Sentences with phrase «warmest decade on»

Wait a sec: the «warmest decade on record» is also the snowiest?

The 1990s was the warmest decade on record and 1998 was the warmest year — in Canada and internationally.

2010-01-23 — 2009 Ends Warmest Decade on Record (NASA / EO Image of the Day) 2010-01-21 — Climatologist Gavin Schmidt Discusses the Surface Temperature Record 2010-01-21 — 2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade 2010-01-21 — NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of Warmest Years (Release 10 - 017)

The planet didn't heat up as much as scientists expected it to from 2000 to 2010 (though it was still the warmest decade on record), and a new study finds that chemical compounds spewed during modest eruptions around the globe could be behind the trend.

Furthermore, 2014 could become the warmest single year out of the warmest decade on record.

All of this cold was met with perfect comic timing by the release of a World Meteorological Organization report showing that 2010 will probably be among the three warmest years on record, and 2001 through 2010 the warmest decade on record.

And so, over the decade, alarmist climate scientists tried to fool the public by stonewalling («it's the warmest decade on record,» which doesn't mean the decade was warming), denying the facts («the allegation that annual global mean temperatures stopped increasing during the past decade has no basis in reality»), or outright lying («the world is warming even more quickly than we had thought»).

But, 2005 was the hottest year on record and the warmest decade on record is 1998 through 2008.

Publicly, of course, the Climategate conspirators had been saying that the last ten years were the warmest decade on the instrumental record — true, but not surprising given that there has been 300 years of global warming.

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record.

A month after Sammon sent his memo, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies released data confirming that 2009 was the second warmest year on record and marked the end of the warmest decade on record.

In a year's time, this decade will be the warmest decade on record compared to any decade ending before it, for the third decade in a row.

Janet Larsen, «Warmest Decade on Record Brings Record Temperatures and Weather Extremes,» Eco-Economy Indicator, 13 February 2013.

When someone says GW has not stopped because this is the warmest decade on record they are using that concept versus the concept of GW as what is going on short term.

I would have thought that was a more reasonable view than a large coincidental natural fluctuation that somehow also more rapidly warmed the land, removed Arctic sea ice and raised ocean heat content while giving us the warmest decade on record.

Eight out of the 10 warmest years in India were during the recent past decade (2001 - 2010), making it the warmest decade on record with a decadal mean temperature anomaly of 0.49 °C.

January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record.

This follows 2015, which was the warmest year on record and among the warmest decade on record.

And then there's the thing about using the warmest decade on record as the baseline, but that's not a huge effect compared to the magnitude of the anomalies.

The 1980s was easily the warmest decade on record and exhibited an unprecedented number of extreme climatic events, such as storms and droughts.

The urban stations imply that the 1990s - 2000s were the warmest decades on record, but the rural stations imply that it was just as warm in the 1930s!

But the data also shows the warm years were much warmer than warm years now in this two past decades — supposedly the warmest decades on the last 1000 years.

Not exact matches

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

The decade we've just come through was the warmest on record in human history: it saw record incidence of floods and drought (both of which you'd expect with higher temperatures).

Where CO2 takes centuries to millennia to warm the planet, methane is its cousin on steroids, working quickly over decades before decaying into less virulent gases.

Without knowing it, residents of Nenana, Alaska, have been betting on global warming for decades.

But it's a good sign that China is on track to restrain global warming pollution in the next decade or so, as agreed under a lauded deal with the United States — the world's second largest polluter.

On the other hand there has been no really notably dry, hot, sunny summer in the UK since 2006; summers overall have either been around average or exceptionally wet, and this appears to be linked with strong warming and more frequent high pressure over Greenland in the last decade.»

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

The UK Met Office this week published data showing that the first decade of the 2000s has been the warmest on record.

The findings could serve as a warning sign that engineers need to design stronger structures, especially as glide avalanches may become more frequent: Warmer winters in the future may cause snowpacks to become, on average, wetter and denser than those seen in winters of recent decades.

The spring growing season is of increasing interest to biologists studying the effects of a warming climate, and in coming decades non-native invasive shrubs are positioned to win the gamble on warming temperature, Primack said.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

On average, the 235 lakes in the study warmed at a rate of 0.34 degrees Celsius per decade between 1985 and 2009.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

The temperature on the barrier reef has slowly been rising as a result of global warming, decade by decade.

For decades, American climate scientist James Hansen published important papers on global warming and shared his data at influential congressional hearings — and his policy prescriptions.

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

While CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, or even millennia, methane warms the planet on steroids for a decade or two before decaying to CO2.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

It is very much the mainstream view in the climate research community that you can not explain the warming of the past few decades without anthropogenic and human influences on climate.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Instead, they join other East Coast turtles in warmer waters farther south, where they spend a decade or so maturing before returning to nest on their home beaches in Texas and Mexico.

That record could help climatologists understand decade - and century - long variations in hurricane patterns and begin to unravel the impact of global warming on storm cycles.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades preceding that period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven by carbon dioxide.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its first report in 1990 predicted that temperatures would warm by 0.5 degree Fahrenheit (0.3 degree Celsius) per decade if no efforts were made to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

«For decades, consumerism has been on a collision course with the environment, with consumer appetites draining the planet of natural resources and accelerating global warming.