Sentences with phrase «average temperature rise expected»

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Wildfires have gotten worse in recent years because of climate change, and that trend is expected to continue as Earth's average temperature rises.

The Southwest, for example, is one of the warmest and driest regions in the country, and it's expected to see average temperatures rise another 2.5 to 5.5 degrees in the coming decades, the assessment says.

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

And can the ordinary person really be expected to notice that the earth's average temperature has risen by 04ºC in the last 80 years?

The number of days each year above 95 ° Fahrenheit (35 ° Celsius) is expected to rise across the United States, and average summer temperatures will reach new heights if greenhouse gas emissions remain high.

Depending on what steps people took to restrict emissions, by the end of the century we could expect the planet's average temperature to rise anywhere between about 1.4 and 6 °C (2.5 — 11 °F).

Temperatures in the region are expected to rise by an average of up to 3 degrees Fahrenheit within the next 20 years, and up to 10º by 2070.

«You would expect that the temperatures in the north would be rising faster than the global average,» Laaksonen said.

A certain type of flow that is necessary for them to grow also steers the storms toward the pole, and these flows are expected to become stronger when average temperatures rise.

In Australia, the average temperature has increased by about 0.9 °C since 1950 and is expected to rise further.

In a report published last month, Scott found that average February temperatures for the 19 previous Winter Olympic host cities could be expected to rise between 3.4 and 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, and up to 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2090, leaving only six previous host cities cold enough to host the Games 75 years from now.

Because the models predict little average precipitation increase nationwide over this period, the product of CAPE and precipitation gives about a 12 percent rise in cloud - to - ground lightning strikes per degree in the contiguous U.S., or a roughly 50 percent increase by 2100 if Earth sees the expected 4 - degree Celsius increase (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature.

According to the results, the area covered by carbon - rich frozen ground in the Arctic is expected to shrink by 4m square km for every extra degree that global average surface temperature rises.

In June, expect average temperatures to hover around 26 °C during the day, rising to 30 °C at the end of the month.

Expect average temperatures of 15 °C in February, rising to around 24 °C in May, when the beach resorts kick off the summer season.

After all, if average surface temperature is 15 C, wouldn't you expect land and ocean below the surface to equilibrate at roughly that temperature (with a slightly rising gradient to account for the flow of Earth's internal heat)?

My questions, the answers to which I may have missed in this string, are how can one relate the forcing at 2XCO2 to an expected atmospheric temperature rise in a way that a citizen can understand; and is the forcing as stated as a degree C to be compared with the forcing at 280 ppm (pre industrial) NOT with today's measured temperature or rise above average?

If I understand them, a reduction of 50 - 85 % of CO2 emissions will be required to stabilize at year 2000 levels, which may be expected to produce a global average temperature rise of around 2C.

But mean temperatures are expected to rise faster than the global average, decreasing crop yields, deepening poverty.

Average temperatures in forested parts of the U.S. West have gone up about 2.5 degrees F since 1970, and are expected to keep rising.

CSE climate researchers say more heat waves were expected as globally temperatures had risen by an average 0.8 degrees in the past 100 years.

We might expect «global warming» (i.e., an increase in average surface air temperatures over a few decades) to lead to a rise in global mean sea levels.

Further climate change is expected to intensify these effects on North Sea plankton, cod, and marine ecosystems.7 By 2100, scientists estimate that average world sea surface temperatures could rise as much as 5.4 ° F (3 ° C) if our heat - trapping emissions continue unabated.13, 14

Teton County can expect a more moderate increase in temperatures, with annual winter averages rising from a historical 15 oF to 24oF.

It is clear that sea level rise acts as a natural low - pass filter of average atmospheric temperature, as we would expect.

For a simple system, the temperature will rise; for a complicated system, one would typically expect that average of the temperature over the system would rise.

As he pointed out, a dominant unforced contribution to surface warming relative to forced trends would be expected to be accompanied by a trend of declining OHC, which is inconsistent with the observed trends averaged over the past half century as evidenced by mixed layer temperature measurements and sea level rise.

we should have a good explanation why the average surface temperatures have not risen since 1998 even though CO2 atmospheric levels have increased (like you would expect from a simplistic model).

Although plants in the colder regions are expected to thrive as average global temperatures rise, even this benefit could be limited.

But mean temperatures are expected to rise faster in the continent than the global average, decreasing crop yields and deepening poverty.

• Average temperature rises of up to 3.4 degrees C in capital cities by 2070 − so that we can expect the number of days each year with temperatures over 35 degrees to double.

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.

Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. rips RealClimate.org's claims: «It is straightforward to shed doubt on Gavin Schmidt's (and the IPCC) claim» — «If the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentration were so dominate we would expect the global average [annual] lower troposphere temperature to more - or less monotonically continue to rise in the last decade or so.

Because the models predict little average precipitation increase nationwide over this period, the product of CAPE and precipitation gives about a 12 percent rise in cloud - to - ground lightning strikes per degree in the contiguous U.S., or a roughly 50 percent increase by 2100 if Earth sees the expected 4 - degree Celsius increase (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature.

Regional Vice President for South Asia Isabel Guerrero discusses how an expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty.

Washington DC, June 19, 2013 — An expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty across the region, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.

Sea level rise here is happening 3 - 4 times as quickly as the global average — with the expectation, the USGS says, that «if global temperatures continue to rise, rates of sea level rise in this area are expected to continue increasing.»

As emissions of heat - trapping gases continue to rise, and global average temperatures continue to increase, we can expect even more of the of extreme heat and related impacts we've been witnessing in recent years.

In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changes.