Sentences with phrase «last warm spell»
Humanity «rose» from the onset of this current period of recurring glaciations ~ 3 Million years ago, and from the above site (**): -[«During the last warm spell, 125,000 years ago, the seas were about 18 feet higher than they are today.
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Podolski was a natural goal scorer during his spells with FC Koln and Bayern Munich.Even at Arsenal, his arrival was met with warm reception and till last season he was an important squad player.
Lehmann, 41, who left Arsenal in 2008 and re-joined the club last month as emergency cover after retiring last season following a spell with Stuttgart, was called up to start the match after Manuel Almunia was injured in the warm - up.
In their separate spells at the club, both warmed the hearts of Liverpool fans, Torres hit 81 goals in 142 appearances, while Suarez struck 31 goals in 33 league games last season as the Reds came agonisingly close to winning a first league title in over two decades.
The Times Union's report did not spell out losses from the unseasonably warm winter season last year.
The last 10 years have, on average, been as warm as a normal one year in 500 warm spell.»
About 13,000 years ago, a sharp, 1300 - year - long cold and dry spell called the Younger Dryas reversed the warming that had followed the last ice age.
A warm spell in the 60s or 70s (Fahrenheit) will produce blooms lasting four to five days, while colder temperatures could extend the blooming period so it lasts between seven and 10 days.
There are still significant warm spells in the High Arctic lately, last week over Cornwallis +4.8 C was measured along with freezing rain on the ground at -2 C, a plane flying over Lancaster Sound measured +10 C..
The drop in mean temperatures since 1950 in the Northern Hemisphere has been sufficient, for example, to shorten Britain's growing season for crops by two weeks... The first half of this century has apparently been the warmest period since the «hot spell» between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago immediately following the last ice age.»
Some growers salvaged a decent yield by diversifying their crops — and taking advantage of a late - season warm spell to do some last - minute harvesting.
The last 10 years have, on average, been as warm as a normal one year in 500 warm spell,» said Bryan Shuman, an earth scientist at the University of Wyoming, and one of the authors.
By 2100, tropical regions would also experience warm spells lasting up to 50 percent longer in a 2 C world than at 1.5 C. «For heat - related extremes, the additional 0.5 C increase marks the difference between events at the upper limit of present - day natural variability and a new climate regime, particularly in tropical regions,» Schleussner said.
Due to the way in which these various cycles have been relative constant over the last 35 million years, the earth has settled into a relatively recent cycle of approximately 100,000 year long declining climates and ice ages, and brief 12,000 - 18,000 year long warm spells we call inter-glacial periods like our current Holocene.
The IPCC * itself * acknowledges that there has been no such warming now for the last 16 - 17 years; that no dramatic imminent change is seen to that for the next couple of years at least; that the previous spell of 15 years or so was precisely the duration of warming that underlay so much of the evidence cited for its alarms of the long and terrible global trend if forecast; that not a single model the IPCC had or has seems to have come even close to predicting what we've now seen; that the IPCC can only suggest possible explanations for all this so logically meaning it can have no reason to believe that whatever is causing it isn't going to continue forever; that more and more studies are coming in attributing global temperatures not to CO2 but instead other things such as solar fluctuations; that a number of predictions are now coming in that in fact say we are now in for a lengthy period of * cooling.
After the end of the last Ice Age came a warm spell, which ended a few thousand years ago as the global temperature dropped fairly steadily — until the 20th century.