Sentences with phrase «about climate trends»

Since scientists started thinking about climate trends, concerns have been raised about the continuity of records — whether they are met.

There is a contradiction between the observed continued warming trend and popular perceptions about climate trends.

Secondly, year to year fluctuations are very large and simply reflect the chaotic nature of weather — the change over a single year does not say anything meaningful about climate trends.

By definition, therefore, an isolated event lacks useful information about climate trends.»

One of the odd coincidences that colors our judgment about climate trends is that man began systematically measuring temperatures in the early to mid-nineteenth century just as the world was beginning to exit what was perhaps the coldest period of the last millennia.

«There's a contradiction between the results shown here and popular perceptions about climate trends,» Hansen said.

Of course, I don't think that one example of unusual weather tells us anything about climate trends, I merely throw this in as a counter to those who think that modest warming would be catastrophic.

It will hopefully remind people what we've always known — what the textbooks have always said — that ones must use more than a decade or even 15 years of data to say anything about climate trends.