Sentences with phrase «average surface temperature»

The temperature changes are relative to the global average surface temperature of 1961 - 1990.

It is worth noting that, in the absence of convection, pure greenhouse warming would lead to a globally averaged surface temperature of 72 °C given current conditions.

It's easy to see that there was a sharp increase in global average surface temperatures from the 1970s through the end of the 1990s.

And that's because globally averaged surface temperature responds to a lot of different factors.

It looks like some sort of hybrid between AR4 projections for tropical sea temperature increase and global average surface temperature rise.

Global warming is the increase of earth's average surface temperature due to the effect of greenhouse gases.

Human civilization developed over a period of 10,000 years during which global average surface temperatures remained remarkably stable, hovering within one degree Celsius of where they are today.

These findings are consistent with evidence that the effects of climate change have increased average surface temperatures around the world and shortened winter seasons.

While average surface temperatures hold steady, deep seawater is warming up.

With an increase in global average surface temperatures comes higher odds of heat waves.

Global average surface temperatures increased on average by about 0.6 degrees Celsius over the period 1956 - 2006.

The heat content in the ocean, for example, is increasing more steadily than globally averaged surface temperatures.

What's more, there are several long - term records of global annual average surface temperatures.

We found that unforced variability is large enough so that it could have accounted for multidecadal changes in the rate - of - increase of global average surface temperature over the 20th century.

The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for June 2017 was one the warmest on record.

Nonetheless, there is a tendency for similar equilibrium climate sensitivity ECS, especially using a Charney ECS defined as equilibrium global time average surface temperature change per unit tropopause - level forcing with stratospheric adjustment, for different types of forcings (CO2, CH4, solar) if the forcings are not too idiosyncratic.

Recent model results, by contrast, suggest that significant impacts will persist for hundreds of thousands of years after emissions cease;» Matthews and Caldeira (2008): «We show first that a single pulse of carbon released into the atmosphere increases globally averaged surface temperature by an amount that remains approximately constant for several centuries, even in the absence of additional emissions.»

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says average surface temperatures on Earth rose 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit (0.95 degrees Celsius) between 1880 and 2016, and that change is accelerating in recent years.

Defining climate merely as average surface temperature is far too simplistic.

NOAA said the combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January - October period was 0.68 °C (1.22 °F) above the 20th century average of 14.1 °C (57.4 °F).

It is far too cold for liquid water, with average surface temperatures of -149 °C.

«New Research Report on the Validity of Global Average Surface Temperature Data and EPA's GHG Endangerment Finding The Climate Alarmists» Gross Perversion of the Word Clean»

And in some sense I think the scientific community and the diplomatic community have almost unwittingly played into the hands of the so - called climate denialists by focusing so much on global average surface temperatures when there are all kinds of factors that affect it.

Jacob (and many, many others) seem to think that if model A, when run from 1900 to present, predicts the relatively flat, global average surface temperature record over the past decade, is a better match to reality than model B which does not.

Second, IAMs specifically aim to have global average surface temperatures below 1.5 C in 2100, rather than limiting warming to no more than 1.5 C at any point between present and 2100.

Michaels also suggests that temperatures in 2015, while still being «the highest average surface temperature in the 160 - year global history since reliable records started being available,» had a «de minimis» effect on the global economy.

The bar graph below shows two estimates of yearly average surface temperature change both derived from ERA - Interim.

Spurred by climate change and heat from a monster El Niño, the global average surface temperature last year was 0.94 degrees Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 20th century average of 13.9 ° C (57 ° F).

For the contiguous United States and Alaska, 2016 was the second - warmest year on record and the 20th consecutive year that the annual average surface temperature exceeded the 122 - year average since record keeping began, according to NOAA.

I was referring to the plot of absolute average surface temperatures from different models against the projected rate of warming for 2011 to 2070 from those same models; this is the next to last graphic from Gavin's post.

First they said the Mars and Venus measurements weren't measured, just computed; then they said we couldn't measure temperatures on other planets; then they said we'd need billions of measurements to estimate average surface temperature.