Sentences with phrase «warming seas off»

An iceberg floating in warming seas off the coast of Antarctica.

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First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

Warm sea surface temperature anomalies persist off to W and SW of San Diego, but are smaller than in previous weeks over the past month.

The sea stays at 45 °, and he tends to linger off rivermouths, like a man hesitating to step into a cold bath, until they warm and flood with rain.

If they continue to die off, as they did in 1999 and 2003 when temperatures were 3 to 4 °C warmer than average and summer layers lasted longer than usual, fish and other sea life that depend on them will decline too, the team say.

Spawned by the Sea Atlantic hurricanes often develop over equatorial waters off the African coast, where colliding winds generate thunderstorms fueled by warm, humid air.

Now, warming seawater intruding underneath has loosened the glaciers» grip on bedrock, speeding their flow toward the sea and causing increasing amounts of ice to break off into the ocean.

Researchers have already blamed die - offs of migratory birds and sea lions on The Blob; concerns are now that salmon harvests this summer will be depressed as a result of the warm water.

Volcanic rocks deep beneath the sea off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington State might prove one of the best places to store the carbon dioxide emissions that are causing global warming, a new study finds.

This is one way that warming oceans could be helping to shift Greenland's ice off the land and out to sea.

The results, presented here at the AAAS annual meeting on 14 February, showed that when the sea surface warmed off the coast of Peru in 1997 - 98, during El Niño, there was a marked increase in rates of cholera infection in Lima and nearby cities.

Sea surface temperatures were warmer this past summer also; I forget how many standard deviations the temperature was off the trend, but it was definitely anomalous.

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

How does a more acid ocean interact with things like warmer seas, or human encroachment such as overfishing or land - based run - off?

(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.

A very recent study by Saba et al. (2015) specifically analyzed sea surface temperatures off the US east coast in observations and a suite of global warming runs with climate models.

«You can totally turn off ocean circulation, have Arctic sea ice advance all the way across the North Atlantic, and you still will have a warmer climate during the Younger Dryas than the Oldest Dryas because of the carbon dioxide,» Carlson says.

Capping off a season of sustained, mind - boggling warm weather and stunted sea ice growth, the annual Arctic sea ice maximum hit its lowest level ever recorded.

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The warm (ish) waters off of the SoCal coastline are a treasure trove of sea life - and you don't have to have your diving license to find them!

Imagine teeing off down a lush green fairway lined with palm trees with the golden sands and warm waters of the Coral Sea in sight.

Twice a year the volunteers monitoring the turtle conservation project release the hatchlings that are sea - ready into the, warm waters off the eastern coast of the island.

Imagine drifting off to sleep as the warm sea breezes caress you or waking to the warmth of another glorious day.

Between its warm tropical waters, fantastic sea walls covered in corals, drop - offs boasting of a variety of animals, and a plethora of large pelagics and sharks, it is no wonder people flock here every year to enjoy some of the best diving in the world.

Unprecedented warm waters off the Pacific coast over the past two years have led fish that marine mammals feed on to move to colder waters — making it difficult for seals and sea lions to nourish themselves, let alone feed their pups.

Desolation Sound ticks off most of the check boxes of a dream paddling destination: sheltered seas, rugged islands, abundant wildlife, mountain vistas, warm water... We add a twist to this classic kayaking trip and take a less - travelled route through the dramatic Discovery Islands to make a real expedition out of it.

Soaring summer temperatures scorch the summer sands and invite visitors to cool off in the clear, warm waters of the Red Sea.

The unit has a lovely braai area with views of the sea, as well as an outdoor shower with warm water to wash off the salt and sand after a long day at the beach.

The sea is inviting for human visitors as well, as the waters off the beach are generally calm and warm.

The abundant waters off the coast of Cabo San Lucas — located at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, where the calm and warm waters of the Sea of Cortez mixes with the unfathomable cool currents of the Pacific Ocean — offer the ideal conditions for plenty of sport - fish species, including (among others) Rooster Fish, Mahi Mahi (known locally as Dorado), varieties of Tuna, Sharks, Jacks, Groupers, and Billfish such as Sailfish, Swordfish, Black Marlin, Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin.

Dr. Rignot recently proposed that unabated warming could result in three feet of global sea rise just from water flowing off Greenland, three feet from Antarctica and 18 inches as the remaining alpine glaciers shrivel away.

Off the coast of Washington we also see shifts in fish species for probably different reasons than the Bering Sea, i.e., warm waters moving north, rather than changes in primary production (but both likely related to anthropogenic climate change).

Declines in Arctic sea - ice and warming in high altitude regions can literally push habitable zones for some living things off the face of the planet.

[Response: Unfortunately, you seem to have conveniently forgotten that Keigwin (and Pickart) published a paper in Science just a few years later in 1999 pointing that the appparent cooling (actually, the oxygen isotopic signal in question isn't entirely temperature, it is salinity as well, so the quantative 1 deg cooling estimate you cite is not actually reliable) in the Sargasso Sea is diametrically opposed by a substantial warming at the same time in the Laurentian Fan region of the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland.

Maybe it's because of global warming, and the Antarctic sea ice is increasing because chunks of the ice shelf are breaking off and becoming sea ice.

In an attempt to test the possibility of mitigating the effects of global warming, scientists from India, Germany, Italy and Chile plan on «sinking» carbon emissions into the Scotia Sea, off the Antarctic Peninsula in the South Atlantic, during

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

Burning all fossil fuels, if the CO2 is released into the air, would destroy creation, the planet with its animal and plant life as it has existed for the past several thousand years, the time of civilization, the Holocene, the period of relative climate stability, warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Eurasia, but cool enough to maintain Antarctic and Greenland ice, and thus a stable sea level.

Global warming - induced sea level rise contributed to the 20 - foot storm surges that caught victims off guard, much as it contributed to Sandy's record 13 - foot coastal surge that flooded substantial sections of New York and New Jersey.

The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the trend is for more warming.

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

RTM links to this quote «In 1989 the Miami Herald quoted a U.N. environment official who warned of a «10 - year window of opportunity to solve» global warming, because «entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.»»

It is the reversal of the global warming trend that would appear to be being called for within the 10 - year window, the «prediction'that «entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels» (and note the «could» in there) isn't within that timespan.

In 1989 the Miami Herald quoted a U.N. environment official who warned of a «10 - year window of opportunity to solve» global warming, because «entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.»

We now have the first results for our Climatological simulations, investigating the influence of removing the «blob» of warm sea surface temperatures off the western US coast.

What that means is that this storm will be feeding off these very warm seas, producing very large amounts of snow as spiraling winds of the storm squeeze that moisture out of the air, cool, it, and deposit it as snow inland.»

An important reason for all of the snowfall is the abnormally warm sea surface temperatures off southern New England's coast.

«Sea surface temperatures off the coast of New England right now are at record levels, 11.5 C (21F) warmer than normal in some locations,» says Penn State climate researcher Michael Mann.

The intense prehistoric hurricanes were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean during the ancient period investigated than have been the norm off the U.S. East Coast over the last few hundred years, according to the study.