Sentences with phrase «with high global warming»

This paper by NRDC, CEEW and IGSD explores the energy efficiency and power sector benefits of air conditioning companies in India to «leapfrog» and phase down unsustainable technologies based on chemicals like HFCs with high Global warming potential and move to a future based on climate - friendly and energy - efficient refrigerants.

The EU Regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases requires the refrigeration and air conditioning sectors to phase out the use of refrigerant gases with a high global warming potential by 2030.

«It is ironic that high concentrations of molecules with high global warming potential (GWP), the worst - case scenario for Earth's climate, is the optimal scenario for detecting an alien civilization, as GWP increases with stronger infrared absorption and longer atmospheric lifetime,» say the authors.

The US Global Warming Action Plan, published last October, says the government will «narrow the scope of uses allowed for HFCs with high global warming potential where better alternatives exist».

Not exact matches

Documents reveal Exxon's early CO2 position, its global warming forecast from the 1980s, and its involvement with the issue at the highest echelons.

He discusses another one of those ridiculous, «why conservatives think the way they do» articles soon to be published, and weighs in with a theory of his own for higher levels of global warming skepticism among the world's Rush Limbaughs.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers by coming across as alarmist.

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.

«Global warming and climate change... increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen in an earlier paper with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.

With these scenarios in mind, the researchers identified what measures can be taken to slow the rate of global warming to avoid the worst consequences, particularly the low - probability high - impact events.

With changing environments due to global warming, conditions are becoming more extreme due to higher energy in the atmosphere.

Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.

Another great carbon footprint calculator is available at EarthLab.com, an online «climate crisis community» that has partnered with Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and other high - profile groups, companies and celebrities to spread the word that individual actions can make a difference in the fight against global warming.

Our study shows that the northeast United States is one of those regions where warming will proceed very rapidly, so that if and when the global target is reached, we will already be experiencing much higher temperatures, with all of the related ecological, hydrological and agricultural consequences.»

Sea ice and snow cover loss create a feedback look that can accelerate global warming; with fewer reflective surfaces on the planet, more sunlight can thereby be absorbed, driving surface temperatures even higher, the scientists explained.

Previous research has shown that alpine flora and fauna are especially vulnerable when it comes to global warming and that the upper and lower boundaries of populations» home ranges have been moving higher up the mountain with every successive generation.

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.

The Nature article comes as climate scientists published what they said today was the «best ever» collection of evidence for global warming, including temperature over land, at sea and in the higher atmosphere, along with records of humidity, sea - level rise, and melting ice.

Gagliano says that as - yet - unpublished work shows that exposing adult reef fish to higher water temperatures and increasingly acid water — both of which are associated with global warming — increases the percentage of offspring born with asymmetrical otoliths.

The ocean becomes less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide with a weakened AMOC and this can lead to higher quantities of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere worsening global warming.

«Geoengineering» experiments proposed to reduce global warming by blocking sunlight with atmosphere - injected particles may cool the world but still leave carbon dioxide levels dangerously high, Stanford scientists say.

Documents reveal Exxon's early CO2 position, its global warming forecast from the 1980s, and its involvement with the issue at the highest echelons.

IPCC [26] projects the following trends, if global warming continue to increase, where only trends assigned very high confidence or high confidence are included: (i) increased malnutrition and consequent disorders, including those related to child growth and development, (ii) increased death, disease and injuries from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, (iii) increased cardio - respiratory morbidity and mortality associated with ground - level ozone.

With high metabolic rates and thick fur, pikas are well adapted to the cold temperatures at high elevations, but these same adaptations make them vulnerable to global warming.

They're packed with protein and, as global warming continues to make high - quality meat less universally accessible, a great eco-friendly food option.

Dear comics, Its not my fault... that you release the same thing in 5 formats, that you micro-manage your talent so much that they can't tell a decent story and get so pissed off by egos that they go to the other boss, that you don't know how to advertise your product, that you are so trapped by short term thinking that you fuck your self over, that you don't know how to keep your books in print, that you drove away people with high prices, oh and I didn't cause global warming either.

Seeking Higher Ground, measuring 70 x 172 in., addresses the potentially catastrophic themes and consequences associated with global warming.

When it is assumed that the CO2 content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2 °C and 3.5 °C, with greater increases at high latitudes.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Most people are ignorant of astronomy or advanced physics, but if you asked them if black holes exist, you'd get a higher proportion agreeing than do with man - made global warming.

A «latitudinal dependence... with strongest correlations... 10 - 70 ° N» may help explain the warm dust bowl years of the 1930s and contributions to higher global temperature 1930s - 1940s.

It follows that we can state, with a high degree of confidence, that extreme anomalies such as those in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010 were a consequence of global warming because their likelihood in the absence of global warming was exceedingly small.»

The science suggests that, by and large, the risk of major negative impacts of climate change increases with higher levels of global warming.

Surprisingly in this magnificent country many high school teachers I interviewed are skeptical about global warming, even when presented with fact laden articles from publications such as Science.

I would expect, with global warming, with the ice melting earlier, this date would move forward for the high latitudes, and should also cause the date of minimun arctic ice extent to move foward also.

However long it took, sea level was 4 - 6m higher during the LIG, with global mean temperature only 1C or so warmer, and CO2 100 ppm or so less than today's.

Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle has weighed in with an excellent post on the letter, noting that none of the complainants are climate scientists; that NASA's position as an agency reflects the brunt of science pointing to a human - heated planet; and that the personal stances of high - profile NASA scientists, Hansen, for instance, are indeed likely to damage the agency's credibility in the eyes of a public divided on global warming.

The physics underlying the lapse rate will insure dew point temperatures at some level in the atmospheric column, although the level will increase with global warming (the resulting high (er) clouds may give a positive feedback).

That they could bask in the sun merely confirms what these scientists have long suspected: that Earth's high latitudes are warming dangerously thanks to man - made climate change, with temperatures rising at twice the global average.

Even now global temperatures are very high again — in the GISS data, with an anomaly of + 0.77 °C November was warmer than the previous record year of 2010 (+ 0.67 °), and it was the warmest November on record since 1880.

Thus, the frequent occurrence of record - high temperatures is consistent with a global warming.

«We also present a set of global vulnerability drivers that are known with high confidence: (1) droughts eventually occur everywhere; (2) warming produces hotter droughts; (3) atmospheric moisture demand increases nonlinearly with temperature during drought; (4) mortality can occur faster in hotter drought, consistent with fundamental physiology; (5) shorter droughts occur more frequently than longer droughts and can become lethal under warming, increasing the frequency of lethal drought nonlinearly; and (6) mortality happens rapidly relative to growth intervals needed for forest recovery.

Nobel Prize - winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote recently that «These calculations [on costs and benefits of slowing global warming] indicate that, even with higher discounting, The Stern Review's estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.»

My house is above the 80M high tide mark, but it is not built for the the weather that we are likly to have with global warming.

«Since the AR4, there is some new limited direct evidence for an anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation, including a formal detection and attribution study and indirect evidence that extreme precipitation would be expected to have increased given the evidence of anthropogenic influence on various aspects of the global hydrological cycle and high confidence that the intensity of extreme precipitation events will increase with warming, at a rate well exceeding that of the mean precipitation..

Under a medium global warming scenario, by the 2040s we predict the number of monthly heat records globally to be more than 12 times as high as in a climate with no long - term warming.

It became so absurd that I actually have had (as have several colleagues) incoming freshmen students with little to no science other than the politicized high school tripe, tell me, their freshman Chemistry professor, that I was an ignorant and poor chemist for I did not support the idea of global warming as did Obama.