Sentences with phrase «warming scientists expect»

(To see an interesting graphic representation of the kind of warming scientists expect, check out this cartoon.)

The new report, for example, slightly reduces the lower end of the estimated uncertainty range for the amount of warming scientists expect in response to a doubling of CO2 concentrations compared to preindustrial levels.

Not exact matches

We must reckon with the likelihood of even worse storms, heat waves, fires, and droughts as the Earth warms — because scientists expect even this «new normal» to get worse.

These are the types of storms climate scientists to expect to see more of in a warmer world.

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

Warmer air traps more water vapor, and scientists expect that additional water to fall in already wet parts of the Earth.

From the basic physics of the atmosphere, scientists expect that as the planet heats up from ever - mounting levels of greenhouse gases, net global precipitation will increase because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor says that early results from some of the orbiter's instruments show that the surface is slightly warmer than expected — an indication that it is more dusty and porous than icy.

While 2014 temperatures continue the planet's long - term warming trend, scientists still expect to see year - to - year fluctuations in average global temperature caused by phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña.

Scientists know that a warming climate can be expected to gradually sap oceans of oxygen, leaving fish, crabs, squid, sea stars, and other marine life struggling to breathe.

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming's heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land.

«The more greening you get, the more warming you expect,» said Richard Pearson, lead author of the study and a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato from the University of Southampton, the lead scientist of DynOPO, said: «The Orkney Passage is a key chokepoint to the flow of abyssal waters in which we expect the mechanism linking changing winds to abyssal water warming to operate.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

Scientists have generally expected animals to get smaller as the planet warms, as research on the interactions in food webs has focused mainly on the effects of temperature.

In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

Scientists have modelled the expected temperature drop over the 21st century due to waning solar activity — and they found that the change is likely to be dwarfed by the much bigger warming effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Gore indicated that it is primarily Hurricane intensities which scientists largely agree should be expected to increase in association with warming surface temperatures, and specifically notes that

But since climate scientists already expect a wide range of negative consequences from rising temperatures, including higher sea level, more weather extremes and increasing risks to human health, anything that accelerates warming is a concern.

Scientists have had strong evidence for decades that fossil fuel emissions are increasing average global temperatures, and they have long expected that this warming would trigger extreme weather events.

Most scientists expect the increase in the number of strong hurricanes as the climate warms to be at the expense of smaller ones, meaning fewer overall.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Clouds can increase warming in the changing Arctic region more than scientists expected, according to a new study published Dec. 10 in the journal Nature Communications.

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.

Extreme heavy downpours are consistent with what climate scientists expect in a warming world.

Most scientists then expected warming, not cooling, and the NAS officially reported that there was insufficient evidence to make a prediction.

I've written previously about a valuable proposal by some scientists to start planning a long - term conservation strategy focused on regions of the Arctic where sea ice is expected to persist even with substantial warming.

And if weird weather matches my understanding of what we expect to see as expressing the climate changes produced by global warming, I think it is my duty to say so, and I hope more climate scientists find ways to say so as well.

Even if the world meets the terms of the Paris Agreement, scientists expect 2.7 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, far more than the agreement calls for, which is 1.5 to 2 degrees.

The Zwally paper that established that Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate, as all scientists expect in a warming world?

Extreme heavy downpours are consistent with what climate scientists expect in a warming world.

Suddenly scientists found that global warming could come twice as fast as expected — in their children's lifetimes or even their own.

The record level is expected to be the latest global warming milestone chronicled by the Mauna Loa Observatory, which was started by renowned climate scientist Dave Keeling in 1958.

She continues by emphasizing the too - little appreciated fact that — in the words of climate scientist Susan Solomon — «atmospheric temperatures... are not expected to decrease significantly even if the carbon emissions cease» and that warming is essentially irreversible over a «time scale exceeding the end of the millennium in year 3000.»

Yale University scientists reported that they may have resolved a controversial glitch in models of global warming: A key part of the atmosphere didn't seem to be warming as expected.

The crucial question is which sort of clouds will be favoured in the warmer world most scientists expect.

As their «science» continues to be exposed and discredited by genuine scientists and astute researchers, we can expect their noisy chorus to get even noisier, in a desperate attempt to push through a new UN climate regime in Paris — before taxpayers completely pull the plug on their global - warming gravy train.

AGW mainstream scientists would say that before 1950 CO2 contributed about 0.3 C of warming, which may be hard to see against the background, but after 1950 it is more like another 0.6 C on top, that was as expected, which is rather easier to see.

But as the summer progressed, El Niño didn't form the way scientists expected it to: sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific never warmed enough to truly be called an El Niño, and the buzz fizzled out.

Their solution: to send an elite team of top scientists forward in time, to a point long after the Tobacco Wars are over, when everyone knows smoking causes lung cancer, the miniskirt has given way to the upskirt, Global Cooling has become Global Warming, and the last thing anybody expects is a guerrilla marketing attack from nicotine shills.

If our climate continues to warm at today's rate, scientists expect North Sea plankton that respond to temperature cues to bloom even earlier in the coming decades.7 With a growing mismatch in life cycles among various species of plankton, as well as further climate - induced shifts in their abundance and distribution, effects on the North Sea ecosystem — including cod — are projected to be considerable.7, 8

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detailed new research into when global warming will start to have a serious effect on local climates has produced the shock finding that it could happen much sooner than scientists have previously predicted London, 9 October — Catastrophic climate change may begin sooner than anyone expected --- and the first place to feel the heat could be a small but important city in Indonesia.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

During warmer years, the scientists expect the spring pulses to be more frequent.

Each successive year will not necessarily be warmer than the year before, but on the current course of greenhouse gas increases, scientists expect each successive decade to be warmer than the previous decade.

The report claimed that the «pause» or «slowdown» in global warming in the period since 1998 — revealed by UN scientists in 2013 — never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected.

Greenland's ice has been melting faster than many scientists expected just a decade ago, spurred by warming sea and land temperatures, changing weather patterns, and other factors.

While CO2 is indeed a greenhouse gas, increasing concentrations of which may be expected to have (other things being equal) a warming effect, scientists disagree about how large that effect may be (this is particularly affected by ignorance of the effect of clouds).

Both disclosures are consistent with what scientists had expected from climate change, driven by global warming as a consequence of the profligate combustion of fossil fuels that dump ever greater levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Although climate models have been predicting increasing average global temperatures over the next century or so, the past decade has not shown as much warming as most scientists had expected.