Sentences with phrase «years warmed rapidly»

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2016 has been a year marked by fear, insecurity and a rapidly warming planet.

About 15,000 years ago, as rising seas submerged the land bridge and a warming trend began to melt the glaciers covering North America, people swept rapidly into both North and South America.

Last year, Hurricane Matthew rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to hurricane status as it moved over the Caribbean Sea in the location where a warm ocean eddy exists, and in close proximity to where these measurements were taken for this study two years prior.

An argument over the «nitty - gritty» The Durack paper suggests that the upper oceans have been warming much more rapidly over the past 35 years than previously thought.

That figure will rapidly increase each year as warmer temperatures thin permafrost, Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the economic impact study, wrote in an e-mail.

Dozens of fires are raging across California, Oregon and Washington, many triggered by lightening and spreading rapidly through parched forest and vegetation as the West Coast endures years of drought and warmer - than - average winters.

This gradual shift in the Sahara's overall climate contradicts a common theory that the region dried rapidly over a few hundred years, and provides clues about a potential re-greening triggered by global warming, Kröpelin says.

The Antarctic Peninsula has been warming rapidly for at least a half - century, and continental West Antarctica has been getting steadily hotter for 30 years or more.

You have also brushed over the fact that the warming rate increases rapidly in the mid and upper scenarios so using the centenial trend applied to the next 20 years is inappopriate.

Assuming you believe that the Arctic's temperature rise since the mid-1990s has been caused by CO2, how do you explain the ~ 40 years of cooling that preceded the warming — since CO2 was rapidly rising during both the cooling and warming periods?

In contrast, warming reaches 1.5 °C and stays above 1 °C until after 2400 if emissions continue to increase until 2030, even though fossil fuel emissions are phased out rapidly (5 % / year) after 2030 and 100 GtC reforestation occurs during 2030 — 2080.

There was no equivalent to either Old Joy or Little Miss Sunshine this time around, and the once - hot (or at least warm) but now rapidly cooling Premieres section was even more pathetic than last year.

«We know that many billions are required over the next few years to fill the gap in climate finance, but the money pledged today is vital to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet cope with the immediate impacts of our rapidly warming world,» Ishii continued.

With access to some of the most amazing beaches in the country, consistently warm temperatures and over 300 days of sunshine per year, this area is rapidly becoming the most sought after location in Costa Rica.

The planet may have been warmer recently, but the rate of increase, particularly over the last 10 - 20 years) has occurred so rapidly over such a short time period — this is what is not normal.

You have also brushed over the fact that the warming rate increases rapidly in the mid and upper scenarios so using the centenial trend applied to the next 20 years is inappopriate.

[Summary: Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year.

My answer — On the basis of billions of years of historical global warming periods, some of which happened rapidly and without any human influence whatsoever — and whose specific causes remain a mystery.

«It's apparent that we're already warming so rapidly that more than one year in three should be a new record, on average.

I sincerely hope that you are not serious in maintaining the following: The peak warming is linearly proportional to the cumulative carbon emitted It doesn't matter much how rapidly the carbon is emitted The warming you get when you stop emitting carbon is what you are stuck with for the next thousand years The climate recovers only slightly over the next ten thousand years At the mid-range of IPCC climate sensitivity, a trillion tonnes cumulative carbon gives you about 2C global mean warming above the pre-industrial temperature.

But the current paper shows that the differences in midcentury warming rates occurred much more rapidly than previously thought (over a few years, not a few decades).

The arctic will be ice free in summer within 5 - 6 years, progressing rapidly to all the remaining 9 months of the year as the arctic ocean continues to warm.

A similar occurrence of decreasing global temperatures with rapidly increasing CO2 emissions took place during the 33 years from 1942 to 1975 (the 70's global cooling scare) so the stated correlation of increased CO2 emissions with global warming never actually existed.

With fourteen of the fifteen warmest years on record having occurred since the year 2000; with oceans both warming and acidifying; and with unequivocal scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels is the principal cause — what can we do to rapidly reduce emissions?

Last year, Professor Wadhams claimed that assassins may have murdered three British scientists who were seeking to reveal how rapidly global warming was melting Arctic ice.

Met Office: Global mean surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s, but there has been little further warming over the most recent 10 to 15 years to 2013.

The last 70 out of 300 years of Modern Global Warming are characterized by human - caused, extremely unusual, rapidly increasing CO2 levels.

Around 600 years ago, the peninsula started to warm once more - slowly at first, but then, from around 1920, much more rapidly.

The earth has been warming for at least 15000 years and will, based on past events, get much warmer before rapidly cooling down again.

Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.

98 was the» warmest» year, for two reasons: # 1: it was the year after the Kyoto Conference — they were too ambitious and» massaged» the data to appear that the heat was rapidly increasing.

«The record - warm Arctic so far this year, which is probably a preview of a two - degrees - warmer globe, will spawn all sorts of surprises that we can not foresee,» according to Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University whose work focuses on the implications of rapidly diminishing Arctic sea ice.

At the end of the Maunder Minimum, the Earth's atmosphere warmed more rapidly in response to the naturally - occurring recovery of solar activity from 1695 - 1735 than it has warmed in any subsequent 40 - year period.

A record warm year in 2010 is not a certainty, especially if the current El Niño was to unexpectedly decline rapidly near the start of 2010, or if there was a large volcanic eruption.

The belief is that warm ocean currents are rapidly melting this glacier, because it lifted off this smaller ridge in the 1970s and now moves 4x faster than Thwaites at 4 km per year.

While the subject was regarded as taboo only five years ago, the normalisation of geoengineering as a legitimate response to global warming is now proceeding rapidly.

«Since I fought fire in Alaska over 30 years ago, the planet has rapidly warmed and wildfire conditions have noticeably deteriorated,» commented Nicky Sundt, a former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper who now works on climate policy at the World Wildlife Fund, by email.

The various kinds of evidence examined by the panel suggest that the troposphere actually may have warmed much less rapidly than the surface from 1979 into the late 1990s, due both to natural causes (e.g., the sequence of volcanic eruptions that occurred within this particular 20 - year period) and human activities (e.g., the cooling of the upper part of the troposphere resulting from ozone depletion in the stratosphere).

While this is categorically false (the last decade was the warmest on record and 2005 and 2010 are generally considered tied for the warmest year), scientists do admit that warming hasn't occurred over land as rapidly as predicted in the last ten years, especially given continually rising greenhouse gas emissions.

It was warmer and climate changed more rapidly than in recent years during the Medieval Warm Period, as well as during half a dozen other warm periWarm Period, as well as during half a dozen other warm periwarm periods.

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.

Such globally averaged time series are not necessarily representative of local conditions: for example, Canada and Siberia have warmed much more rapidly during the past 20 years than indicated in Figure 2.1, while parts of the high latitude North Atlantic and North Pacific regions have cooled slightly.

Warmer air and ocean temperatures have caused the glacier to detach from a stabilizing sill and retreat rapidly along a downward - sloping, marine - based bed... After 8 years of decay of its ice shelf, Zachariæ Isstrøm, a major glacier of northeast Greenland that holds a 0.5 - meter sea - level rise equivalent, entered a phase of accelerated retreat in fall 2012.

In contrast, warming reaches 1.5 °C and stays above 1 °C until after 2400 if emissions continue to increase until 2030, even though fossil fuel emissions are phased out rapidly (5 % / year) after 2030 and 100 GtC reforestation occurs during 2030 — 2080.

That's because the Puget Lobe was rapidly advancing only 14,000 years ago, triggered by the great episode of rapid global warming that preceded the Younger Dryas.

Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, with state - wide average annual air temperature increasing by 3 °F and average winter temperature by 6 °F, with substantial year - to - year and regional variability.1 Most of the warming occurred around 1976 during a shift in a long - lived climate pattern (the Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO]-RRB- from a cooler pattern to a warmer one.

Unfortunately if we hang around talking about a 15 - year slowdown for too long, the chance to limit warming to less than the 2C threshold will rapidly disappear.

Monday's announcement figures to be the policy centerpiece of the rest of Obama's presidency, and a challenge to the rapidly growing economies China and India (the world's No. 1 and No. 3 carbon emitters, respectively) on global warming pollution, favorably positioning the United States for next year's climate talks in Paris.

They didn't show some sort of moderate warming followed by huge pulses of energy emerging from the oceans in 50 or 100 or a 1000 years to rapidly warm the planet to reach their alleged warming figures.

If today's worst - case global warming scenarios of catastrophic melting of glaciers and ice sheets come to pass, sea levels could rise rapidly, wreaking all sorts of geological havoc «comparable with the most rapid increases in sea level that we've seen in the last 15,000 years,» McGuire said.