Sentences with phrase «recent warm period»

If recent warm periods (or interglacials) are a guide, then we may soon slip into another glacial period.

I reproduced your graph here (basically the same except it has a coarser smoothing algorithm), then produced a graph covering only the recent warming period: (1975 - 1985) to (1995 - 2004), shown here.

It is only for the urban stations that the recent warm period seems «unusually warm».

They don't imply that recent temperatures are unusually warm, just that the recent warm period is warmer than the last similar warm period.

This makes the recent warm period seem much hotter than the earlier warm period.

That doesn't tell us whether the recent warm period is «unusual» or not, does it?

In reality, the hottest year on record for Valentia Observatory was 1949, and the recent warm period doesn't seem at all «unusual».

The first problem is that most of the indicators have records that are too short to compare the recent warm period to the earlier warm periods, i.e., they don't start until after the 1930s - 1940s warm period.

But, none of them actually covered a long enough time period to compare the recent warm period to the earlier warm periods, such as the 1930s - 1940s warm period.

The recent warm period doesn't seem at all unusual.

more than 0.4 °C cooler than the warmest February, which occurred in 2016 at the peak of the recent warm period.

So, again, it seems that the 1930s warm period was at the very least comparable to the recent warm period.

So, if the Unadjusted dataset of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network is reliable, then it would seem that the Dust Bowl era in the U.S. was just as warm as the recent warm period.

So, the relative warmth of the recent warm period should probably be reduced somewhat, to account for urbanization bias.

It may well be that the recent warm period was warmer than the early 20th century warm period, as the raw data suggests... Or it may be that biases in the raw data are substantial, and the early 20th century warm period was just as warm as the recent warm period, or maybe even warmer.

If the earlier warm period was comparable to the recent warm period, then claims that recent global temperature trends are unprecedented or unusual will need to be re-evaluated.

So, resolving the urbanization bias problem is necessary to address issues such as how the recent warm period compared to the early 20th century warm period.

The Greenland ice sheet did not melt as much as expected during a recent warming period but that may mean Antarctic ice sheets melted more than expected

This figure was inspired by Fig. 1a of Jensen et al. 2013: «Spatial analysis of ice phenology trends across the Laurentian Great Lakes region during a recent warming period.»