The month saw dry conditions, as indicated by below average precipitation, soil moisture, and relative humidity and
above average temperature compared to 1981 - 2010 in most of eastern and southeastern Europe, including the regions around the Black Sea.
Not exact matches
All told, the consortium estimates that current policies around the globe translate into a 3.6 °C increase in
average temperatures by 2100,
compared with preindustrial levels, well
above the 2 °C threshold often noted by scientists, or the 1.5 °C goal set out in Paris.
My questions, the answers to which I may have missed in this string, are how can one relate the forcing at 2XCO2 to an expected atmospheric
temperature rise in a way that a citizen can understand; and is the forcing as stated as a degree C to be
compared with the forcing at 280 ppm (pre industrial) NOT with today's measured
temperature or rise
above average?
In fact, significant emission reductions of 60 % -80 %
compared to 1990 will be necessary by 2050 to reach the strategic objective of limiting the global
average temperature increase to not more than 2 °C
above pre-industrial levels.
The Arctic has been warming at more than twice the rate of the globe as a whole, with
average temperatures today 5.4 °F (3 °C)
above what they were at the beginning of the 20th century,
compared to an estimated global
average of 1.8 °F (1 °C) over the same time.
The chart
above compares actual
temperatures from the earth's bulk atmosphere as measured by satellites and weather balloons, to
average theoretical
temperatures from 102 model runs.
Air
temperature 2 meters
above the surface for the Arctic north of 80 degrees latitude for 2017 (pink),
compared to 2016 (teal), and the long - term
average (red).
Huge sections of the Arctic were among the areas that saw
temperatures well
above average, according to the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, which
compares daily
temperature anomalies to a baseline of data from between 1979 and 2000.
November also brought the string of consecutive
above -
average months on the planet to 345, with it being the 37th straight November with
above -
average temperatures compared to the 20th century
average.