Sentences with phrase «climate during most of these years»

Although this range is no more than what most of us experience in the course of a year's time going from summer to winter, UNEP refers to these temperature changes as «very significant» and to the Earth's climate during most of these years as «unstable.»

Not exact matches

The peninsula has an ideal climate, with sunny days throughout most of the year and average temperatures ranging from 15 ° C (59 ° F) in the winter and 30 ° C (86 ° F) during the summer.

The capital hasn't exactly had the most hospitable climate for Mr. de Blasio during the first years of his tenure.

New research could explain why the Arctic was much warmer during a period millions of years ago that scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate today

During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate change mention population growth as a complicating factor.

The Netherlands» temperate maritime climate isn't given to extremes of temperature; summers are warm and winters are mild and whilst rainfall is relatively evenly spread throughout the year it is most common in late summer during July and August.

The city enjoys a typical tropical climate, with daytime temperatures of about 30 degrees for most of the year, falling to around 25 degrees during the monsoon season (from May to early September).

After years of escaping the British winter months for warmer climates, either on surf trips, or to work as a surf coach, I decided that this was the year I was going to stay at home and start pursuing my interests in computer technology in the form of university, although I'm studying hard I'm having a great time combining both of my passions during term time, I cant wait for the summer to begin and really make the most of what Cornwall has to offer.

Queenslands climate accommodates a sunny mostly warm holiday destination for most of the year, and Tropical North Queensland especially warm during the summer months.

In contrast, the warming during the most recent period, often used as evidence of human induced climate change, is characterized by temperature moderation — the pattern of temperature rise exhibits a strong, preferential warming of the coldest days of the year.

Presumably most of AR4 will consist of a large number of small refinements to TAR, but I am wondering if someone here can comment on whether there have been any significant discoveries or surprises in climate science during the last several years that we might expect to be included in the new report.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary Abstract The time span of the past few million years has been punctuated by many rapid climate transitions, most of them on time scales of centuries to decades or even less.

Much warmer times have also occurred in climate history — during most of the past 500 million years, Earth was probably completely free of ice sheets (geologists can tell from the marks ice leaves on rock), unlike today, when Greenland and Antarctica are ice - covered.

The implication is that the inclusion of the unaccounted data will support «climate deniers» position that in fact cooling has occurred during the most recent 15 years.

There was plenty of bold climate leadership during the UN climate talks this year — and it came from those most impacted by the climate crisis and local leaders.

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

During the next 20 years, the US continued to block a meaningful global solution to climate change while being one of only a handful of nations that did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty in which most developed countries accepted a ghg reduction target.

Headlines like «2014: The Most Dishonest Year on Record» have been posted on climate skeptic blogs, such as Watts Up With That, and a commentator for the popular British newspaper The Daily Mail all but accused NASA of lying to the press and the public about global temperatures, despite the open discussion of uncertainties both in NASA's press materials and during a press conference with audio that is publicly accessible.

Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, with state - wide average annual air temperature increasing by 3 °F and average winter temperature by 6 °F, with substantial year - to - year and regional variability.1 Most of the warming occurred around 1976 during a shift in a long - lived climate pattern (the Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO]-RRB- from a cooler pattern to a warmer one.

It revealed that starvation and predation were the most common and consistent chick killers over the years, but that hypothermia was the leading cause of death during years with heavy rainstorms, which became more prevalent throughout the study period — a trend that is consistent with climate models projecting the effects of climate change in the region.

«In 50 years of Arctic reconstructions, the current warming event is both the most intense and one of the longest - lived warming events ever observed during winter,» said Robert Rohde, lead scientist of Berkeley Earth, a non-profit organisation dedicated to climate science.

It is not because most climate scientists do not share your level of scepticism, and are probably more focused on the detailed observations of forcings during the climate model era (the last 30 - odd years).

Hansen said «The single most pertinent number emerging from Cenozoic climate studies is the level of atmospheric CO2 at which ice sheets began to form as the planet cooled during the past 50 million years.

Summary of Part 2: Roy Spencer repeatedly claims that most of the rest of the climate science community deliberately ignores natural sources of climate variation, but then contradicts himself by launching an inept attack on the standard explanation for climate change during the glacial - interglacial cycles of the last million years (i.e., they are initiated by Milankovitch cycles).

Gradual changes in Earth's climate of this kind have been frequent during the Earth's 4500 million year existence and most often are attributed to changes in the configuration of continents and ocean sea ways.

As another data point opposing that notion of fear based funding, I would note that during the time of James Hansen's most vocal and dire warnings about climate catastophies in our future over the last 5 or 6 years he has experienced gov» t intimidation and suppression, NASA has seen its earth sciences budget shrink significantly and NASA has changed its mission statement to no longer include «protect our home planet».

As for sea level rise: we see 30 years of steep global temperature rise during a time when, according to Spencer Weart, whose views on this matter are shared by most if not all climate scientists, «the temperature rise up to 1940 was... mainly caused by some kind of natural cyclical effect, not by the still relatively low CO2 emissions...» (from «The Discovery of Global Warming,» by Spencer Weart — https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm)

Earth's climate during the past 10,000 years has likely been the most stable in the history of our planet.