Sentences with phrase «centigrade rise»

He believed with one centigrade rise in temperature, in case of wheat, might result in loss of 1.2 million tons of annual production.

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They suggested that the 1 - degree Centigrade temperature rise that we've already created could be enough to generate a 10 - meter sea level rise within a century.

Eventually, the hot, mineral - rich fluid rises again and gushes out of openings in the seafloor — hydrothermal vents — at temperatures up to about 400 degrees Centigrade.

This is an illness associated with extreme heat when a dog's body temperature rises beyond 40 degrees centigrade.

After 50 km inland the rain stops, the sky is blue and the temperature rises to 35 degrees Centigrade.

In the Stern review, a global average rise in temperatures above 3 degrees centigrade was labeled «The Economics of Genocide.»

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

Walt, go read lucia's blog, Blackboard, and see that it will only take the first ten years of this century to falsify the IPCC's idea that CO2 causes a 2 degree Centigrade per century rise of temperature.

So if we continue on our present course, climate change will probably take on a life of its own, spiral out of control and according to a recent paper, by 2300 we could see a temperature rise of 12 degrees centigrade.

Any dependence, though is going to be pretty much negligible for small temperature rises — remember its Kelvin that is the appropriate scale, not Centigrade.

Last month, in an interview with James Kanter of The Times and International Herald Tribune, the new head of the energy agency, Maria van der Hoeven, discussed one point made in the report today — that concerns raised by the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant could continue to dampen expansion of nuclear power and add to the challenge of avoiding a big accumulation of carbon dioxide, saying: «Such a reduction would certainly make it more difficult for the world to meet the goal of stabilizing the rise in temperature to 2 degrees Centigrade.»

You say «Temperatures are expected to rise by 3 degree Centigrade because of actions we have already taken.»

When we track it back to your source, we find: «The world's temperature is on course to rise by more than three degrees Centigrade despite efforts to combat global warming, Britain's chief scientist has warned.»

Your claim: «Temperatures are expected to rise by 3 degree Centigrade because of actions we have already taken.»

Question: Temperatures are expected to rise by 3 degree Centigrade because of actions we have already taken.

There was widespread acknowledgement that, as things currently stand, we are not on track for limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels.

He found that «the ultimate impact on projected global temperature rise would be a reduction or a «savings» of approximately 0.08 degrees Centigrade by the year 2050 and 0.17 degrees Centigrade by the year 2100»; results that would be negligible.

Night - time temperatures are rising too, with Ahmedabad and Delhi recently reporting 39 and 36 degrees centigrade.

The carbon reductions attributable to RGGI are 15.4 million tons and simply pro-rating the published projection of global temperature rise with the RGGI emissions yields 0.00023 degrees Centigrade.

Here is a recent finding that should give people pause when they might be contemplating any delays in fundamental change: New finding shows climate change can happen in a geological instant Oct 07, 2013 by Ken Branson, at http://phys.org/news/2013-10-climate-geological-instant.html 13 years for global temperatures rising by 5 degrees centigrade 55 million years ago when CO2 levels doubled?

We do not assume any position with respect to global warming except to note in our report that the instrumented record of global average temperature has risen since 1850 according to the MBH99 chart by about 1.2 degrees Centigrade, and in the NAS panel report chaired by Dr. North, about six - tenths of a degree Centigrade in several places in that report.

A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures — the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding — is now «very unlikely» to be avoided, the world's leading climate scientists said yesterday.

Under the scale of risk used by IPCC, the words «very unlikely» mean there is just a one to 10 per cent chance of limiting the global temperature rise to two degrees centigrade or less.

For more than a decade, EU countries led by Britain have set a rise of two degrees centigrade or less in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels as the benchmark after which the effects of climate become devastating, with crop failures, water shortages, sea - level rises, species extinctions and increased disease.

The acceptable number continuing to rise in order to keep business and pollution as usual churning as the «acceptable «target increases from 1.5 degrees Centigrade to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 degrees Centigrade.

The strongest evidence in support of climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps, Langcake acknowledges, noting the temperature in Antarctica rose by 2.5 degrees centigrade between 1945 and 1995 and a Norwegian study supporting the idea of a rapidly accelerating melt at both poles, but claims this theory may not be borne out over a longer period.

By the end of the century we could see Earth's mean temperature rise by 6 degrees centigrade.

Even Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, one of the leading sirens of the alarmist community, had to concede late last month that, when it recalculated global temperatures for the past decade using the latest data and techniques, the average over the past 10 years had risen just 0.07 degrees centigrade, less than half the 0.2 degrees they and the UN had previously claimed.

JCH — if a «little bit» of energy isn't returned to space on a given day, how many degrees Centigrade does the first 500 feet of the worlds oceans rise?

The Economist article cites a new World Bank jeremiad that postulates calamitous planetary results from a projected 4 - 6 degree Centigrade global temperature rise.

The promise will begin to take concrete form as soon as all 196 UN members submit their «intended nationally determined commitments» (INDCs), which will determine whether the world can stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Centigrade in order to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.