Sentences with phrase «degree of warming during»

Ridley: «My best guess would be about one degree of warming during this century, which is well within the IPCC's range of possible outcomes.»
«Seventeen of the 18 warmest years on record have all been during this century, and the degree of warming during the past three years has been exceptional.

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During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Overall, wines made in this sub-region feature unique, intensive aromas and flavors that are influenced during summer months by a combination of hot days and warm nights — usually 8 degrees warmer than Oakville.
During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.
New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2 - 2 degrees Celsius (2.2 - 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than summers were during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
But the warming that would result from adding such large amounts of carbon to the climate system would be much greater today than during the PETM and could reach up to 10 degrees.
In nearly every part of the continental United States winter lows were warmer during the second period, rising as much as 2.5 degrees (Fahrenheit) in parts of the Rockies, the northern Great Plains, and central and southern California.
Their results suggest a drop of as much as 10 degrees for fresh water during the warm season and 6 degrees for the atmosphere in the North Atlantic, giving further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked.
In response, lakebed temperatures of Arctic lakes less than 1 meter (3 feet) deep have warmed by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the past three decades, and during five of the last seven years, the mean annual lakebed temperature has been above freezing.
A Date with Destiny: 2036 Most scientists concur that two degrees C of warming above the temperature during preindustrial time would harm all sectors of civilization — food, water, health, land, national security, energy and economic prosperity.
Analyzing tens of thousands of data points, Schatz and Kucharik found the urban heat island effect peaked in summer, when downtown Madison averaged 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer at night and 3 degrees warmer during the day when compared to rural Dane County.
So, must have warmed by an average of 0.2 degrees - C per decade during the 19 years, (some during the 12 years 1957 to 1969 and some during the 6 years 2000 to 2006 or all 0.4 degrees - C total during one of those periods).
«Ocean temperatures rose substantially during that warming episode — as much as 7 to 9 degrees Celsius (about 12 to 16 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas of the North Atlantic.
New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2 — 2 degrees Celsius (2.2 — 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than summers were during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
This did not happen during the 1978 - 1998 period of 0.3 degrees Celsius warming.
Eating this way is also more appropriate in warmer climates, and during warm seasons, where animal foods aren't required to the same degree to maintain the natural heat of the body.
I bought this in March so I'm not sure how warm it will be during the sub-zero stretch of winter, but so far it's done great with 20 - 40 degree windy weather.
Never Leave Your Pet in the Car During warm weather, the inside of your car can reach 120 degrees in a matter of minutes, even if parked in the shade and with the windows partially open.
Pet owners should remember that the inside of a car can quickly reach 120 degrees in warm weather and should not leave their animals in the car, even during short trips.
During warm weather, the inside of a car can easily reach up to 120 degrees, even parked in the shade with the windows down.
Travel writer Raquel Pineira visits Cabo San Lucas in January and finds a welcoming warm climate with average highs of 75 - 80 degrees during the day.
Ocean temperatures are a warm 29 °C that is only 1 degree less than the highest of 30 °C seen during the hot months.
If you want to assume that aerosols resulting from pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels were responsible for the cooling evident from 1940 through the late 70's, then you have no reason to claim ANY degree of warming due to CO2 forcing during any earlier period.
The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long - term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large - scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming).
«Ocean temperatures rose substantially during that warming episode — as much as 7 to 9 degrees Celsius (about 12 to 16 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas of the North Atlantic.
In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.
I am very well aware and have previously blogged that there are multiple factors that determine the degree of ice lost any given year — but the literature is clear that even in 2007, global warming played «a large part» (see «What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?
However, these outcomes are predicated on changes in basal melt rates that could accompany global warming of only a few degrees, warming that could be determined by emissions that occur during the twenty - first century.
I would like to read a book about how the rate and degree of warming expected to take place over the next couple centuries compares with global warming episodes in Earth's past, and how today's plants and animals might not survive climate change and heat waves more severe than experienced during the climates in which their species evolved.
Following the conversion of cerrado grasslands into sugarcane in Brazil, a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters found local cooling that approached 1 degree Celsius during the growing season and maximum local warming near 1 degree Celsius post-harvest.
As far as I know, the Greenland ice core data says that the globe was a couple of degrees warmer not long ago, during the Holocene.
Willis Eschenbach December 14, 2012 at 12:54 am said:» As far as I know, the Greenland ice core data says that the globe was a couple of degrees warmer not long ago, during the Holocene»
In order to get catastrophic warming, like 5 degrees C / 100 yrs, you need.5 deg / decade — as much as occured during all of the 20th Century.
-LSB-...] After 300 years of global warming, during nearly all of which we could not on any view have influenced the climate to a measurable degree, it is scarcely surprising that recent decades will be warmer than earlier decades.
For example, during the «Holocene thermal maximum,» the warmest period of the past 10,000 years, the Arctic average temperature was two to three degrees warmer than it is today, while the global average was only a degree or so warmer.
If IPCC model predictions were relatively accurate, global warming should be occurring at a pace of approximately 0.15 degrees Celsius per decade during La Ninas and approximately 0.35 degrees Celsius per decade during El Ninos.
Examining the totality of the 35 - year temperature record, we see approximately 1/3 of 1 degree Celsius warming during the period.
The troposphere at 30 degrees latitude in both hemispheres — roughly the location of Austin, Texas and Cordoba, Argentina in the Americas — has warmed by about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit during that time.
During the past 40 years the average summer temperatures in this region of the north - east peninsula has been 2.2 degrees Celsius, but on days when warm winds top the mountains of the peninsula, temperatures rise by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius, the researchers said.
The U.S. state experiences one of its warmest winter periods on record during the second half of January, including some temperatures that ran 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) above average.
The 25 D - O events during the last glacial, where temperatures rose and fell by 5 to 10 degrees C (10 - 15 degrees C for Greenland) within a span of decades that were «explained by internal variability of the climate system alone ``, deemed global in scale, and they occurred without any changes in CO2 concentrations, which stayed steady at about 180 ppm throughout the warming and cooling.
During the 8.2 k global - scale cooling - warming event, temperatures dropped by multiple degrees and warmed back up again by multiple degrees within a span of just 150 years.
A Date with Destiny: 2036 Most scientists concur that two degrees C of warming above the temperature during preindustrial time would harm all sectors of civilization — food, water, health, land, national security, energy and economic prosperity.
New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2 — 2 degrees Celsius (2.2 — 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than summers were during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
New Statement: During the past 9 years most datasets indicate some degree of global warming taking place.
Actually, a warmer world means higher levels of humidity, less drought and a shrinking of deserts, as in the Sahara circa 4,000 - 6,000 years ago during the era known as the climatic optimum when temperatures averaged some 2 degrees higher than today's.
None of today's trends even approach the IPCC's predicted trend range of 2 to 6 degrees (C) per century that its «experts» and climate models told us long ago were being experienced (unfortunately, they mistook the natural climate's super El Niño's huge impact during 1997/98 as confirmation of CO2 - induced warming).
http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/greenland-ice-cores-reveal-warm-climate-of-the-past/ «The new results from the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.»
A given location on the equator of Venus cools by about 5 degrees during its 4 - month - long night, and so Venus could have cooled right down if the Sun were not shining during its daytime and warming the troposphere and the surface back up again by the same 5 degrees, or whatever it is.
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