Sentences with phrase «warming over the next few centuries»

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.

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(Phys.org)-- Over the next century, most of the continents are on track to become considerably warmer, with more hot extremes and fewer cold extremes.

It appears there will be cooling, back tracking all of the 20th century warming, over the next few years.

Sea levels over the past few hundred years have been rising by around 8 inches per century, so the Sea level around New York City will rise by about a foot over the next hundred years, and this has nothing to do with global warming.

At best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualistically).

Until you do, I'm staying focused on the next century or so, when my nephews and neices and their future children will be struggling with the consequences of global warming over the next few decades.