Sentences with phrase «recent warmest decade»

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... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

The denial of evolution and of global warming and the pushback against stem cell research are the most egregious examples in recent decades.

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

«This trend to have even more dramatic numbers of overnight lower temperatures being exceedingly warm is consistent with what we have seen in recent decades,» he said.

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

The most important of these was an apparent mismatch between the instrumental surface temperature record (which showed significant warming over recent decades, consistent with a human impact) and the balloon and satellite atmospheric records (which showed little of the expected warming).

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

«The most recent 10 - year interval (1999 — 2008) was the warmest of the past 200 decades,» they wrote.

The basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, but it is in recent decades that the fundamental science of global warming has solidified

«At 1.5 degrees Celsius, half of the time we stay within our current summer sea ice regime whereas if we reach 2 degrees of warming, the summer sea ice area will always be below what we have experienced in recent decades.»

The findings could serve as a warning sign that engineers need to design stronger structures, especially as glide avalanches may become more frequent: Warmer winters in the future may cause snowpacks to become, on average, wetter and denser than those seen in winters of recent decades.

Independent measurements of sea surface temperatures in the last two decades support a recent government analysis that found an increase in sea surface warming, according to a new study in the 4 January issue of the journal Science Advances.

IF THE world is getting warmer, why has the North Atlantic cooled in recent decades?

In hot water Coral reefs have been besieged in recent decades by everything from warming waters to ocean acidification, disease, overfishing and pollution.

The ice, however, is a part of the Antarctic peninsula that has warmed fast in recent decades.

In recent decades, as the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed around him, Bill Fraser has pieced together these myriad factors that have caused Adélie populations in his study area to decline by more than 80 percent, falling from roughly 35,000 breeding pairs in 1974 to 5,600 today.

«I would say it is significant that temperatures of the most recent decade exceed the warmest temperatures of our reconstruction by 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit, having few — if any — precedents over the last 11,000 years,» Marsicek says.

Even during recent years when a La Niña (the cold water counterpart to El Niño) has been in place, the year turned out warmer than El Niño years of earlier decades.

These changes have been compounded by stronger waves in the North Sea in recent decades, and could be further exacerbated if predictions that storminess will increase with global warming prove accurate.

- Tree death rates in old - growth forests in the western United States have more than doubled in recent decades, probably due to regional warming, according to a USGS report.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

«It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.»

These waters have become warmer and moved to shallower depths in recent decades, causing glacier retreat to accelerate.»

Upper ocean temperatures have warmed significantly in most regions of the world over recent decades, with anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing very likely being the main contributor21.

computer models... suggest the upper atmosphere should have warmed substantially in recent decades.

The paper's researchers, led by U.C. Davis marine biologist Patrick Kilduff, explain that the NPGO — which is largely driven by a flavor of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that produces warming in the tropical central Pacific Ocean — has become more common in recent decades.

The research comes on the heels of two recent papers — one which Mann co-authored — projecting that rapid warming is likely to resume in the next decade.

This means that if the GCR - warming hypothesis is correct, this increase in GCRs should actually be causing global cooling over the past five decades, and particularly cold temperatures in recent years.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s recent report said the rate of warming over the past 15 years has been 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade — quite a bit smaller than the 0.12 degrees per decade calculated since 1951.

To be consistent with recent observations, anthropogenic warming is likely to lie in the range 0.1 to 0.2 °C / decade over the next few decades under the IS92a scenario.

Across the globe in recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of hot extremes, particularly very warm nights.1 Hot days have also been hotter and more frequent.2 Since 1950 the number of heat waves has increased and heat waves have become longer.3

Those studies find a relatively small solar contribution to global warming, particularly in recent decades (Figure 8).

That earlier paper concluded that human - caused climate warming accounts for a doubling of area burned in western U.S. forests in recent decades.

The European Alps have been growing since the end of the last little Ice Age in 1850 when glaciers began shrinking as temperatures warmed, but the rate of uplift has accelerated in recent decades because global warming has sped up the rate of glacier melt, the researchers say.

As the graph below from Spracklen's News and Views article shows, the balance between warming (red shading) and cooling (blue shading) have kept the country's contribution to human - caused climate change pegged at about 10 % in recent decades, despite soaring fossil fuel emissions.

Even as greenhouse gas pollution has warmed the planet's surface in recent decades, warming rates across the West have been exceptionally rapid.

If greenhouse gases were responsible for global temperature increases in recent decades, atmospheric physics require that higher levels of our atmosphere would show greater warming than lower levels.

The steady uptick in warming, even with a relative slowdown in recent decades, means that the likelihood of seeing a record cold year in the future is, according to a quick calculation by Mann, «astronomically small.»

According to a recent Climate Central analysis, Colorado was the 20th - fastest warming state between 1970 and 2011, with average temperatures increasing by about 0.5 °F per decade.

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

A new report titled «Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decade» basically says just that: Global warming could eventually render the Arctic iceless.

Organized chronologically, it features works from each decade, from their earliest installations to their continent - traversing work of the 1990s; and their most recent works both educating people about global warming and designing large - scale responses to the phenomena itself.

Finally, to show that cosmic rays were actually responsible for some part of the recent warming you would need to show that there was actually a decreasing trend in cosmic rays over recent decades — which is tricky, because there hasn't been (see the figure)(Missing step # 5).

Less variability is evident in monthly and annual temperature averages at U.S. climate stations for the warmer and more recent decades... more blanketing effect on temperatures.

Last week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 10 other leading world bodies expressed the consensus view that «there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring» and that «It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities».

«Finally, subtropical drying trends predicted from the warming alone fall well short of those observed in recent decades.

Our results thus show that, indeed, recent decades in West Antarctica, which have been characterized by very rapid warming, and very rapid loss of ice from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, are highly unusual.

«To be consistent with recent observations, anthropogenic warming is likely to lie in the range 0.1 to 0.2 Â °C / decade over the next few decades under the IS92a scenario.»

To be consistent with recent observations, anthropogenic warming is likely to lie in the range 0.1 to 0.2 °C / decade over the next few decades under the IS92a scenario.

computer models... suggest the upper atmosphere should have warmed substantially in recent decades.