Sentences with phrase «warmer regions like»

From cool climate regions in Tasmania and Victoria such as the Coal River and Yarra Valleys, through to warmer regions like McLaren Vale in South Australia and Frankland River in Western Australia.

Not exact matches

Climate change is set to make Miami warmer and wetter for more of the year, making the region an even more friendly home for mosquitoes, some of whom could bear diseases like Zika, Yellow Fever and Dengue.
Following recommendations offered by CoopeTarrazú agronomists, Araya also prepared for a roya (coffee - leaf rust) attack, which has begun to affect once - immune altitude regions like Tarrazú — her farm is located at 5,250 f. (1,600 m) above sea level — due to global warming.
The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.
And because of the location of the warmest water, some regions like Peru and Ecuador are also likely to experience fewer impacts.
An abundance of minerals containing ammonia on a relatively rocky world like Ceres is surprising, De Sanctis says, because the volatile compound of nitrogen and hydrogen can not persist long in the relatively warm and sunny regions of the inner solar system where Ceres now resides.
Low - lying coastal regions like Chile's are subject to advection fog, where warm ocean air crosses a band of cold water before reaching land.
The team found that warming had increased the chances of such extreme rainfall from a storm like Desmond in the region by about 40 percent, with a full range of between 5 and 80 percent.
Around 130,000 - 110,000 years ago (the Eemian interglacial), the Earth's climates were generally much like those of today, though perhaps somewhat warmer and moister in many regions.
The temperatures are still feeling a whole lot like summer here in the Niagara Region but we can dream of the cool fall days and coffee under warm blankets.
Students explore the global pattern and identify regions most affected by global warming, through a number of interactive resources produced by media services such as the BBC as well research organisation like NASA and the IPCC.
We like any convertible for the «fun» category, especially if you're retiring to a warm region of the globe.
A study has shown that the region's climate is much like that of France's Bordeaux: frost - free, with high rainfall in winter and warm, dry summers.
Natural advantages like spectacular beaches, warm tropical weather, cool mountain forests, and dry desert valleys are also a huge draw, but perhaps the biggest reason people are flocking to the region is economics.
Airlie's famous main street closes for the weekend to host two massive street parties featuring live entertainment plus you'll get to enjoy the regions warm winter days while taking in specialty events like the popular Comedy Gala and Frocktails fashion show.
For those who seek to curtail travel in a feeble attempt to fight global warming: Given the non-emergency that climate change has thus far proven to be and the real and dire crises that presently plague the planet, should we also deny transportation (by aid organizations and concerned citizens) to regions, like the Darfur or Sierra Leone, that require our immediate attention?
She and I agreed that, if anything, folks should be far more concerned about the tropics in a warming climate, given how many regions are close to physical limits for heat now and other factors, like fragmentation of rain forests and pollution impacts on reefs, are adding stress.
By the way, low clouds in darkness increase surface temperature, sort of like the inverse property of commonly understood Cosmic ray effect, not causing a cooling because there are more CR's, but rather a warming, which only low clouds in total darkness can do, so the probable CR temperature signal gets cancelled from one latitude dark vs bright region to the next.
I'm in the middle of writing a longer piece on proposed strategies for «living with fire» in regions like southern California — which are inherently prone to fire and face a growing hazard under trends linked to global warming.
The structure of the ocean circulation basically anchors this region to something like pre-industrial temperatures, at least until deep bottom water originating in the North Atlantic also warms.
Essentially, a lot of climate scientists say, these regions may start to feel more like deserts under the influence of global warming.
As long as the regions not covered warm up like the rest of the world, that does not change the global temperature curve.
Hampaturi region has different environments from jungle like valleys and warm weather to high peaks and very low temperatures, and is bountiful in slopes and thaw water.
As the planet warms, frozen ground called «permafrost» in high latitude - regions like Siberia and Alaska thaws out.
I'm not so worried about places like Cairns — but global warming could ruin inland farming regions like the Darling Downs.
Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.
The «warming hole» is a region over the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland, where long - term temperature maps suggest air temperatures have been cooling slightly over the last century, rather than warming like most of the rest of the world.
The East Coast elites, aging yuppies and metrosexual deadenders who bitterly cling to the CO2 - caused «global warming» religion are having a tough time... over the last 20 years, winters in the Northeast region of the U.S. have become more harsh and severe... that's opposite of their climate - doomsday cult leaders» predictions... instead of getting climate news from the likes of Al Gore and Brian Williams, Northeast denizens of elite enclaves might want to finally introduce themselves to what is called empirical evidence...
Thus, a slightly warmer atmosphere acts like a control knob to create a much warmer ocean and even faster warming polar region.
In northern latitudes during winter areas like Europe would much more affected by ocean warming - one would tropical like conditions during the winter in regions currently strongly affected by warmth of gulf stream - though the flow of gulf stream would greatly diminished, the ocean temperature would be significantly increased.
They still think that the Antarctic surface is warming, not cooling like you now believe because of this Hansen paper: «In contrast, the Southern Ocean (specifically the region where Antarctic sea ice forms) has been warming at 0.17 °C per decade.»
Now we are (in my Geographic region) going into Winter, and temperatures are decreasing a bit, but in the last 2 of December we had a warm day like end of Spring.
This was a nightmare scenario for many growers, and it showed us a snapshot of what global warming might look like in this region,» said Toby Ault, assistant professor in earth and atmospheric sciences, an author on the study.
(The hurricane over land like signature that has become all - too - common during recent years as the Earth has continued to warm is plainly visible over the Kashmir region on September 5 of 2014.
It simply asserts an extended warm drought like those to be expected in the region in the future.
This is not simply a question of «turbulent diffusion» by the atmosphere but also of wave - like «teleconnections» propagating away from regions of tropical convection that are altered by the pattern of tropical warming.
«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»
«Some or all of these processes will be enough, Lovelock estimates, to tip the earth into a catastrophic hotter state, perhaps about eight degrees centigrade warmer in temperate regions like ours, over the course of a very few decades, and that heat will in turn make life as we know it nearly impossible in many places.
Since the whole world does not appear to freeze during a ice age, the must be massive ice making going at the pole driven by heat lifting oceans of water to the sky from the equator where it is pushed by the expanding air and vapor to the poles areas where it returns to the surface and follows cold land like a culvert between warmer expanding ocean air back down to the equatoral region.
If that is the case, here is the problem: existing policy proposals do not, as far as I know, supply even «fuzzy» benefits — something like (don't pick on the numbers — I pulled them out of my nether region as an example only): Best case: RCP8.5, TCS 6.0, estimated reduced warming: 5C GMST by 2100 Worst case: RCP2.0, TCS 1.4, estimated reduced warming: 0.2 C GMST by 2100 Estimated costs per 1C increase in GMST: $ 150B p.a.
Like AGW or making out it is getting warmer by interpolating it across cooler regions where instrument data has historically been sparse (e.g. in the southern hemisphere and at sea), before an average can be taken.
These predictions are especially important in vulnerable regions like the Arctic, which is expected to warm considerably this century, and which holds a vast amount of carbon in the tundra.
The team found that, like many glaciers in this region, these two experienced a combination of warming temperatures and increased precipitation in recent years.
Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..
It is worth noting that wildfire incidences like this one, which are occurring across the globe now more frequently, with greater severity, and causing more damage than ever, also function as yet another feedback loop in regard to ACD: As the planet warms, arid regions dry further, causing more wildfires, which warm the planet further, and so the cycle amplifies itself.
Large temperature spikes like the current global warming would have shown up in the proxy record as changes in the type of plants growing in the mid latitudes as is seen with the northward shift of the growing regions at present.
In a ground - breaking new paper (Lansner and Pepke Pedersen, 2018) published in the journal Energy and Environment, an analysis of land surface instrumental records from across the globe's ocean air sheltered (OAS) regions reveals that, like the proxy evidence presented above, most of the modern era warming occurred prior to the 1940s, and the there has effectively been no net warming since then.
Where meltwater forms on the ice - shelf surface, it can wedge open crevasses and cause ice - shelf disintegration, much like a line of balanced dominoes falling over, which has been observed to occur within weeks in the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula region (e.g., MacAyeal et al., 2003).
Climate scientists like James E. Hansen predict that methane clathrates in the permafrost regions will be released because of global warming, unleashing powerful feedback forces which may cause runaway climate change that can not be halted.
What we — and other competent researchers — have all found is that the warmth was far more regional than modern warmth, with some large regions, like the tropical Pacific, having been unusually * cold * at the time, and when you average over the globe, the warmth of the medieval warm period / medieval climate anomaly simply doesn't reach modern warmth.
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