Parts of Canada have had
average temperature increases of 0.5 ºC to 1.5 ºC.
If we allow sustained global
average temperature increases of more than 1 degree Celsius, we will suffer irreversible climate destabilization and a planet largely inhospitable to human civilization.
Global
average temperature increases of 0.74 °C are already documented, and temperature increases in some areas are projected to exceed 3.0 °C over the next decade.
NASA researchers found that countries in the Northern Hemisphere had
an average temperature increase of 0.93 C, and latitudes around 60 degrees north or above had
an average temperature increase of 1.8 C, according to Gavin Schmidt, director of GISS and principal investigator for the GISS Model E Earth System Model.
ACPI assumes a 1 percent annual increase in the rate of greenhouse gas concentrations through the year 2100, for little change in precipitation and
an average temperature increase of 1.5 to 2 degrees centigrade at least through the middle of 21st century.
Alaska has seen
an average temperature increase of 4 °F since...
In the New Policies Scenario, the world is on a trajectory that results in a level of emissions consistent with a long - term
average temperature increase of more than 3.5 °C.
«Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally
averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll - back of the industrial age,» Lindzen was quoted, offering praise for Christopher C. Horner's Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally
averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly exaggerated computer predictions combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.
These efforts would result in
an average temperature increase of 2.7 °C by 2100, at which point temperatures are unlikely to have stabilised and would continue to rise.
An average temperature increase of 1 C will be a benefit to the planet, as every past warming has been in human history.
Since 1895, the CONUS has observed
an average temperature increase of 0.15 °F per decade.
There is medium confidence that at least partial deglaciation of the Greenland ice sheet, and possibly the West Antarctic ice sheet, would occur over a period of time ranging from centuries to millennia for a global
average temperature increase of 1 - 4 °C (relative to 1990 - 2000), causing a contribution to sea - level rise of 4 - 6 m or more.
A 1ºC increase above the year 2000 level means
an average temperature increase of around 1.7 ºC above the pre-industrial average.
This leaves the world on a trajectory consistent with a long - term
average temperature increase of 3.6 °C, far above the internationally agreed 2 °C target.»
Not exact matches
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.
But rising sea levels and
increasing average temperatures due to climate change are further expanding the destructive reach
of these storms.
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.
In a small study at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook, fertility researchers found that men who sat with working laptops on their laps for an hour had an
average increase in scrotal
temperature of about 5 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 2.7 degrees Celsius.
It shows that the greatest threats to the UK come from periods
of too much or too little water,
increasing average and extreme seasonal
temperatures, and rising sea levels.
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»);
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.
Increases in
average temperature and rainfall were associated in Zanzibar with higher numbers
of cholera cases within a definite time period.
«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.
Rising
temperatures — an
average increase in the United States
of 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years — are exacerbating a whole range
of modern ills, including pollution, urban crowding, and inadequate medical facilities.
Substantial reductions in the extent
of Arctic sea ice since 1978 (2.7 ± 0.6 percent per decade in the annual
average, 7.4 ± 2.4 percent per decade for summer),
increases in permafrost
temperatures and reductions in glacial extent globally and in Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have also been observed in recent decades.
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.
«As
average temperatures and yearly hours
of sunshine decrease and latitude
increases, rates
of alcohol - attributable cirrhosis
increase.
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.»
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.
In its most recent study
of the impact
of climate change, the Bureau
of Meteorology noted that
average temperatures across Australia have
increased by almost 1 °C since 1910, and could rise by up to 5 °C by 2070.
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.
«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.
The
average summer
temperature in Boston stands to
increase by as much as 14 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, bringing with it a sharp rise in the number
of deadly hot spells.
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.
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.
In other words, a drop
of 10 °C in the
average temperature over seven days, which is common in several countries because
of seasonal variations, is associated with an
increased risk in being hospitalized or dying
of heart failure
of about 7 percent in people aged over 65 diagnosed with the disease..
Following Earth's last ice age, which peaked 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic warmed between two and three times the
average temperature increase worldwide, according to a new study by a team
of American geophysicists.
Temperature increases close to or above the
average.61 degrees F rise were seen in some
of the world's most popular waters, including Lake Tahoe (+.97 F by hand, +1.28 by satellite), the Dead Sea (+1.13 F), two reservoirs serving New York City, Seattle's Lake Washington (+.49 F), and the Great Lakes Huron (+1.53 F by hand, +.79 by satellite), Michigan (+.76 F by hand, +.36 by satellite), Ontario (+.59 F) and Superior (+2.09 F by hand measurement, +1.44 F by satellite).
In areas like the mid-elevations
of the northern Rocky Mountains, where spring
temperatures are just under freezing in an
average year, «it doesn't take a large
increase in
temperature to start melting snow earlier in spring,» said Anthony Westerling, a professor
of environmental engineering and geography at the University
of California, Merced.
Australia has already seen its
average temperatures increase more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit over that
of the last century, according to data from CSIRO, Australia's national scientific agency, and the Bureau
of Meteorology.
By 2080, the
average temperature in Uganda, for example, will rise to 29 degree Celsius (an
increase of 4.3 degrees above the current
average), according to a report by U.K. Department for International Development and LTS International.
Southern Ocean seafloor water
temperatures are projected to warm by an
average of 0.4 °C over this century with some areas possibly
increasing by as much as 2 °C.
«What we found was that when the difference
of the monthly
average temperature in the current month compared with the previous one month
increased by 1 degree, there was a 3 per cent
increase in suicide in Brisbane and Sydney,» Dr Qi said.
The
increase in
average monthly
temperature was most noticeable over the months
of November, December and January.
A team
of researchers from the University
of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Society found that over the past 166 years, the country's
average monthly
temperatures have
increased by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a 0.14 C change per decade.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy
of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree
increase in
average global
temperatures.
Some
of the discussion revolves around the goal, adopted by nations at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen,
of limiting the global
average temperature increase to 2 °C.