Sentences with phrase «average temperature rise in»

A standing problem in climate science is to account for the 0.5 C average temperature rise in Europe in the last three decades, which models don't reproduce.

He points out, for example, that there's been a period of global cooling since the 18th - century onset of the Industrial Revolution — from the 1940s to the 1960s — and that average temperatures rose in Europe between 1050 and 1300, even though there was no heavy industry going on back then.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

As Mann explained, the rising temperatures in the region add up to 1 °C to 1.5 °C higher temperatures than average a few decades ago.

There is a direct connection between the current changes in the world's atmosphere and the rise in average temperature; this is known as global warming or the «greenhouse effect».

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?

with local weather patterns, but the consistent rise in average global temperatures.

Cuomo joined California in signing on to the Under 2 MOU, an agreement between states, provinces and local governments across the world to cap the rising average temperature by the year 2100.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

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.

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.

A new study suggests that it would take at least 25 years for a significant difference in the rise of average temperatures to be detected after pollution cuts were in place

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.

Meanwhile, average air temperatures in the region rose 1.5 °C over the past 5 decades, nearly twice the global average.

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.

«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.

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 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.

Conservative climate models predict that average temperatures in the US Midwest will rise by 4 °C over the next century.

Calculations made in the late 1960s suggested that average temperatures would rise a few degrees within the next century.

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 fact, average temperatures need only rise by 1.1 °C to have this effect (American Naturalist, doi.org/mfr).

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

But when average temperatures rise, as is happening in many places around the world because of climate change, big blocks of ice melt more quickly than they can grow during the winter.

While average global temperatures in the mid-Pliocene rose only 3.6 to 5.4 F, the Arctic was a totally different world.

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 fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas emissions this decade required to meet that goal.

And although companies are pledging to do more than ever to reduce emissions, «disparity [exists] between companies» strategies, targets and the emissions reductions» that climate scientists say will be necessary to limit the rise in average global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius.

Although there was disagreement on exactly what should be done, there appeared to be a consensus that action should be taken to avert a 2 - degree Celsius (3.6 - degree Fahrenheit) rise in average global temperatures and to cut emissions of greenhouse gases in half by 2050.

While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

But here's your question: why we should be concerned even with the global temperature rise that has been predicted, let's say by 2050, of probably around 2 degrees C; one should understand that in the Ice Age — the depths of the Ice Age — the Earth was colder on a global average by about 5 degrees C.

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.

A recent report by two leading nonprofits, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the 11 U.S. western states together have experienced an increase in average temperature during the last five years some 70 percent greater than the global average rise.

Climate change is aiding shipping, fisheries and tourism in the Arctic but the economic gains fall short of a «cold rush» for an icy region where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the world average.

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.

One of the planet's hotspots has been the outsized warming in the Arctic, which is seeing a temperature rise double that of the global average.

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

In their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day valuIn their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day valuin the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day valuin 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day value.

It's an area described as a climate «hot spot,» with temperatures in many parts rising faster than the global average.

Laaksonen and his colleagues did not try to predict how Finland's temperatures will change in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st century.

If we can rein in emissions enough to keep global average temperatures from rising 2 C (3.6 F), we can avert the biggest shocks to Earth's system, scientists say.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

However, both of these strategies create a major risk that average temperatures will rise above the 2 °C goal — a target set by international agreement in order to avoid the most dire consequences of climate change.

If the average temperature in summer were to rise by 4 oC or less, the ice could be melted completely within a few years, says M. I. Budyko, a Russian researcher.

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