Sentences with phrase «of decades of cooling»

Would you look at the Marcott data — the long downward trend minus the bogus uptick, of course — as evidence that supports your prediction of decades of cooling?

An awful lot of disagreement with mainstream climate science, so many mentions of decades of cooling, none of them serious.

If the new forecast of a decade of cooler temperatures in North America and Europe pans out, it will pose a substantial challenge to climate campaigners, politicians, and citizens: Can they produce meaningful action to limit the long - term warming that scientists still say is clearly ahead under a building greenhouse blanket even when it's cooling outside?

Not exact matches

Design trends change quickly, and in the span of a decade or two, the fonts, colors and shapes that seemed cool at the time could be laughed at in the modern era as nostalgic leftovers.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

For a Christian kid in the»90s, this was probably pretty cool, but like a lot of swing - for the - fences decades - old music videos, the ambitious narrative doesn't really age well — especially the twist ending.

There is also evidence that the warming trend has stopped, for example, a slight cooling trend in the last decade, and that the sun's cycles have more to do with climate warming and cooling than anything we are capable of doing But none of that matters.

Though in the past decades there has been an appreciable cooling off of the fervor displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the advocates of the psychology of religion, still today the various schools of depth - psychology and psychoanalysis offer clues to the understanding of the unconscious and its workings.

I did find it was like a long cool drink of water for me, parched as I have been for several decades by fundagelical training, including seminary.

I was for a decade a line chef of sorts but now General Manager of some pretty cool function centres, still in the industry, still playing with food.

If you are, you're missing out on one of the coolest culinary trends to hit kitchen tables this decade: Bowls!

So, shortly after I arrived I headed out of the city and down around the bay to the then decade - old winery, one of the Peninsula's pioneers, where I had one of my first in - situ introductions to the cool - climate southern Victorian wine styles I'd been selling in Britain.

The timing is unassailably cool, showing up after the lost decade, right when there's some danger of losing the current decade, and helping that rich, storied franchise get back to their championship ways is absolutely gross, which is how you can also tell how special it is.

On the one hand, sending someone to rub in the Super Bowl win would be cool, but on the other hand, the Cowboys sending Drew Pearson to Philly to talk about how good they were decades ago is so very Dallas Cowboys of them, and I think it will also be funny if our reaction is basically «we don't care, because you don't matter.»

Your comment made me finally realize why all of the «cool» jungle gym equipment was removed from my former elementary school in the last couple of decades!

Scenic Hudson has worked for decades to stop the massive environmental damage to the Hudson River caused by the plant's withdrawal of billions of gallons a day of cooling water.

The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change

Already sluggish, the sun may be slipping into several decades of hibernation that could exert a cooling effect on Earth's climate, several new studies suggest.

Because the Earth's climate has a certain amount of natural variability, and those natural cycles can have warming and cooling effects that last for a couple of decades or even longer, Tebaldi said, it takes time to detect a change.

In contrast, in decades of coolest sea surface temperature, swifter winds extract more heat from the western and central Atlantic before arriving in Europe.

These wind shifts mean that air arrives in Western Europe via very different pathways in decades when the surface of the North Atlantic is warm, compared to decades when it is cool.

«But our research suggests that the dynamics of the atmosphere might stop this relative cooling from showing up in Europe in winter in the decades following an Atlantic cooling.»

We've known for decades that all supercell thunderstorms have a gust front, which is the boundary between the moist, warm air that is flowing into the storm and the generally cooler air coming down out of the storm.

For decades, scientists have theorized that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates is driven largely by negative buoyancy created as they cool.

It notes that a storage facility that could hold spent fuel for several decades while it cools could free up space in reactors» pools, lowering the risk of overheating, loss of coolant, and fires.

The cooling trend was reversed during the 20th century, with four of the five warmest decades of our 2000 - year - long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000.

The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that they responded to past abrupt cooling and warming periods, some of which might have lasted only decades.

Researchers have known for decades that if you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point of — 452 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 269 degrees Celsius) it will suddenly be able to do things that other fluids can't, like dribble through molecule - thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun.

Over a decade the trend is cooling temperatures in the northern parts of Eurasia.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

As the recent meltdown in Fukushima showed, the design of these reactors» systems, such as the donut - shaped «suppression pool» of water meant to cool the reactor in a crisis, showed flaws — flaws identified by regulators decades ago.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

As Earth heats up the cool alpine temperatures, plant species have begun a slow - motion diaspora to escape, relocating upward an average of 29 meters per decade.

Models suggest that it is perfectly possible for a decade or two of cooling to occur even when there is a long - term warming trend.

«The mounting evidence is coalescing around the idea that decades of stronger trade winds coincide with decades of stalls or even slight cooling of global surface temperatures, as heat is apparently transferred from the atmosphere into the upper ocean,» Linsley said.

Like Foster and Rahmstorf, Lean and Rind (2008) performed a multiple linear regression on the temperature data, and found that while solar activity can account for about 11 % of the global warming from 1889 to 2006, it can only account for 1.6 % of the warming from 1955 to 2005, and had a slight cooling effect -LRB--0.004 °C per decade) from 1979 to 2005.

The Western Antarctic Peninsula has been rapidly cooling since 1999 -LRB--0.47 °C per decade), reversing the previous warming trend and leading to «a shift to surface mass gains of the peripheral glacier» (Oliva et al., 2017).

They found that from 1979 to 2010, solar activity had a very slight cooling effect of between -0.014 and -0.023 °C per decade, depending on the data set (Table 1, Figure 2).

Tsonis said he thinks the current trend of steady or even cooling earth temps may last a couple of decades or until the next climate shift occurs.»

Periods of volcanism can cool the climate (as with the 1991 Pinatubo eruption), methane emissions from increased biological activity can warm the climate, and slight changes in solar output and orbital variations can all have climate effects which are much shorter in duration than the ice age cycles, ranging from less than a decade to a thousand years in duration (the Younger Dryas).

They found that ENSO, as measured through the the Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI), had a slight cooling effect of about -0.014 to -0.023 °C per decade in the surface and lower troposphere temperatures, respectively from 1979 through 2010 (Table 1, Figure 4).

That's several decades of regional cooling while CO2 concentrations were rapidly rising.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

While not nearly as dramatic, the influence of solar, ocean, and wind patterns is much more immediate, but these effects generally alternate between warming and cooling over the course of months to decades in relation to their respective cycles.

SMR - 160 is a conventional fission reactor, using water as the cooling medium, and is designed with six decades of world - wide industrial operating experience with pressurized water reactors.

This animation shows how the same temperature data (green) that is used to determine the long - term global surface air warming trend of 0.16 °C per decade (red) can be used inappropriately to «cherrypick» short time periods that show a cooling trend simply because the endpoints are carefully chosen and the trend is dominated by short - term noise in the data (blue steps).

Isn't it strange how six periods of cooling can add up to a clear warming trend over the last 4 decades?

In the middle of the last century, for example, soot and other particles spewing from factory smokestacks, collectively known as aerosols — cooled the planet for a couple of decades.

Ocean temperatures experience interannual variability and over the past 3 decades of global warming have had several short periods of cooling.

In recent times, climate skeptics have been peddling a lot of nonsense about average temperatures actually cooling over the last decade.