur — a sweet spot that does not change with global warming.

And more water vapor worldwide is related to the atmosphere being warmer — we have about 7 percent more water vapor in the atmosphere now than we did in the 1950s, which is directly linked to the increase in heavy precipitation events.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

«The exact event won't happen again, but if we get the same sort of weather pattern in a climate that is even warmer than today's, then we can expect it to dump even more rain.»

But the risks are increasing in both regions, with such an event at least 40 percent more likely to occur in the springtime with warming, but up to 80 percent in the Seine region and 90 percent in the Loire.

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

In many instances, their research has shown that such events are made more intense in a warmer climate.

Furthermore there are signs, for parts of Europe, that global warming is making rare events more frequent.

Our research indicates they will be more frequent under climate warming,» said Dr. Yang Gao, a post-doctoral researcher and atmospheric scientist at PNNL, «causing increased flooding events.»

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

The planet is getting warmer, ocean temperatures are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, and all of the incontrovertible science of climate change is that more extreme - weather events are an inevitable consequence.

Many theorize that a warmer world would have more frequent and stronger «extreme» weather events, but they are not referring to temperature (instead: preciptation, tornado, hurricane, etc).

They found that the accumulation of greenhouse gases, which increases the chances of a record warm year every year they accumulate, made such an event 35 times more likely.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

However, extreme events may require the combined effect of increased prevailing winds and tropical storms guided by the strengthened blocking high pressure and nurtured by the unusually warm late - Eemian tropical sea surface temperatures (Cortijo et al., 1999), which would favor more powerful tropical storms (Emanuel, 1987).

Climate model projections show a warmer Montana in the future, with mixed changes in precipitation, more extreme events, and mixed certainty on upcoming drought.

Of the eight heat events examined — including ones in Argentina, Australia, South Korea, China and Europe — seven were clearly made more likely because of human - caused warming.