Sentences with phrase «far the warmest decade»

The last decade is by far the warmest decade globally in the record.

Not exact matches

DIRT POOR Soils will absorb far less climate - warming carbon in coming decades than previously thought, worsening global warming, a new study shows.

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

These changes have been compounded by stronger waves in the North Sea in recent decades, and could be further exacerbated if predictions that storminess will increase with global warming prove accurate.

Instead, they join other East Coast turtles in warmer waters farther south, where they spend a decade or so maturing before returning to nest on their home beaches in Texas and Mexico.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols had been kept constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming of about 0.1 °C per decade would be expected.

Thus it appears that, provided further satellite cloud data confirms the cosmic ray flux low cloud seeding hypothesis, and no other factors were involved over the past 150 years (e.g., variability of other cloud layers) then there is a potential for solar activity induced changes in cloudiness and irradiance to account for a significant part of the global warming experienced during the 20th century, with the possible exception of the last two decades.

Further, since you agree with us that the warming rate during the next several decades will be below 0.325 ºC / decade, then, as I have pointed out, due to the level of natural variability, a 20 - yr time period is too short to really differentiate between your beliefs and ours (if there exist any).

Those claims were based on the fact that 1998 was by far the warmest year in the warmest decade in the instrumental record, but without direct evidence that other very warm years in perhaps not quite as warm decades did not match or exceed it.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

Thus, we can conclude that both a natural cycle (the AMO) and anthropogenic forcing could have made roughly equally large contributions to the warming of the tropical Atlantic over the past decades, with an exact attribution impossible so far.

All they tell us is that if there is no further warming for 40 years, and Arctic temperatures remain largely at or below today's values for another four whole decades, then we won't lose the Arctic summer ice.

Building cities along coastlines as we have throughout our so - far short modern history, short though it has been from the standpoint of our climate history, should be recognized as the kind of short term planning that has gotten us into this trouble whether it happens now or a few decades or centuries down the road, and this concern over atmoshperic warming is just one of a multitude of possible planet - affecting scenarios that could have devastating effects on our world's societies.

I also agree that model predictions of 0.2 C surface warming per decade were clearly inaccurate, but on the larger question of climate trends, they were probably not very far off.

I also pointed you to data for Arctic temperature which shows that it has warmed considerably over just the last decade, so that presently the Arctic is far warmer than it ever was in the 20th century.

Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols had been kept constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming of about 0.1 °C per decade would be expected.

The talk (about an hour on video) is the best talk I've heard, by far, regarding the history of the science of global warming, going back decades and including some great information and quotes.

Some highlights: Over part of the past year, the Pacific was in its cyclical cool phase, called La Niña; the Arctic remained far warmer than usual for recent decades.

That was a very extreme signal — far outside the previous variation — yet its also rather hard to fit into std GW theory, because it would be extreme even under warming to be expected in the next few decades (I think).

«Expect global cooling for the next 2 - 3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been» By Marc Morano A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun.

As emissions continue to increase, both warming and the commitment to future warming are presently increasing at a rate of approximately 0.2 °C per decade, with projections that the rate of warming will further increase if emission controls are not put in place.

Even if the concentrations of all GHGs and aerosols had been kept constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming of about casino 0.1 °C per decade would be expected.

Of course, the full extent of the warming caused by this doubling will not be immediately felt, as it will take further decades for the Earth to settle into a new equilibrium.

And warming of 4 C (7.2 F) would lead to far warmer summers; about nine out of 10 summers would be warmer than the warmest ever experienced during the last decades of the 20th century over nearly all land areas.

The authors warn that further warming will increase fire exponentially in coming decades.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

2) IPCC: «Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols had been kept constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming of about 0.1 °C per decade would be expected.»

If our climate continues to warm at today's rate, scientists expect North Sea plankton that respond to temperature cues to bloom even earlier in the coming decades.7 With a growing mismatch in life cycles among various species of plankton, as well as further climate - induced shifts in their abundance and distribution, effects on the North Sea ecosystem — including cod — are projected to be considerable.7, 8

Those measurements showed that August — far from being the warmest — was actually the coldest in five years and the second coldest over the last decade.

Berlin (AFP)-- Dismissed a decade ago as far - fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debate towards centre stage.

What NASA failed to mention, though, was far more important: The agency's own satellite temperature data for last year show that 2014 was only the sixth warmest since NASA» Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) satellites went up less than four decades ago.

So far, the empirical research, also known as observations, supports the theory of AGW for the warming over the decades.

It is also worth noting that the use of both modes of Geo - E in a Troika strategy can not entirely guarantee a benign outcome, however long the R&D period, since we have no firm information on how large the response the Methane Hydrates Melt feedback will be to the sum of ocean warming that is already penetrating the seabed plus that from the several decades of further warming as the natural sea temperatures are slowly restored.

The rift has existed for decades and further proof that warming is causing the separation is necessary, according to them.

The fact that the OHC is rising decade on decade means we have an imbalance and all the warming so far has not been enough for the forcing change that is dominated by the GHG increase.

No doubt that is why, although the models predicted that global warming would accelerate during the first decade of the 21st century, so far this century there has been no recorded global warming at all.

A flurry of recent research strongly suggests that recent observations like these are indeed linked to California's long - term warming trend — and that snowpack losses are expected to accelerate further over the next few decades.

The BBC are quite biased so far as global warming is concerned but almost every week there is one documentary or another on gardening or archaeology in which they drop in evidence which to the common man says that we must have had periods when it warmed as much and as quickly as recent decades.

The balance of evidence remains, however, strongly on the side of the expectation of further warming in the coming decades.

«Below the sea surface, historical measurements of temperature are far sparser, and the warming is more gradual, about 0.01 °C per decade at 1,000 meters.»

In short, as far as Jones knew in February 2010 - and as the keeper of the Hadley - CRU surface temperature record he was surely in a very good position to know - the planet hadn't warmed on average over the decade.

Further, the probabilistic approach reveals a picture startling to even most global - warming pessimists: If we're to avoid precipitating what that U.N. Framework Convention genteelly calls «dangerous anthropogenic interference,» we're going to have to aim at an atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentration target that, by current trends, we'll reach in less than two decades.

This would further confound attempts to assess their contribution to temperature change during intervals when their net deviation from their baseline levels was large, although it would have less significance for the post-1950 decades when their net contribution would be small even as independent sources of warming.

Although it is far less abundant than carbon dioxide and stays in the air for only a decade or so, molecule for molecule its warming effect (calculated over 100 years) is 25 times higher.

And the view that the climate has not warmed for over a decade and a half is no longer controversial — only people assembled at the Guardian argue otherwise, albeit they argue the point with (far too much) vehemence.

The last decade was the warmest on record so far.

If so, that makes each site moss has been exposed by retreating ice into a «thermometer» that reports current temperature of recent decades on an unusual scale — years before present (ybp and further back means warmer).

To put that in perspective, we're currently warming around 0.2 C / decade, which far surpasses historical climate changes like the Ice Ages.

And there is very real risk that the next few decades could see considerable further acceleration of Antarctica's glaciers as a result of human - forced warming due to fossil fuel burning.