Sentences with phrase «decade of warming»

There are already several decades of warming in the pipeline.

On average, the 8.3 C implies about 0.9 C per decade of warming.

Two decades of cool weather, followed by almost 2 decades of warm weather.

SO now we know that they got the 2 decades of warming right as there is no confirmed warming since then.

That could be a fatal shock to animals and plants already stressed by decades of warming.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

A past study that Kravitz helped run at GeoMIP found that the abrupt termination of radiative forcing would cause global warming to effectively speed up to make up for all the time it lost, cramming five decades of warming into five or 10 years (ClimateWire, Nov. 27).

The fuss began when studies showed that decades of warming appeared to have leveled off in 1998.

Tamino provides a nice simple graphic showing that global temperature remains within the projected range based on previous decades of warming:

The Farm Bureau does not share the scientific opinion on climate change, with its official position being that «there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment of the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming or how they will affect future climate changes.»

Even if the natural variation in temperatures caused by the AMO is the only factor affecting temperatures in the western U.S., that region is set for several decades of warmer, drier conditions, according to Swetnam's paper, published online December 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

we have had (these last decades of warming) is more than 50 % attributable to human activity.

And during the earlier decades of warming, which he mentions, we know that temperatures around the Arctic were at similar levels to today.

My interpretation from the news article is that he concludes that low clouds can exhibit a lower albedo than sometimes modeled, but then an important question is how low cloud cover is changing over recent decades of warming.

The current hiatus will probably be followed by rapid warming as heat escapes the ocean, so we are unlikely to get another decade of no warming before 2030.

My guess is this trend will spread, given that it's long been understood that, whatever happens with climate and energy policy, scientists say the world is committed to decades of warming, with more intense summer heat waves, under nearly all projections for climate change under a building blanket of greenhouse gases.

But no matter how much mitigation we do we're committed to decades of warming — of floods, storms, desertification, species loss and drought — thanks to past emissions and inertia in the climate system.

Then following a decade of warming, temperatures have since been statistically flat over the past nearly two decades.

In 1910, the synchronisation was followed by a warmer regime and several decades of warming.

All this talk of natural variability follows a decade of no warming, and subsequent to a variety of claims that we have been about to experience warmer and warmer weather, which have been contradicted later by revised projections, and climate reality, as we reported on Monday.

The U.S. heat wave of 1936 was similarly high, came near the end of two decades of warming, but temperatures starting falling shortly thereafter.

The major global temperature measurement systems tell — broadly speaking — the same story since the late 1970s: two decades of warming, followed by a pause.