Sentences with phrase «observed warming of the globe»

Not exact matches

Those dangers are now being dramatically demonstrated around the globe: drought in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, which has forced the government there to issue a state of emergency warning; France observed its warmest winter since records began; while the sea ice that has formed in the Arctic this winter is about a million square kilometres less than its average for this time of year.

The currently observed near - surface warming over nearly the entire globe is already considered by a large fraction of our society to be result of this additional greenhouse effect.

Pre-war temperature also has the potential for being noisier because the sampling covered less of the globe so is more prone to confluences situations where they drive cooling / warming in the observed locations and the opposite in the non-observed locations (cf the difference between HadCRUT3 and GISTEMP).

Back in 2007, the IPCC said it was «more likely than not» (meaning, a greater - than -50-percent probability) that human activities — through global warming — were contributing to an observed intensification of hurricanes in at least some regions of the globe.

While there are areas, such as the extra-tropical Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean, where the GFDL model warms significantly more than has been observed, the anthropogenic climate change simulations do provide a plausible explanation of temperature trends over the last century over large areas of the globe.