Sentences with phrase «average temperatures by»

This stabilization was due to: 1) Social effects of globalization that reduced reproductive rates below replacement levels, 2) Several genetic engineering disasters between 2020 and 2035 that killed tens of millions of people, 3) A nuclear exchange in the MidEast in 2021 that lead to a mini - «nuclear winter,» cutting average temperatures by five degrees for a year, and 4) A punitive tax on non-renewable carbon - based energy quadrupled costs and led to more efficient use of energy resources.

All of these costs plus the additional costs for the years beyond our analysis will moderate world average temperatures by no more than nine hundredths of a degree in 2050 and no more than three tenths of a degree in 2100.

A doubling of the pre-industrial levels of atmospheric CO2 of roughly 280 parts per million, which could occur within decades unless people curb greenhouse - gas emissions, could eventually boost global average temperatures by around 9 degrees C.»

Judith, why did your paper plot SSTs and global average temperatures by year but then fail to plot hurricanes by year when we have such a thorough HURDAT dataset series?

An increase in carbon dioxide concentrations that is «unprecedented» in the last 20,000 years, along with increases in other emissions, have driven up average temperatures by about 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) since 1950, the report states.

«Our headline finding is that the combustion of currently known fossil fuels would increase global average temperatures by 10 degrees F to 15 degrees F,» the economists say.

The old story line: People need to worry about climate change because doubling the atmosphere's concentration of carbon dioxide relative to its preindustrial level would probably raise global average temperatures by 2.7 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit.

We have heard that we will need to reduce atmospheric CO2 to 350ppm and stabilize there, and that we are on track for a 2 degree increase in global average temperatures by mid-century, which will be disastrous.

However, under business as usual emissions are set to increase global average temperatures by approximately 2.5 °C.

Such an increase in CO2 emissions could raise global average temperatures by 6 °C or more, resulting in significant impacts on all aspects of life and irreversible changes in the natural environment.

Did you know that numerous climate scientists are worried sick that we may be looking at rapid climate change that could raise global average temperatures by 5 - 10 degrees Celsius before the end of this century?

[30] The United States could effectively bring all economic activity to a halt and cut carbon emissions to zero in the U.S. and still lower average temperatures by no more than 0.2 degree Celsius by 2100.

Figure 18.2: Projected increase in annual average temperatures by mid-century (2041 - 2070) as compared to the 1971 - 2000 period tell only part of the climate change story.

The idea that all the ice can melt is preposterous because no amount of warming, natural or otherwise, will drop the average temperatures by enough to completely melt the poles.

The real forecast is 383 ppm rising at 2 ppm / year, a minimum carbon dioxide sensitivity to doubling of 3 C, adding positive feedbacks, some of which are unknown, yields a 5 C increase in global average temperatures by 2100, and of course, time does not stop in 2100.

However, at the increased levels seen since the Industrial Revolution (roughly 275 ppm then, 400 ppm now; Figure 2 - 1), greenhouse gases are contributing to the rapid rise of our global average temperatures by trapping more heat, often referred to as human - caused climate change.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

A comparison of their temperature data with the AWI long - term measurements taken on Spitsbergen has shown that the temperature in the central Arctic in February 2016 exceeded average temperatures by up to 8 °C.

All told, the consortium estimates that current policies around the globe translate into a 3.6 °C increase in average temperatures by 2100, compared with preindustrial levels, well above the 2 °C threshold often noted by scientists, or the 1.5 °C goal set out in Paris.

As a result, the climate policy scenario lowered global average temperatures by 0.27 degrees in 2050, which is more than when only short - lived climate forcers were controlled.

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

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.

That increase in CO2 and other greenhouse gases has raised Earth's average temperature by 1.6 °F since the beginning of the 20th century.

On average, the models predicted an 11 percent increase in CAPE in the U.S. per degree Celsius rise in global average temperature by the end of the 21st century.

Global warming is predicted to raise the average temperature by 2.5 °C by 2100.

• 2 to 4.5 °C is lifting range that must suffer the global average temperature by the end of this century according to estimates made by the UN IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

At 0.2 C century global ocean warming it'll take 1000 years not 400 years to raise global average temperature by 2.0 C.

By the early 1980s, a fairly broad consensus had emerged in the climate change research community that greenhouse gas emissions could, by 2050, result in a rise in global average temperature by 1.5 ° to 4.5 °C (about 2.7 ° to 8.0 °F) and a complex pattern of worldwide climate changes.

In the Assessment's 1200 horror - studded pages, almost everything that happens in our complex world â $» sex, birth, disease, death, hunger, and wars, to name a few â $» is somehow made worse by pernicious emissions of carbon dioxide and the joggling of surface average temperature by a mere two degrees.

There is a little reported school of AGW skepticism that keeps on pointing out that it makes no sense to construct a global average temperature by averaging individual temperatures over the earth's surface because:

The presumed sensitivity of 0.8 C + / - 0.4 C per W / m ^ 2 is indeed falsifiable as both data and theory tell us that the last average W / m ^ 2 of forcing from the Sun increased the average temperature by no more than 0.3 C.

Various models predict that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere will raise the world's average temperature by as little as 1.5 degrees Celsius or as much as 4.5 degrees.

It is also unsound to treat measures that reduce average temperature by increasing reflectivity as physically equivalent to moderating greenhouse gas concentrations.

What Willard doesn't understand is that even extreme mitigation measures such as replacing all future coal - fired power plants with nuclear will have an imperceptible impact on global average temperature by year 2100.

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.

Projected increases in average U.S. temperatures «could reduce U.S. economic growth by up to one - third over the next century,» according to a Richmond Fed paper.

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 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.

Summer temperatures, which can average in the mid 80's or the mid 90's during the day, are often cooled by afternoon ocean breezes blowing into the valley through gaps in the Santa Ana foothills to the west.

It was a «roller - coaster ride» of a growing year that ended with a long, likely below - average - sized harvest punctuated by record September temperatures and October wildfires...

According to one forecast the high temperature in Moscow tomorrow will be 62 degrees Fahrenheit, above zero that is, which by the law of averages nearly guarantees the high on Sunday will be at or near 62 degrees below zero.

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.

And not only is 98.6 º just an average starting point — any given individual's personal internal thermostat setting varies by around half a degree every day, with lower temperatures in the morning (before the body's furnace gets going) and warmer ones toward the end of the day (once you've had the engine running all morning and afternoon).

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.

By signing the «Under 2 MOU,» Cuomo committed New York to the global effort to keep the earth's average temperature from rising two degrees.

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»);

If temperatures return to more normal levels after two winters of abnormal warmth, the average heating bill across the Buffalo Niagara region is expected to jump by 26.5 percent — or about $ 123 — from last year's unusually affordable cost, according to National Fuel Gas Co..

More complicated feedback - response models that use a lumped feedback parameter suggest that the same doubling could cause average atmospheric temperatures to rise by less than 2 F °.

Because the sulfate haze reflects a portion of the sun's energy back into space, the average temperature on Earth's surface drops by as much as 0.5 or even 1 degree Celsius.

The researchers estimated that areas of the city could reduce average summertime temperatures by as much as 1.7 degrees C or more.