Sentences with phrase «degree per decade»

Even some that were nearly side by side warmed at different rates from one another — Lake Superior, by far the largest of the Great Lakes, is warming much more rapidly, at a full degree per decade, than others in the chain, although Huron and Michigan are also warming fast.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s recent report said the rate of warming over the past 15 years has been 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade — quite a bit smaller than the 0.12 degrees per decade calculated since 1951.
For instance, H = «If current CO2 emissions continue at their present rate» and D = «Global temps will rise by X degrees per decade»
However, including other greenhouse gases and taking into account a «thermal shrinking» of the upper atmosphere result in a cooling of a few degrees per decade.
Also, Allen told me, «I have asked him three times whether he understood when writing the article that the 0.2 degrees per decade figure in AR4 did not refer to the period since 1951, and he has declined to say.»
Erie is warming one - tenth as fast as Superior, just 0.1 degrees per decade.
It has been warming relatively slowly, about 0.2 degrees per decade.
In fact, in our preliminary analysis the good stations report more warming in the U.S. than the poor stations by 0.009 ± 0.009 degrees per decade, opposite to what might be expected, but also consistent with zero.
«In late summers the temperature on the seafloor has risen by an average of 0.4 degrees per decade.
«However this change is particularly marked in the most recent period (1970 to 2013), when maximum temperature rose by over half a degree per decade (0.57 °C per decade),» said Núria Pérez - Zanón, the lead author of the study.
This is almost exactly in line with the model average of 0.088 degrees per decade.
Their mid-troposphere temperatures show very little trend from the start of the record (0.05 degrees per decade).
0.02 degrees per decade.
Adding the trend correction by 0.08 degrees per decade from Cowtan & Way to our ENSO - adjusted HadCRUT trend from 1998, you end up at about 0.2 degrees per decade, practically the same value as we got for the GISS data.
For CAGW to be «catastrophic» or largely irrelevant, the questions of parts of a degree per decade count.
This is a considerable increase, and it is in line with the expectation that the temperature will rise by 0.18 degrees per decade.
Since then, says the Met Office, the trend has been a much lower 0.03 degrees per decade.
Karl's paper says that from 2000 - 2014, the 15 - year period that includes the 11 years for which we have ARGO data, the surface warming rate was equivalent to 0.116 degrees per decade — more or less exactly five times the measured ocean warming rate....
Between 1980 and the end of 1996, the planet warmed at a rate close to 0.2 degrees per decade.
These both show a trend of about +0.1 degree per decade.
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