Sentences with phrase «whether current warming»

Further, it seems to show that global temperatures fluctuate widely and frequently, thus begging the question whether current warming is just a natural variation, an expected increase emerging from the Little Ice Age.

I am thinking that is a little simplistic, but the whole exercise is doomed anyway because we simply do not have data going far enough back to know whether the current warming is exceptional.

we simply do not have data going far enough back to know whether the current warming is exceptional.

If the central question is whether the current warming is statistically significant, then one must know something rather precise about the past to answer this question.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, by the end of this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are expected to complete a head - to - toe examination of how the office works and whether it keeps abreast with current science, and later this year NASA is holding a major workshop that could lead to a redefinition of special regions on Mars, the warm and wet areas that are off - limits for all but the most sterile of spacecraft.

The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound effect on regional weather patterns — from colder winters in Europe to a much warmer Caribbean (and hence warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).

Species have begun to respond to current climate warming, but it remains unclear whether such changes will lead to persistence or decline.

«A major question is whether current global temperatures are warmer than the Medieval Warm Period — and whether that event was global or regional.

Current data are not accurate enough to identify whether warming started earlier in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) or Northern Hemisphere (NH), but a major deglacial feature is the difference between North and South in terms of the magnitude and timing of strong reversals in the warming trend, which are not in phase between the hemispheres and are more pronounced in the NH (Blunier and Brook, 2001).

The bottom line is that regardless of whether or not the D - O cycles are triggered by the Sun, the timing is clearly not right for this cycle to be responsible for the current warming.

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.

It's too soon to say whether the current «pause» in warming is anything more than statistics being clouded by one unusual El Nino event, but we should be thinking now about possible explanations just in case something more interesting is going on.

In fact, if humanity takes no action and this century will bring a temperature rise of 2 ºC, 3 ºC or even more, the current discussions over whether the 14th Century was a few tenths of a degree warmer or the 17th a few tenths cooler than previously thought will look rather academic.

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.

The current debate is about whether warming matters, and whether we can afford to do anything about it.

A major question is whether current global temperatures are warmer than the Medieval Warm Period — and whether that event was global or regional.

Whether or not the current flat global tropospheric temperature trend turns to cooling or back to warming will most likely depend on what the sun does next.

The current debate is whether we can arrest global warming or have we already left it too late.

Surface temperature is an imperfect gauge of whether the earth has been warmed by an imbalance between incoming radiation from the sun, and outgoing radiation, because of the role of ocean currents in the distribution of heat between deeper and surface waters.

The original topic of the conversation was whether Romm's graph made a convincing case for the current warming being unusual and concerning in the context of Holocene history.

However, there is still disagreement over whether a warm period around 1000 years ago (the «Medieval Warm Period») was similar, warmer or cooler than the «Current Warm Period&raqwarm period around 1000 years ago (the «Medieval Warm Period») was similar, warmer or cooler than the «Current Warm Period&raqWarm Period») was similar, warmer or cooler than the «Current Warm Period&raqWarm Period».

Whether it is the unanimous opinion by scientists regarding the 18 - year «global warming» pause; or the last 9 years for the complete lack of major hurricanes; or the inexplicable and surprisingly thick Antarctic sea ice; or the boring global sea level rise that is a tiny fraction of coastal - swamping magnitude; or food crops exploding with record production; or multiple other climate signals - it is now blatantly obvious the current edition of the AGW hypothesis is highly suspect.

His point three is not about whether the current concentrations of CO2 are human - produced (as you say, the isotopic ratios seem conclusive), but how much of the measured warming is due to CO2 concentrations.

The current political cycle is dominated by shrill attacks on anyone who questions whether man - made emissions of carbon dioxide are driving global warming.

Among those march organizers I interacted with in my decision to eventually not participate in the march, the sole test of whether or not you are a good scientist is whether or not you embrace the «current human caused global warming is carrying us to disaster and we must act now to avoid it».

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

Whether its deep warm ocean currents melting floating ice shelfs or the remnants of a far away tsunami, huge icebergs are a natural result.

The Earth has been recovering from the Little Ice Age for a couple of centuries and recovering from a real ice age for thousands of years; it is simply impossible to know whether any observed current warming is a continuation of this natural trend or represents some new man - made phenomenon.

Whether the current sharp downturn in temperatures that CET shows - which seems to be a precursor to global temperatures - is long term or will revert to the very long warming trend is a difficult one to call.

But neither approach evaluates whether the current understanding of the relationship among radiative forcing, internal variability, and global surface temperature can account for the timing and magnitude of the 1999 — 2008 hiatus in warming.

Whether warming worsens storms [still very difficult to determine whether global warming will increase the overall frequency of intense storms (partly because these are difficult to resolve in current - generation climate models), but clear evidence has emerged of the increase in most intense category 4 - 5 hurricanes / cyclones / tyWhether warming worsens storms [still very difficult to determine whether global warming will increase the overall frequency of intense storms (partly because these are difficult to resolve in current - generation climate models), but clear evidence has emerged of the increase in most intense category 4 - 5 hurricanes / cyclones / tywhether global warming will increase the overall frequency of intense storms (partly because these are difficult to resolve in current - generation climate models), but clear evidence has emerged of the increase in most intense category 4 - 5 hurricanes / cyclones / typhoons]

The debate has its important scientific side connected with the dispute whether the current mild warming is man - made or natural.

And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period.

Whether it's the threat of dramatic sea level rise to coastal areas or current climate change refugees from low - lying islands, the effects of climate change and global warming on the world's oceans are both real and imminent.

Whether Global Warming is real or not, it is clear that current Western attempts to reduce CO2 emissions have achieved nothing but 1) Export their industry and jobs to India and China, 2) Increase the CO2 emissions there above what they were in Europe, Australia and North America, so that total emissions increase, and 3) Massively increase domestic electricity prices while enriching Chinese Solar Panel and Wind Turbine manufacturers.

That is pretty much the role now being played by most of the news media in refereeing the current wrestling match over whether global warming is «real,» and whether it has any connection to the constant dumping of 90 million tons of heat - trapping emissions into the Earth's thin shell of atmosphere every 24 hours.

Specifically, it depends on whether the models were put together with the prior assumption that the current warming is an «excursion».

I don't have the final answer about whether 30 %, 10 %, or -10 % of the current warming is due to solar.

«While a longer time range is required to establish whether an individual event is attributable to climate change, the sequence of current events matches IPCC projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming.»

The bottom line is that regardless of whether or not the D - O cycles are triggered by the Sun, the timing is clearly not right for this cycle to be responsible for the current warming.