Sentences with phrase «comparing decadal rates»

We are comparing decadal rates with at least an order of magnitude centennial rates.

Not exact matches

The first link refers to annual increases (comparing the last three years) whereas the second refers to decadal rates of increase (comparing the last decade against the 1960s).

The rate of increase (i.e. change in temperature per year) is increasing, so maybe the best way to tell is by comparing decadal changes.

Holgate 2007 showed decadal swings from -1 mm / year to +5 mm / year, so the present decadal rates are not at all unusual compared to the 20thC.

«stratospheric water vapor probably increased between 1980 and 2000, which would have enhanced the decadal rate of surface warming during the 1990s by about 30 % as compared to estimates neglecting this change.

Comparing the last two decadal trends shown above, what is your conclusion regarding the warming rates?

I hope that we may well be nearing the brink of having within humanity's grasp, not only strong inferences about the recent, relative decadal reduction in the rate of surface warming (compared with the final quarter of Century 20), but also with a more compelling story about the true pause which stretched across the middle of that century.