Not exact matches
(There is such a thing as ENSO — and other variations in ocean circulation, that create
annual differences in the
amount of heat the oceans absorp from the
warming atmosphere, creating relatively cool and relatively
warm years.)
And remember, the satellite data are one small part
of a vast
amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is
warming up: retreating glaciers, huge
amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral»
of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier
annual starts
of warm weather and later starts
of cold weather,
warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...
Because the temp series have had more plastic surgery than Heidi Montag Here's the actual
amount of annual temperature change when based on the average
of day to day difference between today's
warming and tonight's cooling.
Per NOAA's published
annual mean temperatures, the modern
warming trend for the U.S., since the beginning
of 1950,
amounts to an increase
of 1.35 °C by century end.
The 2007 IPCC report found that the cost
of actions to stabilize concentrations
of heat - trapping emissions at a level that gives us a good chance
of avoiding dangerous
warming would
amount to less than a 0.12 percent reduction in average
annual global gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in 2050.
More recently, in March 2016, nearly two - thirds (64 %)
of Americans polled told Gallup's
annual environmental poll that they are worried a «great deal» or a «fair
amount» about global
warming.
It is likely that every year
annual variance in the
amount of water vapour in the atmosphere exceeds the
warming effects
of human CO2.
Our analysis shows that China's emissions might not peak until 2030, but by then its
annual emissions could
amount to half
of the carbon budget — what is allowed in order to stay within the 2 °C
warming target.