Sentences with phrase «rapid temperature increase»

Since the very warm surface temperatures of 1998 which followed the strong 1997 - 98 El NinÌ o, the increase in average surface temperature has slowed relative to the previous decade of rapid temperature increases, with more of the excess heat being stored in the oceans.

That is not a particularly happy thought, since the implication is that action to stop emissions (to raise my personal issue, replacing coal power with nuclear) would cause a large and very rapid temperature increase.

However, as experts who were denied participation in the IPCC process began to examine what was said they identified earlier warmer periods, especially the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), and more rapid temperature increases.

Since the very warm surface temperatures of 1998 which followed the strong 1997 - 98 El Niño, the increase in average surface temperature has slowed relative to the previous decade of rapid temperature increases, with more of the excess heat being stored in the oceans.

«That is a rapid temperature increase for marine life,» said Jennie Rheuban, a research associate at WHOI and lead author of the paper published January 15, 2016, in the journal Biogeosciences.

The periods of both rapid temperature increases and decreases are evident, just as they existed since instrumental recording of temperatures first began.

Some parts of the globe are experiencing a rapid temperature increases - for example the Arctic, which has seen dramatic rises of over 2 °C in the last 30 years - others less so.

Then, there is the unqualified phrase «rapid temperature increase,» which implies something unusual happened with the temperatures when there is no evidence.

The authors, led by Rolf Philipona of the World Radiation Center in Davos, show experimentally that 70 percent of the rapid temperature increase is very likely caused by water vapor feedback.

A new report indicates that the vast majority of the rapid temperature increase recently observed in Europe is likely due to an unexpected greenhouse gas: water vapor.