Sentences with phrase «for global temperature»

They also indicated whether they believed that human activity is responsible for global temperature increases in recent decades.

Highly scalable negative emission technologies are crucial if we are to stay below the 2 - degree target [for global temperature rise] of the international community.

If greenhouse gases were responsible for global temperature increases in recent decades, atmospheric physics require that higher levels of our atmosphere would show greater warming than lower levels.

One contribution of 13 to a Theme Issue «Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications».

Anyone care to estimate the lag time for global temperature response?

Recently, the world's major climate agencies published their year - end empirical datasets for global temperatures.

Eventually, building on that 1988 performance, other climate experts developed a hypothesis that CO2 acted as the proverbial control - knob thermostat for the global temperature.

This can be accomplished by examining simple 10 - year absolute change events for global temperatures, both positive and negative.

My conclusion is that we can have a strong confidence in the results produced for the global temperature trend.

The document shows the record highs set for global temperatures, sea level and greenhouse gases in 2015.

Exactly the same will occur for global temperature, because trends over a few decades are meaningless?

For global temperature anomalies, we are doing pretty well.

If greenhouse gases were responsible for global temperature increases in recent decades, atmospheric physics require that higher levels of our atmosphere would show greater warming than lower levels.

You can see these scenarios in the charts below, which show projections for global temperature rise (upper chart), rate of glacier change (middle) and total glacier mass (lower).

The Paris agreement set a goal to keep the planet from warming by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, with 2 degrees Celsius as the upper limit for global temperature rise.

in Section 4.3 of our «Urbanization bias I. Is it a negligible problem for global temperature estimates?».

The shaded area in Fig. 2A shows the 10 — 90 % confidence intervals for the global temperature signal associated with the leading linear discriminant in an ensemble of 32 20th century retrospective simulations (20c3m) taken from the CMIP3 archive.

What will next year hold for global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels, the electric car revolution and Trump's coal dream, wonders Owen Gaffney

Records for global temperature rise keep getting broken; reports of worker exploitation and abuse show no signs of abating; and global income inequality continues to rise.

«This forecast suggests that by the end of 2016 we will have seen three record, or near - record years in a row for global temperatures,» Adam Scaife, head of long - range prediction at the Met Office, said in a statement.

But... once the records are converted to anomalies relative to some baseline such as 1961 - 1990, there would be absolutely no difference in the results of the two approaches for global temperature anomalies!

Then using an estimate of 14.0 C for the global temperature average of the 20th century, 12 - month absolute temperatures were calculated from the calculated 12 - month average anomalies.

«It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme,» says Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.