Sentences with phrase «warming impact by»

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The warming impact could be 100,000 times greater than the carbon dioxide emitted by the same spacecraft.

The rising cost of oil, its impact on global warming, the geopolitical risks associated with oil dependency (especially as fuel for automobiles), followed more recently by the rise of cost effective alternatives presents a «change the world» opportunity for Apple.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

The impact of a spanking from a warm and normally flexible parent followed by a reasonable explanation the child can understand, is likely quite different from the impact of spanking from a cold and strict parent with no explanation.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payments.

[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

Whether global warming is caused by man or not it's only prudent to do what we can to lessen our impact on the environment.

REV offers a unique opportunity to allow the state to navigate through the challenges posed by its need to modernize its energy grid while mitigating its impact on global warming.

But he added that conservatives also were bending the truth by insisting there was no relationship between global conflict and the impacts of warming.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

If sunlight must penetrate the dust covering a comet's water ice in order to warm it and produce jets, Sunshine says the Deep Impact findings suggest the ices on such dormant comets may not have run out but merely become sealed — by layers of debris, for example.

As the climate warms, researchers expect more dusts to make their way aloft, possibly having impacts on precipitation by changing where rain or snow falls.

Recent modelling by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm enough.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

Christmas Island's location makes it a model location to study the role of warming on reefs, but it also has a diverse array of reefs — from ones impacted by human fishing to ones that are in pristine condition — that make it ideal to see how different influences play out.

It's an odd scenario — death by freezing in a warming world — but one that could have profound impacts on one of the most culturally and economically important trees in Alaska as it dies out and other, less valuable trees take its place.

Already, cities such as New York have adopted a risk - management approach to potential climate impacts — preparing for the prospects posed by already guaranteed global warming.

Although there could be many reasons for these outcomes, the research supports the idea that motives for giving in online platforms, such as JustGiving.com, could be driven by «relational warm - glow,» that is, People are motivated by the idea of helping their friends achieve their fundraising goals — it makes the fundraiser feel good and this in turn impacts on the people who've made the donations.

Responding to many scientists» concerns, the report stresses that the many impacts of global warming won't be solved by any single technology.

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.

The meeting, called by the White House, will hear experts discuss the impacts of global warming on human health.

Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate could boost the number of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.

«But this flying fox may be the best example of a mammal species likely to be negatively impacted by warming global climates.

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.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

Professor Chen remarked, «Among the extensive and far - reaching impacts of global warming, human health and labour productivity are most directly affected by thermal discomfort and heat - related morbidity and mortality.

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

«If you can time your emissions so they have the least impact then you will not trigger these very sensitive regions to start warming by this ice albedo feedback process.»

«There are characteristic patterns of increase and decrease, for example, in response to an El Nino event,» which is a cyclical climate event marked by warming waters in the western Pacific Ocean that has global impacts, Zwiers says.

However, scientists say it is important to study the PETM because it is perhaps the best past event by which to understand the potential impacts of global climate warming seen today.

It can be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the world:

But overall, the global warming impact of metals is still dominated by the old - school elements iron and aluminum.

We were convinced by Chelsea Whyte's discussion of going vegan (27 January, p 26) and the huge global warming impact...

Streamflow reduced by 19 percent in the east watershed and 23 percent in the west, suggesting that warmer temperatures may have more impact on streams than a transition from snow to rain.

We were convinced by Chelsea Whyte's discussion of going vegan (27 January, p 26) and the huge global warming impact of livestock farming.

The European Union in the draft reaffirmed its commitment to the joint developed - world pledge to mobilize at least $ 100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries cope with the impacts of global warming.

It also has by far the biggest impact on global warming, and ocean acidification.

The CTD sections show that the deeper layers are also warmer and slightly saltier and the observed sea level can be explained by steric expansion over the upper 2000 m. ENSO variability impacts on the northern part of the section, and a simple Sverdrup transport model shows how large - scale changes in the wind forcing, related to the Southern Annular Mode, may contribute to the deeper warming to the south.

While El Niño is a cyclical climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean — marked by warmer ocean temperatures in the tropics and a weakening of the usual easterly trade winds — it can impact weather around the globe.

Clearly these are issues that physical scientists can impact by careful presentation of data and interpretations concerning changes to the physical environment in a warming world.

«A much - discussed idea to offset global warming by injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere would have a drastic impact on Earth's protective ozone layer, new research concludes.

Jacobson's work is original and important in showing that cooling by global dimming is less, and less important, than the various warming impacts of this pollution.

An international team led by CSIRO researcher Mark Hemer has begun studying how global warming will influence the generation of swells and what impact that may have on sandy coastlines such as Australia's.

Thus, impacts could be greater than would be indicated by only considering warmer winter temperatures (Buotte et al. 2016).

Most also recognize that such global agreements are the most difficult to come by, and that local protection strategies and efforts to reduce stressors on corals and marine life are important steps in at least staving off the impacts of ocean acidification and global warming.

It showed, surprisingly, that drought stress is driven as much by growing season temperatures as winter snowpack.Carswell is deftly layering in the science and building a case about the impact of future warming.

Significant changes in the circulation of the ocean could likewise impact fisheries in the United States that can be devastated by warming waters, thereby affecting livelihood and food source.

Thus it can mask the full impact that greenhouse gas emissions have on climate change by temporarily negating some of the warming.

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.