Sentences with phrase «widespread warming»

The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing, and very likely that it is not due to known natural causes alone.

On short time scales, as happened in 1998, widespread warm temperatures in the tropical Pacific in El Niño years can pump up the heat.

The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely [< 5 % probability] that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing and very likely that it is not due to known natural causes alone.

Some of the largest and most widespread warm anomalies occurred from eastern Europe to central Asia.

The analysis of data gathered from 1992 through 2013 found widespread warming and declining water quality throughout Buzzards Bay, a shallow estuary near Cape Cod popular in the summertime but tainted by pollution.

But, as scientists including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco said today at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, record - setting melting happened anyway: record snow melt, record sea ice minimum, melting even at the top of the Greenland ice sheet (in what was once called the «dry snow zone»), and widespread warming of permafrost.

Dr Screen suggests this surprising result is due to a «missing» cooling response - meaning that the expected cooling brought about by more easterly winds is offset by the widespread warming effects of Arctic sea - ice loss.

I am surprised at how consistent and widespread the warming is across much of WAIS.

The decreasing trend in global snow cover and widespread melting of glaciers is consistent with a widespread warming.

What we see is widespread warming (with a few exceptions such as regional East Antarctic cooling)

[2] The widespread warming is due to a combination of increased greenhouse gases and positive feedbacks involving sea ice, snow, water vapor, and clouds.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

The rest of Antarctica shows no signs of widespread warming.

There are many other physical signs of widespread warming.

Governments and industry have expected the widespread warming of the Arctic region in the past 20 years to be an economic boon, allowing the exploitation of new gas and oilfields and enabling shipping to travel faster between Europe and Asia.

Nothing like the widespread warming currently being seen.

The widespread warm temperatures in the eastern half of North America were accompanied by an astonishingly strong anomaly centered in the upper midwest.

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.