Sentences with phrase «average global temperatures of»

The predicted rise in average global temperatures of 4 °C in the course of this century would transform human life over a major part of the planet.

Global warming Increase in average global temperatures of the atmosphere and oceans over the past 100 years.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

Their stock prices and business plans depend on digging up and burning these reserves, which would lead to an unsustainable increase in the average global temperature of between 6 and 12 degrees or more.

The strong El Niño is likely playing a role as the average global temperature of an El Niño year is 0.4 °F higher than a La Niña year.

The first scenario was that of Mars as warm and wet with an average global temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) and the second as cold and icy with an average global temperature of minus 54 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius).

☻ In pre-industrial times prior to AGW, the natural non-condensing GHGs (NOGs, apparently) gave an average global temperature of 287K, 32K above the theoretical 255K black - body temperature.

Let's assume an average global temperature of 0 degrees Celsius and a subsequent volcanic eruption whose aerosols cool that temperature to -.1 degrees.

Do you consider that an increase in average global temperature of 4 — 8 C would produce «adverse climate change impacts»?

Sorry Pat, I neglected to reply to your question, «Do you consider that an increase in average global temperature of 4 — 8 C would produce «adverse climate change impacts»?

The average global temperature of 288 K is a massive WAG at the» surface.»

Scientists and climate models don't expect any relief in the future, both agree that the average global temperature of the Earth will continue to rise which is bad news for us.

Estimated long - term variations in average global temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface are graphed along with average troposphere CO2 levels over the past 160,000 years.

11 Temperature change over past 1,000 years Temperature change (C °) Figure 20.2 Science: estimated changes in the average global temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface over different periods of time.

10 Temperature change over past 22,000 years Agriculture established Temperature change (C °) End of last ice age Average temperature over past 10,000 years = 15 °C (59 °F) Figure 20.2 Science: estimated changes in the average global temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface over different periods of time.

Since the last ice age, which ended about 11,000 years ago, Earth's climate has been relatively stable, with an average global temperature of about 14 °C.

Therefore, the average flux of solar power striking on the surface, after attenuation by the atmosphere, is 342 W / m ^ 2, which causes an average global temperature of ~ 20 K. No need to invent a nonexistent greenhouse effect.

AGW says that the average of energy received by the surface of the Earth, after attenuated by the atmosphere, is 161 W / m ^ 2, which causes an average global temperature of — 42.3 °C.

Not exact matches

Hoegh - Guldberg said scientific consensus was that hikes in carbon dioxide and the average global temperature were «almost certain to destroy the coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds if not thousands of years».

The global temperature average has increased by 1.4 degrees F, which may not seem like a lot, but the effects of the increase are being seen and felt globally.

The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

If nothing is done to prevent the expected rise of 2 degrees Celsius in global average temperatures by 2050:

Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

Last week Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, estimated that the average global temperature in 2016 could range from about 1.1 °C above preindustrial to only slightly below 1.5 °C, based on GISS's temperature record and its definition of pre-industrial (other records and definitions vary).

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.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impacts.

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.

The document cites a goal of holding the global rise in average global temperatures to 2 ºC but does not specify a long - term goal for reducing emissions.

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range of plausible emissions, the global temperature will increase at an average rate of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.

IPCC estimates, using the best and longest record available, show that the difference between the 1986 - 2005 global average temperature value used in most of the Panel's projections, and pre-industrial global average temperature, is 0.61 °C (0.55 - 0.67).

On Dec. 12, 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

January's mark of 1.4 °C, put the global average temperature change from early industrial levels for the first three months of 2016 at 1.48 °C.

The average global temperature change for the first three months of 2016 was 1.48 °C, essentially equaling the 1.5 °C warming threshold agreed to by COP 21 negotiators in Paris last December.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

Climate Central scientists and statisticians made these calculations based on an average of global temperature data reported by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

But climate models predict reductions in dissolved oxygen in all oceans as average global air and sea temperatures rise, and this may be the main driver of what is happening there, she says.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

The Paris Agreement sets the goal of holding the increase in the global average mean temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels but calls for efforts to limit that increase to 1.5 °C.

A U.N. Environment Program report released last week showed that, taken together, the NDCs only account for a third of the necessary emissions reductions needed to keep global average temperatures from heating 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.

To achieve 450 ppm, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere associated with a 2 - degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures (a target advocated by the European Union), the «aggregate of fossil - fuel demand will peak out in 2020,» Tanaka says.

In this study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers mapped the global occurrence of mammalian species living in different social systems to determine how averages and variation in rainfall and temperature explain species distributions.

The average drop in global temperatures after Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top in 1991, spewing 20 million tons of sun - blocking sulfur dioxide.

The results show that even though there has been a slowdown in the warming of the global average temperatures on the surface of Earth, the warming has continued strongly throughout the troposphere except for a very thin layer at around 14 - 15 km above the surface of Earth where it has warmed slightly less.

That graph is a jazzed - up graph of average global temperatures since 2001 and shows, essentially, no trend.

One period of particular interest is a warm, wet interglacial stage known as the Eemian that occurred from 124,000 to 119,000 years ago, featuring average global temperatures about 2 °C warmer than today.