Sentences with phrase «about degree of warming»

There is uncertainty about degree of warming, about the role of ocean currents as a «sink hole» for CO2 resorption from the atmosphere.

The 400 scientists they characterize as disputing man - made climate change include mostly folks no one has ever heard of, and the quotes they cherry pick aren't all expressing doubt about whether climate change is real and a problem — many are simply expressing differing opinions about the degree of warming and the consequences of that warming.

There is nothing to worry about a degree of warming.

Not exact matches

The Gulf of Mexico right now is about two degrees warmer than ever in history.

With the simple timer, you can cut power off to your slow cooker after say 2 hours of warming, and your food will still probably be at about 140 degrees when you are ready to eat.

To rewarm, simple place in a toaster, 1/2 waffle at a time to toast (I needed two rounds of normal «bread» toasting, about 5 minutes)-- or toast in a 350 degree oven until browned and warm through.

Cook medallions, covered, about two to three minutes per side or to an internal temperature of 145 degrees F. Remove medallions from grill, tent with foil, and keep warm in a low oven until service.

1/2 cup warm water (about 100 - 110 degrees) 2 tablespoons - maple syrup 1 package Red Star Quick Rise or Active Dry yeast 4 eggs - beaten (about 230g out of the shell) 1 1/3 cup (180g) Otto's Cassava Flour 1 1/3 cup (180g) Arrowroot flour 1 tsp salt (we use Redmond Real Salt) 4 tbsp butter

Carefully put the fish into the hot oil and cook about five minutes, turning occasionally, until the fish reaches an internal temperature of 140 degrees F. Transfer the cooked fillets to a warm oven and hold while cooking the remaining fish.

When a good smoke develops, place the chops on the cooking grate, lower the cover and smoke - cook the chops about 1 to 1 1/2 hours or to an internal temperature of 155 degrees F. Remove chops from smoker, tent with aluminum foil and keep warm until service.

Depending on the type of chocolate you use (particularly with dairy free chocolate), you may need to add a little bit of dairy free margarine (or butter) to the melted chips — you want the chocolate to flow easily when warmed to about 89 degrees, but still able to set when at room temperature.

The afternoon was perfect, clear and cloudless and, at about 25 [degrees], plenty warm for a few hours of winter fun.

Fill the tub with about 3 inches of water that feels warm but not hot to the inside of your wrist — about 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or a few degrees warmer.

After it heats up, about 90 percent of that water is discharged back into the Sound at about 20 degrees warmer than when it was taken in, said Ken Holt, a spokesman for Millstone.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

W [hat] we are finding though is that if we get to warming that is more than; right now, we warmed about, maybe six - tenths of a degree centigrade, about [one] degree Fahrenheit warmer than we would have been.

But they've been especially interested in the most recent period of abrupt global warming, the Bølling - Allerød, which occurred about 14,500 years ago when average temperatures in Greenland rose about 15 degrees Celsius in about 3,000 years.

Unusually warm surface water in the Gulf of Mexico — about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal — may be a factor, he said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

The Warming Meadow's radiators raise average soil temperatures by about three degrees Fahrenheit, decrease growing season soil moisture by up to twenty percent and advance the spring snowmelt date by up to a month in order to simulate predicted effects of climate change.

(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

He calculated that the Beaver Pond larch thrived at a yearly average of minus 5.5 C (22 F), about 14 degrees warmer than today's average.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

It also eliminates much of the uncertainty surrounding potentially ill effects; whereas various mathematical models may disagree about when and at what concentrations Arctic Ocean sea ice disappears, they all agree that at roughly 3 degrees C of warming, the far north will be ice - free.

As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.

«Hurricanes almost always form over ocean water warmer than about 80 degrees F. in a belt of generally east - to - west flow called the trade winds.

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

At that point it is about 2 degrees warmer than the water at the seafloor and three - tenths of a degree warmer than the water surrounding the plume.

The coldest night of the winter in this region has warmed by about 7 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 50 years, creating favorable conditions for the southern pine beetle to increase its range.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

The implication: because average temperatures may warm by at least one degree C by 2030, «climate change could increase the incidences of African civil war by 55 percent by 2030, and this could result in about 390,000 additional battle deaths if future wars are as deadly as recent wars.»

Aerosols are already known to reduce global warming: The vast clouds of sulfates thrown up in the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, for example, reduced average global temperatures by about half a degree Celsius.

A concerted effort to do ecosystem restoration around the world could pull about half a degree of warming out of the system before it actually happens.

«We came to take a half a degree Celsius out of future warming, and we won about 90 percent of our climate prize,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, who has worked toward the agreement for more than a decade.

A system of pumps continually flushed new seawater — warmed to about 70 degrees — into the cylinders.

«The long - term baseline temperature is about three tens of a degree (C) warmer than it was when the big El Niño of 1997 - 1998 began, and that event set the one - month record with an average global temperature that was 0.66 C (almost 1.2 degrees F) warmer than normal in April 1998.»

January through August of 1998 are all in the 14 warmest months in the satellite record, and that El Niño started when global temperatures were somewhat chilled; the global average temperature in May 1997 was 0.14 C (about 0.25 degrees F) cooler than the long - term seasonal norm for May.

Despite the six months of darkness each year, the terrestrial Arctic climate included warm humid summers and mild winters with temperatures ranging from just above freezing to about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

Scientists at the University of Leicester placed infected sticklebacks into a tank of water at 68 degrees Fahrenheit — about 9 degrees warmer than a typical summer's day in Britain — and found the tapeworms to grow four times faster than normal.

«We found that where ocean temperatures warmed beyond a certain point as we neared the equator, at about 29 degrees, the pace of larval development slowed,» says study lead author, Dr Ian McLeod.

But now it appears the energy balance has become slightly lopsided due to a buildup of greenhouse gases, warming our planet overall by about 0.8 degrees in the past 50 years.

The current goals would drop that to about 3.5 °C of warming, one degree lower.

As I understand it (from the IPCC report and from Ramanathan en Feng, Sept 23 2008 in PNAS) stopping all emissions suddenly would cause about 1.6 degree Celsius of extra warming, because short - lived pollution would quickly be removed from the atmosphere.

I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

Abstract: Analyses of underground temperature measurements from 358 boreholes in eastern North America, central Europe, southern Africa, and Australia indicate that, in the 20th century, the average surface temperature of Earth has increased by about 0.5 degrees C and that the 20th century has been the warmest of the past five centuries.

«Ocean temperatures rose substantially during that warming episode — as much as 7 to 9 degrees Celsius (about 12 to 16 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas of the North Atlantic.

After the start of the Deccan eruptions and the resulting rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, local temperatures warmed about 7.8 degrees C (14 degrees F).

«If we assume an optimistic scenario for greenhouse gas emissions — the RCP 2.6 scenario, [see Fact Box] which would result in a warming of about two degrees Celsius — then we can expect an increase in sea level similar to what we see in this video,» says climate modeller Martin Stendel from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen.