Sentences with phrase «few degrees of warming»

You do realise that he recently claimed on the BBC that the IPCC was stating that the net effect of the next few degrees of warming was zero.

We're facing more immediate and serious threats than a hypothetical few degrees of warming in the second half of this century, and everyone but the cultists is starting to focus on that.

A few degrees of warming won't turn New York into a Miami - class shirtsleeves town.

I always enjoy visiting this delightful city, but you would probably get a solid vote there for a few degrees of warming.

Not exact matches

** These are best eaten while warm and fresh, but can be reheated gently for a few minutes at 350 degrees to get some of the «crisp» back.

We certainly didn't feel like braving the 10 degree New England air yesterday morning to hit up our favorite little place in town, Leo's, for breakfast but I'd say this was quite the perfect way to «make do» with a few pantry staples, settle down with a full warm plate in hand, watch the kitty sleep by the fire, and spend some time with the seed catalog dreaming of spring.

The afternoon was perfect, clear and cloudless and, at about 25 [degrees], plenty warm for a few hours of winter fun.

Fill the tub with about 3 inches of water that feels warm but not hot to the inside of your wrist — about 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or a few degrees warmer.

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

But Jones is not sure if Manley did as well at capturing slower changes, of a few tenths of a degree over decades, which is important for detecting the onset of warming due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Today this light, called the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, fills the sky with an almost uniform glow — almost, because some pockets of the sky are a few millionths of a degree warmer or colder than average.

Since the surface is a few tenths of a degree cooler than the water below, when a wave breaks, the warmer water beneath (orange and red) mixes with the cooler water above (blue and violet).

As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.

«I would say it is significant that temperatures of the most recent decade exceed the warmest temperatures of our reconstruction by 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit, having few — if any — precedents over the last 11,000 years,» Marsicek says.

With clouds forming in unpolluted air, the poles warmed up much more than the tropics, giving a climate within a few degrees of the one that actually existed.

But in warm - blooded species, which continuously regulate body temperature, the task is more difficult: The brain must be tricked into thinking the local temperature — which it senses through clues like blood flow — is too hot so that it lowers the body temperature a few fractions of a degree.

So personally, i wouldn't worry if there was some warming of a few degrees.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

A lot of times it will be colder in the morning and then warm up a few degrees, so an outfit like this is perfect.

Theron makes Marlo a difficult woman to warm to, Reitman underlines the exhausting horrors of a new baby to an alarming degree, and the few laughs here are modest ones.

Head 40 kilometres (25 miles) south to Augusta, where an unusual microclimate means the local weather is almost always a few degrees warmer than the rest of the region.

I could even use the data you supply to argue it the other way — that is, the two minima you compare seem quite different, yet both» 96 - ’97 and» 07 - ’08 are pretty hot periods globally, with 2007 for instance just a few hundredths of a degree warmer than ’97 in HadCRUT.

Scenarios for future global warming show tropical SST rising by a few degrees, not just tenths of a degree (see e.g. results from the Hadley Centre model and the implications for hurricanes shown in Fig. 1 above).

The details differ (mostly within the uncertainty bounds given by Mann et al, so the difference is not significant), but all published reconstructions share the same basic features: they show relatively warm medieval times, a cooling by a few tenths of a degree Celsius after that, and a rapid warming since the 19th Century.

See the GISP2 Ice core charts of temperature for the last 10,000 years -LRB-- data available at WDC) where it shows that the normal cooling and warming mode is for a rapid temperature change of 1.5 to 2 degrees within a few hundred years.

The first part of your description is certainly true, I don't think the magnitude of the recent warming in the Arctic (including Greenland) is extraordinary (yet, but ask me again is a few years) when properly set against the backdrop of the last century, but I do believe that, at least to some degree, the warming of the Arctic (including Greenland) in recent years has resulted from an anthropogenic enhancement to the world's greenhouse effect.

In fact, if humanity takes no action and this century will bring a temperature rise of 2 ºC, 3 ºC or even more, the current discussions over whether the 14th Century was a few tenths of a degree warmer or the 17th a few tenths cooler than previously thought will look rather academic.

There is a small but interesting literature looking for amplifiers that might allow tiny changes in the sun to cause larger changes in climate... However, the few tenths of a degree from such influences are very small compared to the possible warming if we burn most of the fossil fuels».

However, these outcomes are predicated on changes in basal melt rates that could accompany global warming of only a few degrees, warming that could be determined by emissions that occur during the twenty - first century.

There is no «proof» that these are more than natural occurrences (or, admittedly, neither that they are not) and require, for now, really contorted tortuous explanations (snow / ice getting covered with soot, Arctic really getting lots warmer than the few tenths of a degree of the global average just the past 2 - 3 decades, etc.) why AGW is causing them — though they are professed with religious conviction.

You might expect to see heat waves on the list — even though climate and weather are two different (but related) phenomena — but the report is a good reminder of the tremendous scope of problems a warming globe can cause; it's not just about an extra couple degrees and wearing fewer sweaters: «With warming temperatures, the breeding cycle of malaria - carrying mosquitoes is shortening, which means more mosquitoes — and malaria — each year.»

HOWEVER, when you apply the laws of physics to the new end state, ie globe warmed by a few degrees by GHGs, you get a situation where the new Wiens law value (higher driving temperature gives hotter energy spectrum out) and the new Stefan - Boltzmann value, (ie HIGHER energy out) disagree with the physical situation that the model REQUIRES — ie energy out = 99.98 units which is LOWER.

Another, possibly best case scenario, shows that if global warming did not exceed the 2 degree Celsius benchmark, the millennial sea - level rise from the melting of Antarctic ice could likely be restricted to a few meters.

A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate.

While momentum builds that a REDD agreement may be one of the few positive Copenhagen outcomes to limit global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, without forest protection as its key priority, those hopes will be shattered.

«Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll - back of the industrial age,» Lindzen was quoted, offering praise for Christopher C. Horner's Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.

Using «best bet» forcing estimates, early reductions in sulphates can accelerate warming by a few points of a degree.

I would say it is significant that temperatures of the most recent decade exceed the warmest temperatures of our reconstruction by 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit, having few — if any — precedents over the last 11,000 years.

Therefore warming of the oceans by a degree or two has little influence on the balance (it's compensated by a addition of a few ppm in the atmospheric concentration).

Four degrees of warming could raise global sea levels by 1 or possibly even 2 meters by 2100 (and would lock in at least a few additional meters over future centuries).

And, as you say, all the purported warming would only increase ocean temperature by an indiscernible few thousandths of a degree.

The background is already a degree warmer, with maybe a few degrees more this century, so the next of those events will be worse, and infrastructure needs to be better than that.

4) Surface temperatures north of latitude 60 degrees are warming at an accelerated rate in the past few decades.

It is important to note that differences in the rankings of the warmest years are a matter of only a few hundredths of a degree, and that different data sets show slightly different rankings.

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

«Some or all of these processes will be enough, Lovelock estimates, to tip the earth into a catastrophic hotter state, perhaps about eight degrees centigrade warmer in temperate regions like ours, over the course of a very few decades, and that heat will in turn make life as we know it nearly impossible in many places.

Greenhouse gases will cause a progressive warming of another few degrees.

-- Ocean warming is being reported in the tiniest units possible (joules)-- a unit that means nothing to the general public, but sounds «big» (because there's a bunch of them); if it were reported in degrees C (which people can relate to), the warming would be a few thousandths of a degree per year

In the absence of any troposphere warming, what are the effects of a warming of a few hundreths of a degree of the oceans?