Sentences with phrase «heat records continued»

Warming fueled by greenhouse gas emissions continues to rewrite the record books: Over the past several weeks, heat records continued to fall at global, national, and local scales.
The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks

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Manager Michael Brown is already feeling the heat as the side continue to record poor results.
But as long as greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere unabated, the scales are heavily weighted toward more record heat, ever lower sea ice levels and ever higher seas.
It shows a record warming spell earlier this year, which continues to drive up the 5 - year average of heat content, shown in blue.
These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in global warming — caused by the continued release of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.
And as in India, new absolute heat records for different areas continue to be set.
His first is just the continuing stream of record - breaking global heat.
No. 3 Corvette C6.R Continues Hot Streak in High Desert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports car team.
The combination of record high prices and high numbers of sales tells us that demand to get into the real estate market in Markham will continue to heat up in 2016.
The company has come under serious heat dealing with all sorts of different scandals from sexual harassment to discrimination, an exodus of executives (including a CEO / founder resignation), city - wide and country - wide bans, and countless boycotts, yet it's continued to grow at record levels.
There continues to be significant excess heat storage in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer due to continued near - record sea ice loss.
As the forests burn, and the crops fail, the dangerous buildup of greenhouse gases will continue to fuel the planet towards record heating, catastrophic sea level rise, and mass methane release.
Just as importantly, he says, the model helps to explain regional trends that seem to defy the global warming hiatus, including record - breaking heat in the United States last year, and the continued decline of Arctic sea ice.
It says the number of record heat days across Australia has doubled since 1960 and more temperature records are likely to be broken as hot conditions continue this summer.
Intense heat has continued to break records across the country as Texas suffers its most severe one - year drought on record.
We see it in the unprecedented drought, like that which continues to afflict California, a doubling in the area of wildfire, fire burning in the western U.S. and indeed, in the record heat we may see this weekend in phoenix.
My current work is on water - supply and food supply scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support continuing growth, with some unable to continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.
Even as Europeans adapt to hotter summers, rising numbers of heat - related deaths are likely.33, 34 The 2003 heat wave shows that even high - income countries such as the Netherlands are not currently positioned to cope with extreme weather19 — a troubling prospect, as research suggests that by as early as the 2040s, if we continue on the current high emissions path, about half the summers in southern Europe are likely to be as warm as the record - breaking heat wave of 2003.26,35
A report published last year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the lifespan of individual high - temperature records will continue to shorten: heat records that would likely have stood for twenty years in recent times will topple after an average of just two years by the end of the century.
Thermal expansion grew more dramatic as oceans continued to heat up during what may be a record El Nino year.
But with fossil fuel burning continuing at near record levels globally, and with many corporations and political bodies around the world dragging feet on greenhouse gas emissions cuts, the level of heat - trapping carbon held aloft in our airs will continue to rise for some time.
This time period is too short to signify a change in the warming trend, as climate trends are measured over periods of decades, not years.12, 29,30,31,32 Such decade - long slowdowns or even reversals in trend have occurred before in the global instrumental record (for example, 1900 - 1910 and 1940 - 1950; see Figure 2.2), including three decade - long periods since 1970, each followed by a sharp temperature rise.33 Nonetheless, satellite and ocean observations indicate that the Earth - atmosphere climate system has continued to gain heat energy.34
The record heat continued all the way into mid-August.
The Sydney Morning Herald has subsequently announced it also won't allow climate deniers to «misrepresent facts» on climate science in letters - an especially powerful case given the terrifying fires ravaging Australia against a backdrop of continuing broken heat records.
U.S. daily record high temperatures continued to surge into the end of March, with new heat records overwhelming cold records by the incredible ratio of 35.3 to 1.
After 20 minutes switch the heat lamps off but continue recording the temperatures for a further 20 minutes
Photo: GrapevineTxOnline.com / cc As Texas continues to suffer from the worst one - year drought on record along with scorchingly high temperatures, area lakes might seem like the best places to find refuge from the heat, but apparently not for fish.
But as our planet heats up, as ice in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland slides away, as California continues to suffer its most apocalyptic drought on record, pointing a finger at such things will get easier and easier.
Nice theory, but, a large part of the UHI effect is retained heat from insolation (incoming solar radiation energy warming concrete etc) and, if no sun, no warmth... which in large part happened in Dallas Ft. Worth just recently with our record snow; and we had continuing overcast afterwards too.
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