Sentences with phrase «degrees per decade figure»
So where does the 0.2 degree per decade figure come from?
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By taking the estimate of 0.1 degrees C per decade and multiplying by 5 to get 0.5 degrees C, or 44 %, Geoffry Smith gets a rather larger figure for his urban heat island effect estimate than he would from the more direct subtraction of 0.81 from 1.13 (0.32 degrees C, or 38 %).
It is true that, figuring from 1997 to the present, the warming trend is very small — .013 degrees C per decade, according to the woodfortrees website, which provides tools for anyone to perform a variety of climate - related analyses for themselves.
«Back [in 2007], [the IPCC] said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius every decade... But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12 Celsius per decade - a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction»
«The 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade figure relates to an observed warming over the period 1990 - 2005 which clearly can not be compared with the period since 1951».