Sentences with phrase «degrees warmer»

There was the keynote address by Sir Robert Watson, who explored the implications of our current emissions path, and the fact that we are likely heading for a world that is 4 or 5 degrees warmer by 2100 than it was before industrialisation, with consequences that are alarming rather than alarmist.

Even in winter, rooftop temperatures can be tens of degrees warmer than local air temperatures.

Now when pressed to provide anything other than generalities you appeal to some unnamed authorities that it couldn't possibly have been 5 degrees warmer in the past and point us to «the literature» which you claim has been dismissed.

«To put it in context: I tell people to imagine what if Los Angeles was 60 [F] degrees warmer than it was supposed to be — because Fort Yukon is 60 degrees warmer than it's supposed to be.

earlier in the day from 13:30 onwards, my 2 dataloggers tracked each other and were reading 3 degrees warmer than Brampton, yet after 16:30, they were reading anything up to 4 degrees colder (degrees centigrade) I have seen them do strange things, but not both at the same time.

In the Eemian Greenland was about 5 degrees warmer than today, considerably above Gregory's threshold, but there was still an ice sheet present (although probably about half its present volume) and it remained in place for 20,000 years.

«And not like the polar bears are disappearing, it's not like the polar bears can't survive if it's two degrees warmer, whatever people are saying.

Minneapolis, Kansas was 119 degrees, 32 degrees warmer than their forecast maximum today of 87 degrees.

During the night when the sun does not shine, the earth surface is perhaps ten degrees warmer than the atmosphere.

The Medieval Warming from 800 AD to 1300 AD Micheal Mann erased to make his «hockey stick» was several degrees warmer than anything «global warmers» fear.

The earliest the Holocene Max lasted over 3000 years with average temperatures as high as two degrees warmer than today.

I think the decade 2011 - 2020 will be more than 0.15 degrees warmer than 2001 - 2010 which was a soft target with a long solar minimum to end it.

According to the IPCC and its computer models, without enormous emission cuts the world is set to get between two and six degrees warmer during the 21st Century, with catastrophic consequences.

It increases monotonically [without reversal], achieving values three and a half degrees warmer by the end of the twenty - first century.

At best, the doubling of CO2 = 1.2 degrees warmer statement is a working assumption, at worst pseudoscientific fluff.

During the extended cold snap, parts of the western U.S. were between eight to 10 degrees warmer than average while the east went into a deep freeze.

If you go back before the ice ages, the earth was ice free and a couple of degrees warmer than today.

During the last three such warm (interglacial) periods, temperatures at high latitudes were as much as 5 degrees warmer than today's.

This is nice and fine in paper but if you look at the text, what has been pledged last week will take us to a more than 3 degrees warmer world.

Out here in the «burbs, 10 miles from the airport, the temperature is regularly 5 to 10 degrees warmer than the reported temperatures when the wind is blowing from the east.

The clams existed in a climate that was at least 10 degrees warmer than modern temperatures.

That many degrees warmer... We are going to have a bad time.

«A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air.

17 November 2016... The Washington Post (Quoted): The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends

Adjust lambda to Hansen values and co2 forcing would have us degrees warmer.

# 24 «If CO2 emissions continue on their current trends, earth is on course to be 2.6 - 4.8 C (4.7 - 8.6 F) degrees warmer and the oceans could be up to a meter higher by the end of this century.

Normally it varies between 1 % and 4 % so that would be 10 degrees of warming for a dry desert region with 1 % and 40 degrees of warming for a moist rain forest region with 4 % water vapour, thus making the rain forest 30 degrees warmer than the dry desert at a similar latitude and altitude.

By the time we are both long gone it'll be 2 degrees warmer.

That has led to autumn temperatures in the last several years that are six to 10 degrees warmer than they were in the 1980s, said research scientist Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo..»

And I'm worried that if governments keep saying what they're doing is organized at stopping warming at 2 - degrees, then the people who are actually on the front lines of climate change — coastal cities, farmers and so on — are going to think about preparing for a world that's 2 degrees warmer, when in reality the evidence seem to suggest they should be preparing for a world that [has warmed] a lot more than 2 degrees.

If we were to burn every scrap of hydrocarbons ever produced, we would expect the temperature to return to previous levels - about 6 degrees warmer.

The Vostok ice core record suggests CO2 levels have not been this high in the last 800,000 years, but if Salby is right, and temperature controls CO2, then CO2 levels ought to have been higher say, 130,000 years ago when the world was 2 — 4 degrees warmer than it is now.

Jim D, if one place has a 3 - sigma summer several degrees warmer than average, it must mean that another place or places are cooler, or the same place is cooler some other time of the year, if the global average has only increased by a fraction of a degree.

The Climactic Optimum, 4000 years ago was 3 to 4 F degrees warmer than it is now (One of the big curves on the curve) and that was paradise not disaster.

«The IPCC... thinks the world will be between about 1.5 and 4 degrees warmer..., from marginally beneficial to terrifyingly harmful, so it is hardly a consensus of danger...»

Our best scientific data has determined Arctic temperatures between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago were a few degrees warmer than today, eliminating remnant glaciers and minimizing Arctic sea ice.

Globally the Eemian was warmer and moister — NH 5 degrees warmer according to Greenland ice cores, and 2 - 3 degrees warmer from Vostock ice cores.

Back when the coal beds were laid down the world was 5 - 6 degrees warmer, and CO2 levels were 1500 - 2000ppm.

«He must get upper troposphere where the temperature is seven degrees warmer for a doubl [ing of] CO2.

Jim D, you said yourself that a 3 - sigma summer «would be several degrees warmer than the base - period average».

Barrow Alaska, for example, was 7 degrees warmer in October of 1911 than in 2015.

«The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today — which is what we expect later this century — sea levels were 25m higher.

In time we'll get tired of this station and that being too polluted, sometimes reading several degrees warmer... so they'll be moved outside the city.

«The earth — traditionally, except for the Ice Age — has been warmer than it is now,» he says, «and the plants that we depend on for food evolved on a planet that was several degrees warmer than it is today.»

The high - end IPCC estimate, remember, is two degrees warmer still.

50 million years ago the deep oceans were ~ 14 WHOLE degrees warmer than today.

«But based on lake sediments from Baffin Island, our data show that this area of the Arctic experienced temperatures five degrees warmer than today,» said Briner.

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.

We had a hundred and ten inches of snow in Boston last year with measurements of water 21 degrees warmer than normal off the coast of Massachusetts.

As the Earth warms and sea level rises, it is inundated with seawater, which is 12 - 15 degrees warmer than the average air temperature.