Averaged over the entire planet, that means 2014 was likely the hottest year in the history of human civilization.
Not exact matches
«When you compute the
average reliability for the
entire catalogue of Kepler's
planet candidates, you're
averaging over all of the detectors,» she says.
The global temperature record represents an
average over the
entire surface of the
planet.
However a square metre is a miniscule portion of the surface of the
planet so that even a tiny increase or decrease in the heat being received on
average over each such tiny area translates into a huge change in total heat budget for the
entire planet.
Every cubic kilometre (1,000,000,000 cubic metres) is sufficient to drown the
entire human population of our
planet, allowing an
average of
over 130 litres per person [yes, rounded again].
What is actually relevant in figuring out how much the earth is going to absorb is
averaging the powers
over the
entire planet and what is relevant in figuring out how much it is going to radiate is
averaging the temperature
over the
entire surface (actually T ^ 4... or, most technically, the emissivity * T ^ 4 but the emissivity in the mid - and far - IR is very close to 1 for most surfaces).