Sentences with phrase «warming for centuries»

Each molecule of carbon dioxide, which is the most important long - lived manmade greenhouse gas, can remain in the atmosphere for as many as 1,000 years, making it more urgent to cut emissions in the near future, or face continued cumulative warming for centuries to come.

In other words, even though the ocean may be soaking up a considerable amount of warmth, it also commits the planet to warming for centuries, if not millenniums, as the University of Chicago climatologist David Archer detailed in The Long Thaw, a sobering book that lays out why, despite our focus on real - time weather events, we ain't seen nothing yet.

While there are some people who deny that the world has been warming for centuries (there are many people with fringe beliefs, like astrology), I don't see that they have any significant influence in the news media or Washington.

If we risk it any further, our descendants are still stuck in a world of warming for centuries.

I mean, the earth has been warming for centuries, so there should be hundreds of thousands of extinctions, where are they?

But CO2 is king in projections of warming for centuries, if not millenniums, to come.

Wool has been keeping the human race warm for centuries.

If the surface isn't warming for a century, the ocean (and thus to some extent sea ice) could still be warming that whole time just to catch up to a past surface warming.

The world has been warming for a century, and this warming is beyond any cyclical variation we have seen over the last 1000 or more years, and beyond the range of what we might expect from natural climate variations.

dalyp, sure, the oceans have been warming for a century, and Rob E's satellite data can explain that to your content in terms of clouds.

Actually, Girma, I do suspect that whatever caused the steady warming for a century and a half has changed, and it's the grin of the Cheshire Cat that tips me off.

Not exact matches

During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

Frozen for more than half a century, relations between the two nations exhibited small signs of a warming after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.

Today's post is thus born out of a love for the neglected kitchen, a strong tribute to the homemakers of the century — who needs waffles outside when you can make amazing ones within the warm comfort of your home, to accompany a freshly brewed Nespresso cuppa, a book or probing documentary, and mountains of whatever toppings you would like?

I don't know about you all, but I love waking up to these ~ 50 degree mornings, donning a cardigan, and using the seat warmer on the drive to work (I have a slight addiction to that feature, hooray for 21st century cars!).

Since its founding by steel magnate - turned - developer Henry Flagler at the turn of the century, Palm Beach has been the warm wintertime playground for the American elite.

The point is, humans have been soothed by warm water for centuries.

Tum Tum — For centuries, Asian parents have passed down the wisdom to keep baby's belly covered both to comfort and to keep warm.

''... For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.»

If these studies are closer to the true picture, models might be giving us accurate answers for warming over the next few decades, but underestimating warming over the next few centuries and more.

EVEN if the sun were to quieten down appreciably for the rest of this century, it would still be business as usual for global warming.

In a state famous for putting evolution on trial in the 20th century, teachers will now be able to avoid instructing students on the science behind global warming

It takes centuries longer for some effects to kick in fully, such as the oceans becoming poorer in oxygen as they slowly warm.

For more than half a century, the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica has provided researchers with the data needed to study everything from local amphibian and reptile populations to global warming.

Each of these phases lasted for decades, even as temperatures warmed overall during the course of the century.

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 study used simulations from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) run at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and examined warming scenarios ranging from 1.5 degrees Celsius all the way to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.

The new study's results show the Alaska Range has been warming rapidly for at least a century.

The basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, but it is in recent decades that the fundamental science of global warming has solidified

Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre - feet, about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, according to new research from the University of Arizona and Colorado State University.

And even for half that warming, ice - free conditions of up to 2 month a year are possible by the late 21st century.»

A 13th century Norwegian royal treatise called The King's Mirror lauds Greenland's suitability for farming: The sun has «sufficient strength, where the ground is free from ice, to warm the soil so that the earth yields good and fragrant grass.»

In one study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2007, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, estimated the mass redistribution resulting from ocean warming would shorten the day by 120 microseconds, or nearly one tenth of a millisecond, over the next two centuries.

All but one of the main trackers of global surface temperature are now passing more than 1 °C of warming relative to the second half of the 19th century, according to an exclusive analysis done for New Scientist.

It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries because of the warming that's already happened.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

The month was the 33rd warmest June for the U.S. as a whole, with average temperature 1.1 °F above the 20th century average of 68.5 °F.

It was minimum, or nighttime, temperatures that were particularly warm for June, hitting an average of 1.7 °F above the 20th century average of 55.7 °F.

However, Earth's crust and oceans would continue to warm — not just for decades but for centuries.

«It is said to have its origin in warm blood, and has an extravagant fondness for humans,» wrote the 14th - century Egyptian theologian Kamal ad - Din ad - Damiri.

«These areas are most susceptible to climate warming in the coming century in Antarctica, because they are the closest to the melt threshold,» says climatologist Andrew Monaghan of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in this study but reviewed the research.

The material on Amazon forest dieback was in the IPCC assessment as were the numbers on recent sea level (thought the IPCC did not use the information on recent contributions from land ice in their estimate for 21st century warming.)

The latest draft, seen by New Scientist, states that even following «a complete cessation of emissions... carbon dioxide - induced warming is projected to remain approximately constant for many centuries.

Researchers now have hard evidence that the circulation that helps warm the North Atlantic did indeed abruptly slow or perhaps even stop for centuries at a time more than 100,000 years ago.

Our planet has warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the century, but for reasons that aren't entirely clear, the Antarctic Peninsula — the stretch of land that reaches up toward South America — has warmed 4.5 degrees in just the past 50 years.

Moreover, climate models suggest that, by the end of this century, Antarctica will have warmed less compared to the Arctic,» says Marc Salzmann, a researcher at the Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig in Germany.

But they looked for 50 - year - long anomalies; the last century's warming, the IPCC concludes, occurred in two periods of about 30 years each (with cooling in between).

«We're now facing the potential for a warming of 2ºC or more in less than two centuries,» said Dr Dunkley Jones, «this is more than an order of magnitude faster than warming at the start of the PETM.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.