Sentences with phrase «degrees of warming on»

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The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

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.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

If you're making a large batch and need to keep the pancakes warm, preheat the oven to 200F degrees then place a wire rack on top of a baking sheet.

If your house stays on the warmer side most of the year (like 72 + degrees F), then shea butter might be a better option.

Directions: Saute chopped leeks and garlic in butter, medium low heat, until very soft — 10 — 15 minutes / Add 1 t fresh thyme if you have it / Mix milk and egg together with salt & pepper / When tart shell is done and slightly cooled, sprinkle one half of the cheese on the bottom / Spread cooked leeks over cheese, pour egg milk mixture over the leeks / Sprinkle top with remaining cheese / Bake in a 375 degree oven until egg is barely set and tart is lightly golden — 15 — 20 minutes, longer for a larger pan with more filling / Remove from oven, lift out of tart pan base, place on a rack to cool a bit / Serve while warm / Swoon.

When a good smoke develops, place the chops on the cooking grate, lower the cover and smoke - cook the chops about 1 to 1 1/2 hours or to an internal temperature of 155 degrees F. Remove chops from smoker, tent with aluminum foil and keep warm until service.

Depending on the type of chocolate you use (particularly with dairy free chocolate), you may need to add a little bit of dairy free margarine (or butter) to the melted chips — you want the chocolate to flow easily when warmed to about 89 degrees, but still able to set when at room temperature.

The race weekend starts off promising on Friday with a mix of sunshine and clouds and warm afternoon temperatures near 80 degrees.

So, if you can warm up your breast (and the pump flanges on it) enough to simulate the warmth of a baby's mouth (think 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit), you may be able to increase your pumping output and efficiency.

Ghana is located on the Gulf of Guinea, only a few degrees north of the Equator, therefore giving it a warm climate.

Jing Helmersson shows in her doctoral dissertation that if climate change is held within the framework of the Paris agreement on a maximum of two degrees of warming, the Aedes aegypti mosquito will only be provided the potential to spread in southern small regions of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

Despite all these variables, scientists from Svante Arrhenius to those on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have noted that doubling preindustrial concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere from 280 parts per million (ppm) would likely result in a world with average temperatures roughly 3 degrees C warmer.

Evidence for these rapid warming events, on the order of 10 degrees Celsius in just 30 or so years, has shown up in the Greenland ice core, said Kim Cobb, the paper's second author.

«It is striking to see how a seemingly small warming of only 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit can have such a large impact on melt rates in west Greenland,» said Graeter.

The project's chief engineers counted on cooling sticks and other tricks to help the rails withstand soil warming of 0.2 degree C and air warming of 2 degrees C on the plateau over the next 50 years.

(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.

They suggested this based on paleoclimate data from the Eemian period, when one degree of warming seems to have done just that.

When [T] he peninsula is [has] warmed by [an] average of 5 to 9 degrees in the last 50 years, more than anywhere else on the planet — Fahrenheit.

Every 2 years on average, they found, the stratosphere suddenly warms by several tens of degrees Celsius.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

If all the brewery's CO2 could be stored in this way, the ethanol could become a biofuel to burn, one that actually reduces the amount of CO2 in the air and that seems to be one of the last hopes on offer to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

That will depend in large part on the success of the international climate agreement adopted in Paris in December, which calls for keeping warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — through an array of individual fossil fuel reduction targets.

On average, the 235 lakes in the study warmed at a rate of 0.34 degrees Celsius per decade between 1985 and 2009.

«If we have five to six degrees of warming in the next centuries, evaporation on the oceans may turn the Sahara into a savanna, as it was 10,000 years ago.»

Scientists have warned cuts on this scale are necessary to meet the aim of curtailing warming below two degrees.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

If the water temperature off the West Coast rises 2 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years as expected, the Mediterranean mussel «takes over most of the West Coast, simply based on its ability to attach well under these warming conditions.»

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

Warming of 3 to 4 degrees C (as much as 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F), projected by NOAA GFDL's CM2.6, will likely cause more extreme effects on the ecosystem.

The temperature ranges from 5 to 15 degrees F. «It is the banana belt of Antarctica,» Tulaczyk had assured me months before our trip, but I still sleep with my laptop computer to keep its electronics from going haywire in the cold, and I must warm the icy object on my bare belly so it will start up.

Ice shells of icy satellites can have warm interiors — approximately 0 degrees C — but surface temperatures as low as -200 degrees C -LRB--330 F), like on Saturn's moon Enceladus, though the team's apparatus does not reach that extremely low temperature.

They argue that there is something wrong with a world in which carbon - dioxide levels are kept to 450 parts per million (a trajectory widely deemed compatible with a 2 degree cap on warming) but at the same time more than a billion of the poorest people are left without electricity, as in one much discussed scenario from the International Energy Agency.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

Much of the focus of these side events has been on ways to ratchet up ambition, either through more private - sector engagement or through an emphasis on gaining more traction for a long - term goal of containing warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius below preindustrial levels, rather than the «well below 2» threshold enshrined in Paris.

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that cutting back on methane and soot emissions alone could prevent 0.7 degree Celsius of additional warming by 2040 — and those cooling benefits could come faster than comparable cuts in CO2.

His comments came after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found last week that within two or three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2 degrees, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and extreme weather.

Zachos... is a leading expert on the episode of global warming known as the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), when global temperatures shot up by 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit).

Like the 71 - degree Fahrenheit day in Boston on February 24, which set the record for the warmest day for that city for the month of February.

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.

The open ocean around the atoll was 2 degrees Celsius warmer than usual, but a short - term change in weather conditions pushed temperatures on top of the reef to 6 degrees Celsius above normal.

Pages 12 - 13 ignore all this and instead use «a constant - rate warming» of 1.8 degrees C per century «based on actual observations.»

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

The most widely accepted threshold is two degrees of warming relative to pre-industrial times — this is the limit recommended by the UK's Committee on Climate Change, for example.

To limit warming to 1.5 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 20 % for every tenth of a degree of warming.