It did not: the entire planet is
accumulating heat due to an energy imbalance.
The entire planet is
accumulating heat due to an energy imbalance.
More than 90 percent of
the accumulated heat due to climate change is ending up in the oceans and its effects are being acutely felt.
Not exact matches
While 2016 has gotten a boost from an exceptionally strong El Niño, the record temps are mostly the result of the excess
heat that has built up in Earth's atmosphere
due to
accumulating greenhouse gases.
This is your hardest question to answer, as the question seems to presuppose their are other sources of
heat that are warming up the earth other than global warming
due to CO2, methane, nitrous oxide (from agriculture and fertilisers) and CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons, from refrigerants etc)
accumulating in the atmosphere from mankind's various activities.
But during times of recession aerosols fall out, greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere and
heat is
accumulated due to net positive forcing.
Storms and extreme rainfall events have always happened, but with the added
heat in the atmosphere and oceans
due to greenhouse gas emissions, storms now occur with increasing
accumulated energy and higher moisture loading.
Crazy statistical inference of the week We can measure a higher daily average temperature while
accumulating less
heat due to the biases created by the minimum.