Sentences with phrase «average surface temperatures increased»

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

Let's take a closer look: globally, average surface temperatures increased 1.1 — 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 — 0.9 degrees Celsius) between 1906 and 2005.

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

From that year through 2012, Earth's yearly average surface temperature increased at one - third to one - half the average rate from 1951 through 2012.

Today scientists have very high confidence about human - caused global average surface temperature increase — a key climate indicator.

The global average surface temperature increase due to a doubling of carbon dioxide is going to be closer to 1.2 degrees C, according to science reviewed by the IPCC.

In its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)(published in 2007), the IPCC reported that from 1901 - 2005, the global average surface temperature increased by 0.78 °C.

However, changes to climate that come with AGW or would tend to come with GW in general are more than a global average surface temperature increase, and ACC could be seen as a more all - encompassing term.

Even if we assume that the average surface temperature increased by 0.8 C over the 60 year period causing an increase of 4.3 W / m2 in Su, then τ changes by 0.6 % rather than the 0.9 % in your example.

Not exact matches

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.

«There has been an average of one additional tropical cyclone for each 0.1 - degree Celsius increase in sea surface temperature and one hurricane for each 0.2 - degree Celsius rise,» they write in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

However, the average surface temperature of the planet seems to have increased far more slowly over this period than it did over the previous decades.

The misunderstanding stems from data showing that during the past decade there was a slowing in the rate at which the earth's average surface temperature had been increasing.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

Climate model simulations suggest that on average, as the surface temperature and moisture increases the conditions for thunderstorms becomes more frequent.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

The reduction — averaging about 1 % per year — is related to increasing sea surface temperatures, says the paper, published tomorrow in the journal Nature.

Abstract: Analyses of underground temperature measurements from 358 boreholes in eastern North America, central Europe, southern Africa, and Australia indicate that, in the 20th century, the average surface temperature of Earth has increased by about 0.5 degrees C and that the 20th century has been the warmest of the past five centuries.

Global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over...

Expressed as a global average, surface temperatures have increased by about 0.74 °C over the past hundred years (between 1906 and 2005; see Figure 1).

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

Global mean temperatures averaged over land and ocean surfaces, from three different estimates, each of which has been independently adjusted for various homogeneity issues, are consistent within uncertainty estimates over the period 1901 to 2005 and show similar rates of increase in recent decades.

These rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have led to an increase in global average temperatures of ~ 0.2 °C decade — 1, much of which has been absorbed by the oceans, whilst the oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO2 has led to major changes in surface ocean pH (Levitus et al., 2000, 2005; Feely et al., 2008; Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno, 2010; Mora et al., 2013; Roemmich et al., 2015).

global warming The increase in Earth's surface air temperatures, on average, across the globe and over decades.

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

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.

Two decades after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, most governments have agreed that limiting the increase in the average surface temperature of the Earth to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would represent a tolerable amount of global warming.

It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.

... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the annual cycle.

AR5: It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.

The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

Item 8 could be confusing in having so many messages: «It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas... The best estimate of the human - induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period....

From the abstract: «Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001.»

Finally, to revisit the question originally posed @ 203: Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

According to the published report, there is no longer a discrepancy in the rate of global average temperature increase for the surface compared with higher levels in the atmosphere.

This letter is to seek the involvement of the World Meteorological Society (WMO) in advancing world climate monitoring by a significant improvement in the method of gathering the temperature measurements used to calculate global average temperature at the Earth's surface so that the precision of this calculation can be increased.

Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

Abstract: Analyses of underground temperature measurements from 358 boreholes in eastern North America, central Europe, southern Africa, and Australia indicate that, in the 20th century, the average surface temperature of Earth has increased by about 0.5 degrees C and that the 20th century has been the warmest of the past five centuries.

The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

The current average surface temperature is ~ 16C, an increase of ~ 1C over the past century.

It is extremely likely * that human activities have caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature since the 1950s.

the differential cloud change (dcc) of each day is equal to daily average cloud change (x), minus an averaging period of three days which begins five days prior to each date,... «-RRB-, linked to a transient decrease in cosmic rays, is associated with a transient increase of surface level air temperature.

During the period 1992 - 2000, the average sea - surface temperature of the Indian Ocean increased by approximately 0.25 Celsius, this may be the cause of an increased monsoon strength here (or more hurricanes on other places)...

There have been decades, such as 2000 — 2009, when the observed globally averaged surface - temperature time series shows little increase or even a slightly negative trend1 (a hiatus period).

(and not allowing surface temperature variation to increase so much that the average temperature drops significantly relative to global average OLR)

'' If and when CO2 concentration in the atmosphere reaches 550 ppm, what will be the increase in global average surface temperature relative to the year 2000?»

This increased overturning appears to explain much of the recent slowdown in the rise of global average surface temperatures.

This seems to misunderstand the climate system lag time: «If and when CO2 concentration in the atmosphere reaches 550 ppm, what will be the increase in global average surface temperature relative to the year 2000?»