Sentences with phrase «warming not worsening»

Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes By SETH BORENSTEIN May 18, 2008 (AP) http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4880813

Interesting title: «Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes ``, when the study only seems to suggest that the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes isn't being heightened by warming, while intensity remains a different story.

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Policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work was also cited by IPCC, said that the report cherry - picked not only from among the literature to select a paper that delivered the conclusion it hoped to highlight — that a warming globe was worsening economic losses from disasters — but also from within Muir - Wood's paper.

If coal is to remain a part of our energy future, it must be mined responsibly, burned cleanly and guaranteed to not worsen global warming pollution.

Scientists like Emanuel prefer to speak about climate - related factors that can worsen hurricanes, like Harvey, in specific ways — and about the ways in which certain attributes of Harvey seem consistent with what to expect, more generally, in a warming climate, even if they can't be causally attributed to it.

«Harvey was not caused by climate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to human - caused global warming,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in a statement.

Won't it worsen my stomach if I drink warm water with lemon on an empty stomach?

Those actions will cut the adding of more GHGs slowing the worsening of global warming, but will not reverse the present effects occurring.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Scientists believe some, though not all, of those events were caused or worsened by human - induced global warming.

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Warming does not necessarily mean a worsening climate and the reliable evidence to support the claims that it will is extremely weak to any unbiased researcher.

False solutions are solutions that are promoted as effective means to fight climate change when in fact not only they do not help in cutting emissions and slowing down warming (in some cases even worsening the already precarious situation), but they shift the focus away from real solutions.

Lolwot Can you please point to something that you believe has worsened for humanity as a result of it getting warmer over the past few decades that is not easily adapted to via taking the steps any society should, i.e. building proper infrastructure?

But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial of water to over a billion people; The deaths of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?

Lomborg is also right to note that even if we're worried about worsening hurricanes due to global warming, it doesn't necessarily follow that our most immediate policy solution should simply be to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Though perhaps not the only culprit, global warming has intensified these trends and will likely make life in these western states more difficult over the coming years as its effects continue to worsen.

Global climate engineering programs not only worsening the overall warming of the biosphere, but also destroying the ozone layer, derailing the hydrological cycle, and contaminating the entire planet due to the highly toxic heavy metal and chemical fallout.

Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann said Sunday that, while global warming didn't cause Hurricane Harvey, it surely «worsened» the effects of the storm through higher sea levels and increased atmospheric moisture.