"Global temperature" refers to the average measurement of how hot or cold the Earth's atmosphere is worldwide. It helps scientists to understand the general temperature trends and changes happening all around the planet.
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A change in solar activity may also, for example, have contributed to the post Little Ice Age rise
in global temperatures in the first half of the 20th Century.
Multiple independent analyses of long - term temperature records show average
global temperatures rising as greenhouse gas concentrations have risen.
These are, respectively, the upper «safe» concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the upper «safe» limit of
average global temperature increase.
Those predictions clearly suggest an annual
global temperature record in 2016 and a (relative) cooling in 2017, all while the long - term upward trends continue.
Good post and a brilliant example of how cherry - picking works to make a nonsense of using average
global temperature trends as a climate proxy.
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.
Overall, the published evidence indicates that the net cost of climate change is likely to be significant and to increase
as global temperatures increase.
Scientists show that devastating increases in extreme rainfall over the last 30 years fit in
with global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gases.
The rate at which the world would have to move to zero emissions to
keep global temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius.
However, estimates of the planetary climate sensitivity to increasing atmospheric CO2 and other radiative forcings are not solely based on the change in the
mean global temperature over the past 100 years.
Nearly 200 countries will try to reach a new climate agreement that
limits global temperature increases to below 2 degrees Celsius.
In fact, if we could maintain the climate and average
global temperature at today's levels, everybody would be thrilled.
But,
if global temperatures increase from man - made global warming, this could increase water vapour concentrations, potentially leading to more warming.
Scientists have high confidence
about global temperature trends over recent decades because those observations are based on a massive amount of data.
They also looked at a period
when global temperatures dropped 11 to 12 degrees over a period 52 million to 34 million years ago.
Drawing from both social psychology and climate science, the new model investigates how human behavioral changes evolve in response to extreme climate events and
affect global temperature change.
Despite continually increasing concentrations of greenhouse gas, there has been a hiatus in rising
global temperatures during the 21st century.
A feature of the 165 - year long
global temperature series in recent years is that new records highs have not been rare at all.
This was by design, in that the intention was to examine
how global temperature rises might affect species distributions.
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