Sentences with phrase «record low temperature events»

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Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

Figure 13 appears to imply that 6 % of each El Niño and La Niña event remains within the global surface temperature record and that it is this cumulative effect of ENSO events that raises and lowers global Sea Surface Temperatures.

Masters's column then delves into specific events from around the globe: extremely low Arctic ice and rapid melting in Greenland; a radical shift from El Nino to La Nina; an Amazonian drought; a bizarre period for tropical cyclones and monsoons; floods, heat waves, record rainfalls across the world; the strongest non-coastal storm in U.S. history; and a long list of countries that set record high temperatures.

If you look at data concerning record low temperatures, they have not risen the way record high temperature events have.

Like a growing number of extreme weather events, an increase in the number of record - high temperatures — and a concomitant decrease in the number of record lows — is characteristic of a warming world.

A Media Matters analysis finds that news coverage of climate change on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX remained low in 2012 despite record temperatures and a series of extreme weather events in the U.S..

As notable as this week's cold wave was — bringing the coldest air seen since 1996 or 1994 over much of the nation — the event failed to set any monthly or all - time record low minimum temperature records at airports and cooperative observing stations monitored by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.