Sentences with phrase «whether continued warm»

From a European perspective it's not really sure whether continued warm water transport to the north would actually count as good news.

Since Callendar (1938), great progress has been made in understanding the past changes in Earth's climate, and whether continued warming is beneficial or not.

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The loss may be accelerating: since 2006, warm summers have caused levels to rise by 0.75 millimetres per year, though van den Broeke says we can't be sure whether this trend will continue (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1178176).

Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short: warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the birds to feast on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.

Forests are also vulnerable to changes in climate, leading scientists to explore whether they can continue their sequestering magic in a warming world.

Thus as a practical matter, it doesn't really matter whether the inertia is climatic or societal or technological or economic because the globe will continue to warm under all realistic scenarios (what we do have a possible control over is the magnitude of that warming).

William M. Gray wrote... I judge our present global ocean circulation to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

Unlike some other scientists, Mulvaney declined to comment on whether the warming will continue.

Whether by warming your heart or making you laugh, you can at least find a reason to... Continue reading →

We don't know whether or not global warming is actually dangerous, but we should lower emissions rather than continue our current habits in hopes that things will turn out alright.

No trend continues forever, including warming, whether anthropogenic or not.

They will continue to rise regardless of whether we attempt to do anything about recent warming.

Yet the world is warming, whether or not another Katrina happens this season is not as solid as current well documented warming trends, which continue to defy «natural variabilty» temperature fluctuations.

Folks can continue arguing about whether global warming is a significant factor intensifying Western wildfires or can dig in to end irrational incentives fostering development in fire - prone «red zones.»

It seems somewhat disingenuous for the book's authors to continue assert that there is an ongoing debate regarding whether global warming is caused by humans, and then use pre-1998 references to make this case.

Unfortunately, various commentators continue to try and blame the warming signal on natural and cyclic variability, whether it's solar cycles, the AMO, or El Nino.

by Chris White Daily Caller The ExxonMobil probes are meant to determine whether the company decided to continue pulling oil out of the ground despite acknowledging global warming is a growing issue, the leader of the investigation told reporters Friday.

The mantra goes that when atmospheric CO2 peaks at whatever value, whether it's 500ppm or 1000ppm warming will continue long after that.

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global - warming orthodoxy The 20 - year - long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate... Continue reading →

At the moment, the oceans are absorbing about a third of the carbon dioxide we are emitting, but scientists are unclear whether it will continue to do so in the future, as the oceans become warmer and more acidic.

To those of us who have dared to question on scientific and economic grounds the official story on global warming, it is a continuing surprise that there is so little concern about whether or not that story is objectively true... The herd and the hive do not care.

Inherent in the question is that it's a test of whether a pre-1997 warming trend has continued past 1997.

When we ask whether 1970 - 1997 warming has continued past 1997 we should be asking whether the 1970 - 1997 trend has continued, not whether temperature has increased since 1997.

Surely it's the longterm trend that defines whether warming continues, not the specific path temperature took.»

I have no idea as to whether the globe will continue to warm or cool or bump around at the current temperatures tonyb

Whether CO2 levels are high or low, as long as we are in an interglacial period it seems entirely reasonable that the oceans will continue to warm.

The world may have warmed, but we still don't know if, and by how much it will continue to warm, and whether or not any future warming will be a net beneficial or catastrophic.

It is unclear whether this warm state continues, with the persistance of the long La Niña from late 1998 until early 2001.

An assessment of whether or not there was a meaningful slowdown or «hiatus» in global warming, was recently discussed by Tamino... Continue reading →

In the mean time, I shall continue to visit your site as I am trying to get my mind «up to speed» on the details of «global warming» predictions — and do some bush league predictions of my own (as I enjoy «computer modeling» real systems, whether I am good at it or not).

Personally, I do not know whether the earth is going to continue to warm, or that having reached a peak in 1998, we are at the start of a cooling cycle that will last several decades or more.

An example of an explicit endorsement without quantification would be «while anthropogenic forcings continue to rise, combined natural forcings are negative over recent times, and internal variability is small» from which it is readilly deduced that anthropogenic factors are the primary cause of recent warming, without being able to quantify whether they contribute 55 % or 110 %, or something in between.

While I am pretty sure IPCC won't repeat the silly mistake of projecting global warming of 0.2 C per decade for the next two decades (as it did in AR4), it will be interesting to see whether or not IPCC modifies its AR5 report to include the possibility of continued global cooling over the next two or three decades despite unabated human GHG emissions and concentrations expected to reach new record levels.

The letters were submitted to the Department of the Interior as the agency faces a court - imposed deadline next week on whether polar bears, which are acutely imperiled by global warming, should continue to be classified merely as «threatened» or given maximum protection as «endangered.»

It is not yet clear whether this linearity will continue: but, if it does, all of the IPCC's predictions (or, if you prefer, «projections») of future global warming will require substantial downward adjustment on this ground alone.

But of course, these so - called «skeptics» will continue to blather on endlessly about: 1) whether the oceans are warming or 2) that the effects will be «harmless».

Whether from ignorance or mendacity, climate activists continue to ignore climate scientists» work about the pause in warming since roughly 1998.

An important question is whether the lack of continued global warming in recent years will be temporary, or is this further evidence that the climate system is more complex than concluded in such assessments as provided by the IPCC.

The Washington Post ran an article on September 17 on the controversy over whether Pat Michaels, long - time voice of the global warming denial machine, was entitled to continue to identify himself as the Virginia State Climatologist.