Sentences with phrase «flat mean global temperatures»

EPA's latest climate alarm - premised war on coal assault calls for states to cut CO2 emissions by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030 despite satellite - recorded flat mean global temperatures over the past 18 years and counting.

Not exact matches

This more - or-less corresponds to the flat spot in the global - mean temperature series.

Given the decadal averages and the issue of what is meant by «the next» decade, Romm does have a point that the result of the paper could more clearly be described as representing «a period of flat global mean temperatures extending somewhat into the coming decade, following by a very rapid rise in temperature leaving the planet on its long - term trend line by 2030.»

And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.»

Given that there is still much we do not know about climate change — including why mean global temperature has been flat for the past ten years — undermining confidence in climate science can (further) undermine its ability to inform policy.

The assumption of nearly flat CO2 concentration before mid-20th century is unjustified as it has a strong correlation with the global mean temperature since 1958 as shown:

The five - year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

Hansen» rationalization of why, (as he states) «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade», is interesting background information, but, of course, does not change the observed fact that there is this standstill, which he acknowledges.

James E. Hansen tells us «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade» (which isn't much different).

«Global mean surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively flat over the most recent 15 years to 2013,» the Met says.

The observations of a global mean temperature «flat» with no linear trend since 1997 can not be discarded.

Those in the know like erudite James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observe, «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.»

4) With further 10 years of human emission of CO2, since 2000, there was little warming with average global mean temperature anomaly flat at about 0.4 deg C as shown in the following chart.

Dr. James Hansen — NASA GISS — 15 January 2013 «The 5 - year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing.»

«We've had a flat global mean temperature since 1998,» he notes.

But what if The Pause continues into AR6 and beyond, i.e. a flat or declining atmospheric global mean temperature in the face of ever - rising GHG emissions?

And yet the problem with the uptick is not that it should be flat, rather it is that their reconstruction does not provide a reasonable constraint on global mean temperatures during the last few centuries.

quote: «global mean temperatures have increased on the order of one degree Fahrenheit over the past century, having risen significantly from about 1919 to 1940, decreased between 1940 and the early»70s, increased again until the»90s, and remaining essentially flat since 1998.»

Seventeen years without a temperature increase is also at odds with a report by the United Kingdom's Met Office that said «global mean surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s, but have been relatively flat over the most recent 15 years to 2013.»

Could they be the reason for the nearly flat global mean surface temperature for the last ten years.