Sentences with phrase «warmer regions of the world»

Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions of the world.

The highest levels are usually found in commodities from warmer regions of the world where there is a great deal of climatic variation.

Not exact matches

The melting of the arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.

World regions that will bear the brunt of global warming's impact on food include India, Mexico and southern Africa

To investigate why the warm winds were so persistent, lasting 350 years, the team combined their data with information from other regions of the world.

Muscles must stay warm to remain efficient, but that's a challenge for these beasts because they often swim in near - freezing waters, either in cold regions of the world or deep below the sun - warmed surface.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

Sugarcane or Sugar cane is a genus of tall grasses native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past century.

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.

Closer to the poles the emergence of climate change in the temperature record appeared later but by the period 1980 - 2000 the temperature record in most regions of the world were showing clear global warming signals.

Researchers carried out the first in - depth audit of its kind for a region in the UK to see how biodiversity might be impacted in Norfolk as the world warms.

A warming world has spurred these changes, researchers conclude, because the total number of flowers has declined in this region — and the shorter tongue enables the bees to suck nectar from more kinds of flowers.

Dr Nikolaos Skliris, a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton who led the study, said: «Our findings match what has been predicted by models of a warming climate; as the world gets warmer wet regions will continue to get wetter and dry regions will continue to get drier.

The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a warmer world, but evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.

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

Geologists studying a region in the Mexican state of Veracruz have discovered evidence to explain the origin of the Wilcox Formation, one of Mexico's most productive oil plays, as well as support for the theory that water levels in the Gulf of Mexico dropped dramatically as it was separated from the rest of the world's oceans and Earth entered a period of extreme warming.

Upper ocean temperatures have warmed significantly in most regions of the world over recent decades, with anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing very likely being the main contributor21.

Average temperatures in the region are already 2.7 °F higher than the 1971 - 2000 average — twice as much as the warming seen in other parts of the world.

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.

Just days later, a real - time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent — a small, but clear, effect, the scientists say.

With the Arctic warming twice as fast compared to the rest of the world, the region's summer sea ice has declined by about 30 percent since 1979.

Why It Matters: The Arctic is warming faster than any other region of the world.

Eight countries are set to agree a ministerial statement on cooperation in the region, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.

The researchers also looked at the changing likelihood of «extremely warm summers,» defined as the real - world summer in each region with the highest average wet bulb globe temperature between 1973 and 2012.

Higher air and water temperatures in the Arctic — the fastest warming region in the world — are two of the main culprits spurring the decline.

Some of the Earth's ecosystems host an exceptionally high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in warm semi-arid regions support 20 % of the world's plant species on 5 % of the land surface.

Many regions of the world are already tapping geothermal energy as an affordable and sustainable solution to reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and the global warming and public health risks that result from their use.

Climate change is warming the Arctic twice as fast as the rest of the world, melting sea ice to historically low levels and threatening the viability of the region's vibrant ecosystems.

El Niño and La Niña can bring anomalously cool or warm, or dry or wet, conditions to different regions of the world.

Though some of the most carbon - rich forests in the U.S. exist in national forests in the Pacific Northwest, national park officials throughout the region are talking about the parks» role in storing carbon in a warming world.

Wild yam is also a member of the Dioscorea genus, contains about 600 species spread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions of the world.

With its warm tropical weather, breathtaking beaches, tropical rainforest and rugged outback, it's no wonder people from all over the world flock to this region of Far North Queensland every year.

Cotton in various forms is native to the warm regions of both the Old and New Worlds.

«Because they harbor so much of the world's biodiversity, mountain regions are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of tourism, climate change, and global warming,» says Linda McMillan, UIAA Mountain Protection Commission president and Deputy Vice-Chairman, IUCN - WCPA Mountains Biome.

Dive with docile whale sharks, the world s largest fish, at Ningaloo Reef between April and June, swim with wild bottlenose dolphins in the warm waters of Monkey Mia and get up close to sea lions, manta rays, dugongs and humpback whales, explore the charming old pearling port of Broome and take a camel ride down Cable Beach at sunset, fly over the beehive shaped domes of the Bungle Bungle Range, boat down the huge, manmade Lake Argyle at Kununurra, explore the wineries and beaches of the Margaret River region, cruise spectacular Geikie and Windjana Gorges in the remote and rugged Kimberley, see the stark outback come alive with glorious wildflowers in winter and early spring and enjoy the sophisticated delights of Perth and the historic port of Fremantle.

At CTRC, he joined forces with Audrey Palmer Hawks, then Director General of the Caribbean Tourism Association, to create a strong marketing programme to help propel the Caribbean region into the limelight as the leading warm weather destination in the world.

Hotel University, located right in the cradle of the culture of the region, near the oldest university in the world, next to the Municipal Theatre... Read more and the National Art Gallery, It is a real living in the city for who is looking for an elegant and warm atmosphere that only small structures can offer.

These frost - intolerant salvias hail from warmer regions of the new world.

Climate changes in past centuries were significant in some parts of the world, but they were often opposite (e.g. warm vs. cold) in different regions at any given time, in sharp contrast with the global synchrony of 20th century warming.

Conservationists say that adding to the water capacity of the Las Vegas area, which already has 1.8 million residents, could just foster more growth in a region that, especially in a warming world, is the last place to consider expanding human settlements.

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 7,000 islands of the Philippines sit in the middle of the world's most storm - prone region, which gets some of the biggest typhoons because of vast expanses of warm water that act as fuel and few pieces of land to slow storms down.

The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is practically the only region of the world that has defied global warming and even cooled.

In his media critique, Romm cites a March paper on evidence for expansion of malaria into highland regions of the world as a result of warming.

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.

As long as the regions not covered warm up like the rest of the world, that does not change the global temperature curve.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

The same simulations found that — were the world to achieve the 1.5 °C global warming limit which 195 nations agreed upon at the Paris climate summit in 2015 — then the Mediterranean region would experience only 3.2 months of drought.

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.