Sentences with phrase «distinct periods of warming»

In fact the past century has witnessed two distinct periods of warming and cooling.

Distinct periods of warming and cooling in the SSTs were used to evaluate feedbacks.

Not exact matches

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

The exhibition features a group of new small paintings as elusive and distinct as petrichor — that pleasant smell which accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

The annual temperature history of the United States during the 20th century shows three distinct periods of change: warming from 1900 until about 1940, cooling from 1940 to 1969, and warming from 1970 to the present.

SAT observations and model simulations indicate that the nature of the arctic warming in the last two decades is distinct from the early twentieth - century warm period.

All of the studies we analysed reported at least three distinct climatic periods over the last millennium — two warm periods (the «Medieval Warm Period» and the «Current Warm Period») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age&raquwarm periods (the «Medieval Warm Period» and the «Current Warm Period») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age&raquWarm Period» and the «Current Warm Period») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age&raPeriod» and the «Current Warm Period») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age&raquWarm Period») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age&raPeriod») and an intervening cool period (the «Little Ice Age&raperiod (the «Little Ice Age»).

Just that plus 0.8 C over that period - with several clearly distinct ups and down in the graph - including crucially the ongoing 16 year flat lining is not a reason to jump out the window screaming nor change the socio economic make up of the world to stop «catastrophic man - made global warming».

On his Web log, climateaudit.org, on Thursday, Mr. McIntyre said the panel's report seemed to have «two completely distinct personalities,» upholding specific criticisms of Dr. Mann's methods, but still positing it was plausible that recent warming exceeded any warm periods for 1,000 years.

Climates of each of these greenhouse periods were distinct; continental positions and ocean bathymetry were very different, and terrestrial vegetation was absent from the continents until relatively late in the Paleozoic warm period.

Further, with mean temperatures across Australia generally well above average since September 2012, long periods of warmer - than - average days have been common, with a distinct lack of cold weather, the statement says.