Sentences with phrase «recent warming episode»

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For example, note that the most recent La Nina episode (2010 - 2011) was warmer than all previous La Ninas, and warmer than all but the three most recent El Ninos.

It has also resulted in a stream of coverage and commentary on the relationship of this and other recent drought episodes to global warming.

The recent La Nina episode combined with a quiet sun has almost wiped out the warming observed over the past 20 years in a period of less than 2 years.

But she ignores the fact that the 1998 El Nino warming was extreme, as was the recent extended La Nina episode with associated cooling.

But the episode — revealed at a recent meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Salt Lake City, Utah — is a reminder that the energies released by the dangerous mix of swirling winds and warm oceans are dramatic and, with global warming, could become even more frequent and more devastating.

... In light of their recent findings, Davies et al. say there is «little support for the existence of a «permanent El Niño»... that there was robust ENSO variability in past «greenhouse» episodes and that future warming will be unlikely to promote a permanent El Niño state,» which point they also emphasize in the final sentence of their abstract, where they say that their evidence for robust Late Cretaceous ENSO variability «does not support the theory of a «permanent El Niño,»» [Andrew Davies, Alan E.S. Kemp, Graham P. Weedon, John A. Barron 2012: Geology]

It is too early to say much about such a recent episode but various studies have attributed earlier individual heatwaves or drought to global warming, notably those in Europe in 2003, Russia [continue reading...]

The percentage change in the number of very hot days can be quite large.11 Global warming boosts the probability of very extreme events, like the recent «Summer in March» episode in the U.S. in which thousands of new record highs were set, far more than it changes the likelihood of more moderate events.12

The recent dramatic warming of the last 3 decades of the 20th century coinciding with massive releases of chlorofluorocarbons to the atmosphere tends to support this model, especially as that warming episode appears to have ended some 17 years ago.

1) Is Stefan's postulated heat sequestration process unique to this most recent episode of global warming; i.e., is it unprecedented in the history of global warming episodes?

I'll admit that I've noticed, and that I was watching a recent episode of «The View» this morning (via DVR) when Roseanne revealed her solution to all the world's problems, including global warming: The macadamia nut.

After reviewing evidence in both the latest global data (HadCRUT4) and the longest instrumental record, Central England Temperature, a revised picture is emerging that gives a consistent attribution for each multidecadal episode of warming and cooling in recent history, and suggests that the anthropogenic global warming trends might have been overestimated by a factor of two in the second half of the 20th century.