Sentences with phrase «observed global air temperature»

If the sun is primarily responsible for observed global air temperature changes (even if heavily modulated by ocean behaviour as I contend elsewhere) then we need to know sooner rather than later otherwise a misdiagnosis of the causes of climate change could cause unimaginable disruption and hardship through the imposition of incorrect remedies.

On balance the evidence shows that solar and oceanic variations are more likely the cause of recent observations of warming in the air than increasing CO2 in the air but the issue can soon be resolved by observing the global air temperature changes that occur during and after the extended cycle 23 and the probable weak cycle 24.

Not exact matches

The map below shows the observed change in global near - surface air temperature since 1900.

The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1 — 0.2 °C, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001.

So the IPCC have formalized the claim that, were it not for Chinese air pollution, the global temperature rise would be higher than it has been, justifying more actual sensitivity to CO2 than we appear to observe.

The term «global warming» has been used to describe the observed surface air temperature increase in the 20th century.

«A multiple linear regression analysis of global annual mean near - surface air temperature (1900 — 2012) using the known radiative forcing and the El Niño — Southern Oscillation index as explanatory variables account for 89 % of the observed temperature variance.

Despite the many unresolved issues touched on in this chapter and discussed in more detail in chapters 5 — 9, the progress that has been achieved over the past few years provides a basis for drawing some tentative conclusions concerning the nature of the observed differences between surface and upper air temperature trends, and their implications for the detection and attribution of global climate change.break

«The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1 — 0.2 degree Celsius, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001,» wrote Australian researcher led by Matthew England of the University of New South Wales.

Craig King - Further to Bob Loblaw's comments; that global surface air temperatures are warming faster than upper ocean temperatures is well - observed and completely uncontroversial.

Note that this result is not directly a test of model fidelity, but rather of linearity; what is converging here is the model's representations of air - sea interaction leading to global mean surface temperature anomalies, not whether the models have the ability to capture the magnitude or even the spatial patterns of observed RASST variability.

As Media Matters has noted, the IPCC's 2007 «Synthesis Report» concluded that» [w] arming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level» and that» [m] ost of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [defined in the report as a» > 90 %» probability] due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human - caused] GHG [greenhouse gas] concentrations.»

«Fs», the fixed SST forcing, is a combination of the flux change at the top of (and throughout) the atmosphere and of the global surface air temperature change after the forcing and with observed sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice (SI) held fixed.