Sentences with phrase «few tenths of a degree»

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.

A detectable drop in planetary temperature — a few tenths of a degree — in 1964 followed.

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).

«Our results demonstrate that surface winds react to modest subtropical SST variations as small as a few tenths of a degree,» the authors write.

The Philippines» Mount Pinatubo, for example, cooled Earth by a few tenths of a degree Celsius for months after it blew its top in June 1991.

Cooling by a few tenths of a degree in Fig. 9 is a result mainly of the 100 GtC biospheric uptake of CO2 during 2030 — 2080.

A few tenths of a degree may not sound overwhelming, but in the world of climate statistics, computed from worldwide temperatures, this is yet another record - shattering figure.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

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.

If temperatures change just a few tenths of a degree then this oh - so - thin ice cap is doomed.

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».

«[W] e're talking of a few tenths of a degree change in temperature.

Indeed, it is a tiny fraction of the expense of the Kyoto Protocol, for example, which is expected to shave off just a few tenths of a degree of temperature rise over the next hundred years.

The paper suggests that a cooling impact of around «a few tenths of a degree» could be stopped suddenly without risking termination shock.

Schellnhuber similarly puts that number at a few tenths of a degree Celsius under this scenario.

«That global warming stopped 18 years ago and the warming of a few tenths of a degree between 1979 and 1997 shows no sign of being other than of natural origin is apparently unknown to the president.

Professor Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said, «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... proceeded to contemplate a roll - back of the industrial age».

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 exaggerated computer predictions combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

A 2016 study he coauthored stressed that sea levels rose as much as 30 feet in the late Eemian period, starting around 125,000 years ago, when peak temperatures were just a few tenths of a degree warmer than currently.

Extra UV would interact with ozone, raising stratosphere temperatures, but this would only raise the surface temperature at high latitudes by only a few tenths of a degree.

For example, the El Niño years 1983 and 1998 were a few tenths of a degree warmer, while 1992 — 93 following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo were a few tenths of a degree cooler, than the 20 - year average.

He shows that the Earth's temperature trend in this 800 year period never moves more than a few tenths of a degree C. Even during the Maunder minimum, where we know the sun was unusually quiet, global temperatures were dead stable.

Cooling by a few tenths of a degree in Fig. 9 is a result mainly of the 100 GtC biospheric uptake of CO2 during 2030 — 2080.

These guys think saying «climate changes», saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming.

Cooler but poorer is the name I and others put on a world that may be a few tenths of a degree cooler from less CO2, but certainly will be trillions of dollars poorer through expensive government mandates and restrictions on economic growth.