Sentences with phrase «warming climate change greater»

Early 20th century global warming climate change greater during a low atmospheric CO2 environment.

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Like any good entrepreneur, Leo wouldn't let me talk about the app here, but I assure you, it's a great idea, and focuses on Leo's big interest in global warming and climate change.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.

400,000 marched in NYC on September 21 to demand action on climate change - a great march that, unfortunately, has done little to change the politics of global warming at the state or federal level.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

The warming climate threatens to thaw permafrost, which will result in the release of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere creating feedbacks to climate change — more warming and greater permafrost thaw.

There is probably no greater scientific heresy today than questioning the warming role of CO2, especially in the wake of the report issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact the climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and his colleagues in Great Britain, Norway and the United States.

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

Climate Change: The Last Great Global Warming (p 56) The levels of carbon dioxide release and current speed of warming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suWarming (p 56) The levels of carbon dioxide release and current speed of warming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suwarming across the globe could lead to extinctions on a scale worse than previously thought, an article in this month's Scientific American suggests.

And you (or whoever is on your side) get a warming rate of 0.40 ºC / decade or greater - indicating that future climate change will be extreme.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

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Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

«Somewhat counter-intuitively, a land — sea surface warming ratio greater than unity during transient climate change is actually not mainly a result of the differing thermal inertias of land and ocean, but primarily originates in the differing properties of the surface and boundary layer (henceforth BL) over land and ocean (Manabe et al. 1991; Sutton et al. 2007; Joshi et al. 2008 (henceforth JGW08), Dong et al. 2009) as well as differing cloud feedbacks (Fasullo 2010; Andrews et al. 2010).»

And you (or whoever is on your side) get a warming rate of 0.40 ºC / decade or greater - indicating that future climate change will be extreme.

Indeed, snowfall is often predicted to increase in many regions in response to anthropogenic climate change, since warmer air, all other things being equal, holds more moisture, and therefore, the potential for greater amounts of precipitation whatever form that precipitation takes.

Since this goes along with an increasing greenhouse effect and a further global warming, a better understanding of the carbon cycle is of great importance for all future climate change predictions.

At this point the variations in weather are, at any single location, greater than the warming from climate change.

We found that the term global warming is associated with greater public understanding, emotional engagement, and support for personal and national action than the term climate change.

In his great talk on why climate change is simple, David Roberts explained what scientists predict the world will look like at various levels of warming.

Most are not, but many of the rest have read a great deal on the science of global warming and climate change, as opposed to the rhetoric.

Although there is still some disagreement in the preliminary results (eg the description of polar ice caps), a lot of things appear to be quite robust as the climate models for instance indicate consistent patterns of surface warming and rainfall trends: the models tend to agree on a stronger warming in the Arctic and stronger precipitation changes in the Topics (see crude examples for the SRES A1b scenarios given in Figures 1 & 2; Note, the degrees of freedom varies with latitude, so that the uncertainty of these estimates are greater near the poles).

Another question we must ask is: will greater numbers of hurricanes of Category 4 or 5 strength make landfall as a result of climate change (due to SSTs warming along with, but at a slower rate and with some time lag as, the atmosphere)?

Past warmings are not an analogue for our present situation, which to my mind places a greater burden of proof on climate scientists regarding evidence for climate change.

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.

My opinion is that, putting global warming and climate change aside, we have much greater evidence of the difficult future caused by land degradation, shrinking drinkable water supplies, collapsing fish stocks, and the troubles that will be caused to the economy and society as supply of oil and gas supplies shrink and energy becomes too expensive.

The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the trend is for more warming.

Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»

And if the warming over the rest of the world is not attributable to greenhouse gases or «solar output», then «the greater climate change near the pole compared to the rest of the hemisphere or globe» is not attributable to them.

What is more, in lieu of our warming world and climate change, the need for environmentally sustainable industries like hemp has never been greater.

In Addendum: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (pp. 26 - 28), Michaels and his colleague Chip Knappenberger discuss those studies in greater detail and also illustrate with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming projections should be adjusted in light of more recent climate sensitivity reClimate Change Impacts in the United States (pp. 26 - 28), Michaels and his colleague Chip Knappenberger discuss those studies in greater detail and also illustrate with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming projections should be adjusted in light of more recent climate sensitivity reclimate sensitivity research.

The timing is no great surprise: the world's political leaders will gather at the UN climate change conference in Paris in December to decide on an international programme to limit global warming.

«[The subjects raised] made for a decent scientific debate 15 years ago, but the questions have since been settled... The Great Global Warming Swindle raised old debates that are going to be latched on to and used to suggest that we don't need to do anything about climate change.

Thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence and improved computer models that can project climate changes more accurately and in much finer detail, each report has proclaimed with greater and greater certainty that human activity is the main cause of global warming.

The authors find that, without adaptation, projected corn, rice and wheat production is reduced when areas experience 2.0 °C or more of local warming, with losses greater in the second half of the century due to larger changes in climate.

Speaking of Albert Einstein, he had an answer for those continually trying to claim that there is a consensus for their flawed, unproven hypothesis regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate change or what ever the charlatans now call it: «Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of the truth» Albert Einstein.

3) Agenda 3.1) Trenberth's unstated agenda and assertion is that: Anthropogenic global warming will cause catastrophic climate change with great suffering and massive economic loss.

The Great Global Warming Swindle, like Against Nature, had a huge impact, persuading many people that manmade climate change is not taking place.

The instability of AMOC is one of the great open questions remaining in our understanding of climate change, one of the ongoing explorations into global warming's «degree and extent.»

Thank you for agreeing that there are other factors at work in global warming and bearing in mind the strength of those as demonstrated by climate history then any claim that man - made factors are anywhere near as large as 100 % or greater are going to have to demonstrate the current and past natural changes and how they interact.

In fact, it is precisely because «the discussion about the causes of global warming was to a very great extent settled by the date of broadcast», meaning that climate change was no longer a matter of political controversy, that a programme claiming it is all a pack of lies could slip past the partiality rules.

Climate change causes warmer springs that lead birds such as the great tits, the blue tits, and pied flycatcher hatching too late to catch their main food source.