Sentences with «global average surface air temperature»
Global average surface air temperatures only reflect the heat present in the atmospheric layer immediately above the land / ocean surface. (skepticalscience.com)
Current global average surface air temperature is warmer than that for all but a small fraction of the past 11,300 years. (science.sciencemag.org)
Unfortunately using global average surface air temperatures as a measure of total warming ignores the fact that most of the heat (more than 93 %) goes into our oceans, which continue to warm without any sign of a pause, as you can see below. (skepticalscience.com)