Sentences with phrase «average temperature rise over»

While the 5 degree F average temperature rise over the area is causing large areas of permafrost to begin melting deeper, these facilities are built on gravel.

Not exact matches

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

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.

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

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

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).

«We still don't know exactly where the meltwater came from, but given that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,» Thompson said.

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.

In this region, the average temperature has risen 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years and the average precipitation has risen by 2.1 inches per year over the past 25 years.

Over the 20th century, the average global temperature rose by 0.8 °C.

Over the last 25 years, the average global temperature has risen by 0.6 °C.

However, make no mistake, the globe's average temperature has still risen over that period (including record heat in 2014) and temperatures now are the hottest they've been since recordkeeping began in the 1880s.

Over a period of forty years the average temperature near Felbrigg Hall has risen with 1.15 degrees Celsius.

This translates into an average temperature rise of 4.3 C over land in the northern hemisphere where most of the world's population lives, and even more in urban areas.

Diurnal temperature range (DTR) decreased by 0.07 °C per decade averaged over 1950 to 2004, but had little change from 1979 to 2004, as both maximum and minimum temperatures rose at similar rates.

Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.

Third, using a «semi-empirical» statistical model calibrated to the relationship between temperature and global sea - level change over the last 2000 years, we find that, in alternative histories in which the 20th century did not exceed the average temperature over 500-1800 CE, global sea - level rise in the 20th century would (with > 95 % probability) have been less than 51 % of its observed value.

However, make no mistake, the globe's average temperature has still risen over that period (including

Buildings across both regions were built for the historical climate, which didn't require air conditioning, yet Colorado has seen average temperatures rise 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years.

Ocean temperatures have been rising about 0.12 degrees Celsius per decade on average over the past 50 years.

The average temperature on Earth has barely risen over the past 16 years, indicating that global warming is currently taking a break - though that doesn't mean it's over yet.

Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

However their predictions are about much more than just the average near - surface air temperature, they are mainly focused on how heat mixes into the ocean and how that affects the rise in surface temperature as CO2 is doubled over 100 years.

In the New Policies Scenario, cumulative CO2 emissions over the next 25 years amount to three - quarters of the total from the past 110 years, leading to a long - term average temperature rise of 3.5 °C.

«Average temperature in the West rose by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last few decades,» researcher Phil van Mantgem said.

Along the Antarctic Peninsula, in the vicinity of the Larsen Ice Shelf, the average temperature has risen 2.5 degrees Celsius over the last five decades.

Clearly the rate at which TOA imbalance diffuses into and through the global ocean is key to how much and how quickly global average surface temperature will rise over any given span of time.

That's a remarkable rise over just 18 years, in comparison to the 1 °C the Earth's average surface temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution began.

Assuming that no action is taken to reduce emissions, computer models of the earth's climate indicate that global average surface temperatures will rise by 1.5 - 4.5 C over the next 100 years.

That is why, to us, the rise in the concentration of these greenhouse gases manifests itself as global warming, a rise in the average temperatures over the Earth's surface.

dH / dt was calculated for us as nearly 0.3 W / m2 averaged over this period, and I took 0.6 C as the temperature rise in this period.

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.

The increasing failure of the monsoon has been attributed to a number of factors including temperatures rising by an average 0.5 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years, receding Himalayan glaciers and rising sea levels.

How much must I reduce my greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if I want to do my fair share to contribute towards the global effort to keep global warming below a 2 °C rise in average temperature over preindustrial times?

The PDO has more or less averaged out over the twentieth century as the temperature has risen.

Christy is correct to note that the model average warming trend (0.23 °C / decade for 1978 - 2011) is a bit higher than observations (0.17 °C / decade over the same timeframe), but that is because over the past decade virtually every natural influence on global temperatures has acted in the cooling direction (i.e. an extended solar minimum, rising aerosols emissions, and increased heat storage in the deep oceans).

As a consequence, between 1971 - 2000 and 1981 - 2010 the Dutch average temperatures have risen by 0.42 degrees (per decade)-- more than twice the global average and indicative for relatively rapid warming over much of Western Europe.

On the spindly peninsula that stretches out toward South America, temperatures have risen rapidly, nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, about 10 times as much as the average temperature rise worldwide.

Although the increase in average surface temperature has stalled over the past 16 years, average temperatures in the deep ocean — where most of the extra heat in the climate system is stored — has continued to rise.

Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5 °F over the next hundred years.»

THE traditional owners of the region surrounding Lake Eyre are being warned by university researchers to prepare for 4C rises in average temperatures in the South Australian outback over the next century as a result of climate change.

However, they acknowledge that average temperatures across the UK have increased by more than 1 °C over the last 100 years, with a particularly steep rise since the early 1960s.

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.

The predicted rise in average global temperatures of 4 °C in the course of this century would transform human life over a major part of the planet.

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.

Our results show that the average temperature of the earth's land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years.

10 °C rises in global average temperatures have not only occurred during the last 600 million years, but they are the defining characteristic of the temperature record over that time.

Berkeley Earth, a team of scientists I helped establish, found that the average land temperature had risen 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past 250 years.

The average land temperature on earth has risen 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years — essentially all of it caused by human emission of greenhouses gases.