Sentences with phrase «warming increases experienced»

Not exact matches

Think about the increased comfort level your baby will experience if you will use warm wipes for them.

Thanks to global warming, waterways that make up important habitat for fish are likely to experience an increased frequency of such extreme conditions.

Overall, aquatic ecosystems in western North America are predicted to experience increasingly earlier snowmelt in the spring, reduced late spring and summer flows, warmer and drier summers, and increased water temperatures — all of which spell increased hybridization between these species.

A study assesses flood impacts for three scenarios — of 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming — and finds that most of Central and Western Europe will experience substantial increase in flood risk at all warming levels, and the higher the warming, the higher the risk.

The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.

So when wind pulls warm water up from down deep, the temperature difference experienced at the interface of the water and ice can effectively submerse the glacier in a hot bath, with some areas experiencing more than a 10-fold increase in melt rate.

Large areas of the world have already experienced an increase in extreme events, they found — and these risks will only worsen as the climate continues to warm.

Severe hurricanes, storm surges and an increase in the number of icebergs are just some of the changes planet Earth has experienced due to warming oceans over the last 20 years, according to a new report.

Professor Grant Bigg, from the University's Department of Geography, said: «Many people may associate warmer seas with the pleasant weather conditions they're used to experiencing while on holiday, but the fact of the matter is that an increase in sea temperatures is having a huge impact on the world's weather.

Such findings indicate that few places on Earth will be immune to global warming and that the tropics will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as increased tropical storm intensity.»

Mean, minimum, and maximum temperatures have been increasing across all seasons, with winter temperatures experiencing the most rapid warming.

The global warming that we have experienced so far has increased the atmosphere's moisture storage capacity by about seven per cent.

Oregon and Washington are the number one and two softwood - producing states in the nation, respectively; 20 these two states plus Idaho produce more than $ 11 billion in primary wood product sales.21 Our review of existing research suggests the Northwest's forests will experience significant potential impacts from climate change, in particular from wildfire — due to both increased drought and to wood damage from pests surviving warmer winters.

The northwestern US, including Montana, experiences increased precipitation and cooler temperatures, while the southern states are drier and warmer during La Niña events.

Although many parts of west Africa are experiencing increased rainfall as a result of global warming, in northern Ghana, which is mostly arid savanna, it's diminishing or becoming unpredictable.

This warmer color, coupled with the increased contrast, creates a reading experience that's a much closer match to the printed page.

«With strong demand and an increasing affinity for international brand hotels in Fuzhou, and as the first international five star hotel on Exhibition Island, we are very confident that the Sheraton Fuzhou's premier facilities and warm services will offer guests an unparalleled hospitality experience in this dynamic new business center.»

It's a theory now substantiated by physics and observations regarding total radiative forcing and sensitivity, and in our current case of warming attributable to increased forcing agents form human / industrial means we are experiencing a change in trends pertaining to weather events driven by total change factors.

The current warming the Earth has experienced can not be called cyclical, since the climate increasing its temperature at an exponential rate with no signs of cooling on the horizon (unless the unlikely event of the shutdown of the North Atlantic conveyor system occurs).

Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

Early 20th century warming was around.4 oC in three decades The global average temperature experienced an increase of +0.57 C between 1910 and 1944: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/annual Early 20th century was also about half anthropogenic I'm very curious about where you get this estimate from.

Here is what I actually said: ``... the climate alarmists maintain that Africa is already experiencing natural disasters — principally floods, droughts, malaria and other diseases, arising from unnatural global warming, and that these are causing increases in poverty, malnutrition, disease and environmental damage.

Current work1 has provided evidence of the increase in frequency and intensity of winter storms, with the storm tracks shifting poleward, 2,3 but some areas have experienced a decrease in winter storm frequency.4 Although there are some indications of increased blocking (a large - scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere, 5 the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remain an active research area.6 Some recent research has provided insight into the connection of global warming to tornadoes and severe thunderstorms.7, 8

They reported that «no catastrophic hurricane of category 4 or 5 intensity has made landfall in the Western Lake [northern Florida] area during the last 130 year documentary record» but «If future climatic changes, whether or not related to the anticipated greenhouse warming, lead to a return of a «hyperactive» hurricane regime characteristic of the first millennium A.D., then the northeastern Gulf Coast is expected to experience a dramatic increase in the frequency of strikes by catastrophic hurricanes.»

While Trenberth only draws your attention to anomalously warm sea surface temperatures, the east coast was experiencing record cold temperatures that increased the pressure gradient.

The IPCC reports that the risks associated with extreme weather events (heat waves, extreme precipitation, and the like) are moderately increased with the approximately 1 °C warming that we have already experienced (the recent report from the National Academies would support that conclusion) and that further warming will increase those risks.

Unless our ability to grow emissions increases greatly, which is unlikely due to constaints on our ability to produce and operate the productive capital, we can't see warming much higher that the beneficial rate we've experienced.

California is experiencing warmer baseline conditions, driven by climate change, that have increased the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California, and increased the chance that low rainfall years will produce drought.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

-LSB-...] Velasco Herrera described as erroneous predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pursuant to which the planet is experiencing a gradual increase in temperature, the so - called global warming.

Moreover, Bazzaz's experiments involved carbon dioxide concentrations at levels 100 % greater than those now existing in our atmosphere, whereas the greenhouse warming we are experiencing right now results from only a 20 % increase in world carbon dioxide levels.

Anthropogenic warming may therefore already have increased the risk of heatwaves such as the one experienced in 2003 (Stott et al., 2004).

On her diving trips she experiences the direct impacts of global warming and increasing acidification on coral reefs and fragile underwater ecosystems.

Although the current study is limited by the fact that the authors looked only at runoff and held other variables such as land cover constant, the results could be relevant to other regions that are likely to experience precipitation increases in a warming world.

The team found that, like many glaciers in this region, these two experienced a combination of warming temperatures and increased precipitation in recent years.

b. All nations agreed to limit the increase in global average temperatures to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels» — the level beyond which scientists believe the Earth will likely begin to experience rapid global warming and to «pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels», a warming amount which may also cause serious global harms particularly to many poor, vulnerable nations.

Jane Risen of the University of Chicago and Clayton Critcher of the University of California, Berkeley, provide evidence that belief in global warming increases along with the temperature one is currently experiencing.

The spatial extent of the areas experiencing decreased vegetation carbon increases monotonically with warming above +3 °C, as does the intermodel agreement on these reductions.

In contrast, model agreement on increases at +7 °C becomes less widespread than at lower warming, with the Tibetan Plateau, the Ethiopian Highlands, northeastern Siberia, and southwestern Canada still consistently experiencing higher.

Penguin species from farther north, the Chinstrap and Gentoo, have started moving in, while Adélie numbers are increasing farther south in a region that hasn't experienced as much warming.

«From 1910 - 1949 (pre-agricultural development, pre-DEV) to 1970 - 2009 (full agricultural development, full - DEV), the central United States experienced large - scale increases in rainfall of up to 35 % and decreases in surface air temperature of up to 1 °C during the boreal summer months of July and August... which conflicts with expectations from climate change projections for the end of the 21st century (i.e., warming and decreasing rainfall)(Melillo et al., 2014).»

If the globe has warmed 0.85 degrees C with a 40 percent increase in CO2 since preindustrial times, we have already experienced a sensitivity of a 1.65 C temperature increase for a doubling scenario.

That winter, John Holdren, President Obama's top science adviser, appeared in a video to say «the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak, is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues» — essentially endorsing Francis and Vavrus's hypothesis.

Some places, like the Himalayas and Greenland, with warmer temperatues will experience increased meltwater flows, because more areas are above 0 degrees celsius, which means more water, not less.

seeking this answer is what used to be called «science»; trying to explain why the prediction of continued accelerating global warming from the 52 % increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels since Hansen predicted this in 1988 has failed to materialize and trying to explain why the Earth has experienced no global warming for over a decade in spite of the 26 % increase in CO2 emissions from fossil fuels is what is funny

AGW is a hypothesis which says that we are currently experiencing unusual warming of the Earth, that it is caused by excess CO2 produced by man, acting through a feedback process, and that it will continue to increase to create high temperatures which will be of net disadvantage to humankind.

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 and that crop - level adaptations are projected to be able to increase yields when compared to similar scenarios that do not utilize adaptation.

By 2100, tropical regions would also experience warm spells lasting up to 50 percent longer in a 2 C world than at 1.5 C. «For heat - related extremes, the additional 0.5 C increase marks the difference between events at the upper limit of present - day natural variability and a new climate regime, particularly in tropical regions,» Schleussner said.

Our analyses show that California has historically been more likely to experience drought if precipitation deficits co-occur with warm conditions and that such confluences have increased in recent decades, leading to increases in the fraction of low - precipitation years that yield drought.

I think a modest temperature increase is, overall, beneficial (which is why I moved from NY to FL: ^) and that the large majority of the warming we have experienced is due to natural cycles not under human control.