Sentences with phrase «worldwide average temperature change»

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Please note also that the change in global average temperature from one year to the next is as high as half a degree worldwide, and is much more in any given location, often several degrees and occasionally much more.

By the early 1980s, a fairly broad consensus had emerged in the climate change research community that greenhouse gas emissions could, by 2050, result in a rise in global average temperature by 1.5 ° to 4.5 °C (about 2.7 ° to 8.0 °F) and a complex pattern of worldwide climate changes.

They worked out how these proportions would change if the average planetary temperatures reach 2 °C above the «normal» of the pre-industrial world, and they found that human - induced global warming could already be responsible for 18 % of extremes of rain or snow, and 75 % of heatwaves worldwide.