The first statement in this quote referred to past temperatures — Lindzen did not believe the surface temperature record was accurate, and did not believe that the planet had warmed from 1880 to 1989 (in reality, global
surface temperatures warmed approximately 0.5 °C over that timeframe).
Earth
Surface Temperature warmed approximately 0.7 degrees Celsius from ~ 1910 to ~ 1945, cooled ~ 0.4 C from ~ 1945 to ~ 1975, warmed ~ 0.6 C from ~ 1975 to 1997, and has not warmed significantly from 1997 to 2007.
Not exact matches
Ice shells of icy satellites can have
warm interiors —
approximately 0 degrees C — but
surface temperatures as low as -200 degrees C -LRB--330 F), like on Saturn's moon Enceladus, though the team's apparatus does not reach that extremely low
temperature.
Even if we focus exclusively on global
surface temperatures, Cowtan & Way (2013) shows that when we account for
temperatures across the entire globe (including the Arctic, which is the part of the planet
warming fastest), the global
surface warming trend for 1997 — 2015 is
approximately 0.14 °C per decade.
The East Pacific Ocean (90S - 90N, 180 - 80W) has not
warmed since the start of the satellite - based Reynolds OI.v2 sea
surface temperature dataset, yet the multi-model mean of the CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) and CMIP5 (IPCC AR5) simulations of sea
surface temperatures say, if they were
warmed by anthropogenic forcings, they should have
warmed approximately 0.42 to 0.44 deg C.
From 1900 to 1950 the Earth's
surface temperature warmed by
approximately 0.4 °C.
Global
warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average
surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been
approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»
They found that sea
surface temperatures during the Medieval
Warm Period are
approximately equal to today's
temperatures.
There are quite a few reasons to believe that the
surface temperature record — which shows a
warming of
approximately 0.6 ° -0.8 °C over the last century (depending on precisely how the
warming trend is defined)-- is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.
A radiocarbon - dated box core in the Sargasso Sea shows that sea
surface temperature was
approximately 1 °C cooler than today
approximately 400 years ago (the Little Ice Age) and 1700 years ago, and
approximately 1 °C
warmer than today 1000 years ago (the Medieval
Warm Period).
When
surface temperatures are below
approximately 4C, clouds would tend to be a
warming feedback and above 4 C and cooling feedback.
World Meteorological Organization also confirmed 2017 as being among the three
warmest years, and the
warmest year without an El Niño, by consolidating the five leading international datasets, including HadCRUT4, which showed that overall the global average
surface temperature in 2017 was
approximately 1.1 ° Celsius above the pre-industrial era.
There has been one positive and one negative PDO cycle over the past 60 years, during which time the
surface air
temperatures warmed approximately 0.6 °C.
It's not a coincidence that the NASA GISS, HadCRU, and NOAA
surface temperature datasets show
approximately the same amount of
warming.
And of course while the
warming since 1996 (this date being selected with a juicy cherrypick) may not quite be statistically significant at a 95 % confidence level,
surface temperatures have most likely
warmed approximately 0.2 °C over the past 15 years - a fact which Cato and Michaels conveniently neglect to mention.
One study estimates that there are likely to be places on Earth where unprotected humans without cooling mechanisms, such as air conditioning, would die in less than six hours if global average
surface temperature rises by about 12.6 ° F (7 ° C).16 With
warming of 19.8 - 21.6 ° F (11 - 12 ° C), this same study projects that regions where
approximately half of the world's people now live could become intolerable.7
The fit of a trend line to the time series of global - mean
surface temperature (e.g., Figure 2.5) indicates a
warming between 0.25 to 0.4 °C for this 20 - year period, or
approximately 0.1 to 0.2 °C per decade, 6 depending upon which of the existing data sets is used to represent the
surface temperatures, and exactly how the fitting is done.
Antarctic vegetation in the MMCO implies a summer
temperature of
approximately 11 °C
warmer than today [24] and annual sea
surface temperatures ranging from 0 °C to 11.5 °C [25].
Between 1850 and 1990 the global - mean
temperature at the
surface of the Earth
warmed by
approximately 0.5 °C (about 1 °F).
For several decades,
surface air
temperatures in the Arctic have
warmed at
approximately twice the global rate (McBean et al., 2005).