Sentences with phrase «warmer climates due»

They are a poor fit for warmer climates due to their thick double coats.

They are a breed that is well - adapted to and perfect for warmer climates due to their thin skin and coats.

It has a lot to do with water stored in soils, which gets lost faster in a warmer climate due to higher evaporation rates.

[Response: What if we postulate a feedback between ozone depletion, which causes people to get better sun tans, warming the climate due to decreasing planetary albedo?

Not exact matches

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

Indeed due to the warmer climate in Australia, our bees tend to produce honey that is far superior in MGO levels.

Jonathan Nichols, a Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory Research Professor at Columbia University who specializes in climate science, focuses his research on whether warming temperatures will cause Arctic peat bogs to decay or expand due to improved growing conditions, a question that could alter the levels of carbon the bogs have long absorbed.

As the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Times.

However, the gap between the calculated and measured warming is not due to systematic errors of the models, as the skeptics had suspected, but because there are always random fluctuations in Earth's climate.

Similarly, a suggestion to build a compacted snow runway at McMurdo might prove unworkable due to climate change — seasonal warming over the last three seasons has made it difficult for wheeled aircraft to land there.

«The fact that we don't see the presently understood meteorological signature of global warming in changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.

«Using a numerical climate model we found that sulfate reductions over Europe between 1980 and 2005 could explain a significant fraction of the amplified warming in the Arctic region during that period due to changes in long - range transport, atmospheric winds and ocean currents.

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity can not explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed — the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate - cooling clouds.

A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) study found that between 53 and 97 percent of natural trout populations in the Southern Appalachian region of the U.S. could disappear due to warmer temperatures predicted by global climate change models.

Arctic warming, due to climate change, may have played some role, scientists say.

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

The last national climate assessment, released in 2014, also concluded that recent warming was mostly due to humans, but didn't give a confidence level (SN Online: 5/6/14).

In the long run, he said, he expects an uptick in wildfires in Colorado due to a warmer and drier climate there.

One of the most popular eating fish on the U.S. east coast is moving north as waters warm due to climate change

«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.

And while the blob was a one - time event that was not due to global warming, it provides a window into what climate change might look like.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

«Either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand,» says study author Michael Tippett, a climate scientist at Columbia University.

«Ecuador: Deforestation destroys more dry forest than climate change: Study compares dry forest losses due to land use change or global warming.»

Multiple high - resolution climate models confirmed that the increasing trend is due mainly to human - caused global warming.

A warm bias in sea surface temperature in most global climate models is due to a misrepresentation of the coastal separation position of the Gulf Stream, which extends too far north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Unexpectedly, this more detailed approach suggests changes in Antarctic coastal winds due to climate change and their impact on coastal currents could be even more important on melting of the ice shelves than the broader warming of the ocean.

Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, but data on climate trends over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite observations began.

«Due to climate warming, we could be looking at their food resource declining over the next 100 years — or sooner if there's a catastrophic forest fire or a major bark beetle infestation.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

Warmer air temperatures due to climate change could thaw much of the existing permafrost layer in the northern hemisphere.

While the study suggests past surges in temperature have boosted conflicts, it doesn't necessarily follow that steady warming due to climate change over the coming decades will have the same effect.

The discovery of genes involved in the production of DMSP in phytoplankton, as well as bacteria, will allow scientists to better evaluate which organisms make DMSP in the marine environment and predict how the production of this influential molecule might be affected by future environmental changes, such as the warming of the oceans due to climate change.

However, it says the observed changes in fire activity are in line with long - term, global fire patterns that climate models have projected will occur as temperatures increase and droughts become more severe in the coming decades due to global warming.

Mad dogs, Englishmen and El Niño And, according to climate experts at the University of Reading, forecasts suggest that conditions in Brazil may get a lot warmer in the coming months due to the possible development of an El Niño weather system.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

But as ocean temperatures increase due to climate warming, their emission rates could potentially rise by 20 percent between 2010 and 2100.

Climate projections need to account for enhanced warming due to global warming feedbacks as discussed by James Zachos, professor of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in St. Louis in Feb, 2006.

The world is warming due to the release of CO2 by fossil fuel burning This will change the climate unless we reduce CO2 emissions.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

They are probably biased due to emphasis on one part of the world such as the North Atlantic / Europe region... It is probably better to view the climate changes during the last 2,000 years in terms of cool and warm centuries in various parts of the world.

Studies such as Otto et al. (2012) display how the numerical scale of the simulation numbers allows for clear separation between a climate with lower level of heat - trapping gases (1960s) and the recent period (2000s), such that the 2010 heat wave in western Russia was more likely to occur with the additional warming due to climate change (Figure 3).

High above the Arctic Circle, Lake Hazen and its surrounding watershed are undergoing rapid changes due to climate warming.

«Understanding such processes is especially important today since oxygen in the ocean is decreasing, largely due to the warming of ocean waters driven by climate change,» said the study's lead author Andrew Margolin, a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science and an alumnus of the UM Rosenstiel School.

Using thus 10 different climate models and over 10,000 simulations for the weather@home experiments alone, they find that breaking the previous record for maximum mean October temperatures in Australia is at least six times more likely due to global warming.

Areas west of the Continental Divide typically exhibit milder winters, cooler summers, and a longer growing season due to the influence of warm Pacific air masses (see Climate chapter).

Resolving the climate challenge will take decades, but we must get started, since some additional warming is already «locked - in» due to inertia in the climate system.