Sentences with phrase «full degree of warming»

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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 stakes for full implementation are high — the agreement is expected to prevent up to 80 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2050, which could prevent up to 0.5 degrees Celsius in warming.

Saturday was unseasonably warm and I took full advantage of the 40 - degree weather with spring accessories: my favorite Kate Spade shoes and a new J.Crew necklace.

But while plenty of other climate scientists hold firm to the idea that the full range of possible outcomes, including a disruptively dangerous warming of more than 4.5 degrees C. (8 degrees F.), remain in play, it's getting harder to see why the high - end projections are given much weight.

And why has the ocean been warming throughout the 11 full years of the ARGO dataset at a rate equivalent to only 1 degree every 430 years?

It's also home to some mysterious weather: Whereas the rest of the world has warmed, the region's summer temperatures have dropped as much as a full degree Celsius, and rainfall has increased up to 35 %, the largest spike anywhere in the world.

Indeed, the drop in temperatures since late - 2007 has been so precipitous — nearly a full degree Celsius — that almost all of the global warming that has occurred since the late - 1970s has disappeared.

But in the first 11 full years of the least ill - resolved dataset we have, the 3500 + Argo bathythermograph buoys, the upper mile and a quarter of the world's oceans warmed at a rate equivalent to just 1 Celsius degree every 430 years, and the warming rate, negligible at the surface, rises faster the deeper the measurements are taken.

All these are dealt with and excluded with high degrees of certainty by IPCC as full explanations of current warming, leaving CO2 emissions as the main smoking gun.

Doing so would represent a fairer share of global emission reductions, ensure the country takes full advantage of its mitigation potential, and increase the chance of limiting warming to below 2 degrees C, to help avoid the most extreme climate change impacts.

When you base your robust disbelief of the link between recent prodigious crop failures and realized warming on what you call the «relatively minor» global average mean anomaly you are demonstrating either less than full appreciation of what nine tenths of a degree could mean for regional weather over shorter periods, or what such weather could mean for agriculture.

«Aside from eliminating emissions and avoiding 1.5 °C degrees global warming and beginning the process of letting carbon dioxide drain from the Earth's atmosphere, transitioning eliminates 4 to 7 million air pollution deaths each year and creates over 24 million long - term full - time jobs by these plans,» Professor Jacobson said.

The surface record is also far longer — dating back to 1880 — and as of the end of 2015 shows a full 1 degree Celsius of warming over pre-industrial temperatures, according to NASA and NOAA.