"You can't overestimate how big the changes in warming we saw in January and February in the Arctic," James Overland, an Arctic and climate change researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told reporters covering the Arctic science summit in Fairbanks.
We have shown that changes in the timing to adulthood of grasshoppers can be explained by differential changes in warming experienced by the different sites, the seasonal timing of warming and year-to-year changes in this seasonal timing.
An analysis of the daily mean temperatures experienced at the surveyed sites during 1999 to 2008, relative to those experienced by the sites during 1955 1964, showed that changes in warming across these two time periods were elevation dependent.
Despite current efforts to limit human introduction of green crab into Puget Sound, climate change resulting in warming sea waters and changing current flow will likely result in larval transport into Puget Sound without further human assistance.
But some of the biggest changes are happening in warming Arctic seas, with the future of northern fisheries hanging in the balance.
Their reliance on these thin seasonal marine floes as a reproductive platform, coupled with concern about how the patterns of Antarctic sea ice could change in a warming world, has led to the species being designated as "near threatened" on the IUCN red list.
And in any event, computer forecasts of climate change suggest that pauses in warming lasting a couple of decades should not surprise us.
I've queried a batch of researchers focused on ice sheets and sea level on these findings, and asked them how their views of sea level changes in a warming world have evolved since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Patients with carpal tunnel syndrome demonstrated a marked (50%) reduction of IENFD, which complemented the findings from QST in which we had detected changes in warm and cold detection thresholds.
For instance, how will hurricanes change in a warming world (the most powerful hurricanes are becoming even more powerful, but the change in frequency is not known) is still an open question.
