Sentences with phrase «long warm spell»

They say a rise in methane in the northern hemisphere might be the result of a year - long warm spell in Siberia, where wetlands harbour methane - producing bacteria, but they have no immediate answer as to why emissions rose in the southern hemisphere at the same time.

In 2013, the longest warm spell of the year took place between December 14th and December 30th — that's 17 consecutive days which had warmer than average temperatures.

«Extreme events Global warming of 2C vs 1.5 C is likely to lead to more frequent and more intense hot extremes in most land regions as well as to longer warm spells.

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.

Not exact matches

The use of warm spices and the long hours of cooking imparts mesmerizing aroma and spell - binding flavor.

19) West Bromwich Albion (Chris Brunt)-- Has been an everpresent during West Brom's recent Premier League spell, warming the heart with some fine long range strikes.

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.

The report warns that natural gas will have to be phased out along with coal, if the world is to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C, as spelt out in the Paris Agreement long term temperature goal.

Given how much yelling takes place on the Internet, talk radio, and elsewhere over short - term cool and hot spells in relation to global warming, I wanted to find out whether anyone had generated a decent decades - long graph of global temperature trends accounting for, and erasing, the short - term up - and - down flickers from the cyclical shift in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle.

SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters)-- Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade - long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist [Peter Baines] said on Wednesday.

Other serious researchers in the field, while convinced of the building long - term danger, warn that nature will almost surely jostle chaotically through cool and warm spells along the way to what Dr. Hansen calls «a different planet.»

4) A change in global weather patterns which I noticed as long ago as 2000 whereby the jet streams moved back towards the equator from the positions they adopted during the warming spell.

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.

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.

On a longer time period, we must also be prepared for droughts, wet spells, cold and warm spells.

Concerning the impact on extreme temperature events (winter cold spells, summer heat waves), these dynamical changes appear to be secondary compared to the long - term warming trend that results in fewer and less intense winter cold spells, and more frequent and intense summer heat waves in mid-latitudes.

(03/22/2012) Central U.S. and parts of Canada have seen over a thousand record temperatures shattered over the past week and a half, as an abnormally - long and bizarrely - hot warm spell moves across portions of North America.