"Surface warming" refers to the increase in temperature on the Earth's surface, caused primarily by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial processes. This term describes the gradual heating of the land and ocean surfaces, leading to global climate change and various environmental impacts.
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The combined effect of all these changes is actually to reduce the rate
of surface warming over the past 100 years compared to what we see in the raw temperature data.
These estimates are very consistent, finding between 2 and 4.5 °C
global surface warming in response to doubled carbon dioxide.
The original 1st edition summary contained the comment that «models do not generally reproduce the observed reduction
in surface warming trend over the last 10 to 15 years».
Net human and natural percent contributions to the observed global
surface warming over the past 50 - 65 years.
Their key finding - the contribution of each effect to the observed global
surface warming trends over the four periods in question - is shown in Figure 1.
In any case your null hypothesis only addressed the question of whether CO2
caused surface warming, not the actual amount of warming it caused.
We could also be seeing the end of the much - discussed slowdown in
surface warming since 1998, meaning this is just the start of a period of rapid warming.
To begin, they suggest the climate community replace the term «global warming hiatus» with «global
surface warming slowdown» to eliminate confusion.
This CO2 rise alone would have caused approximately 0.1
°C surface warming, which is approximately 20 % of the total observed warming during that period.
It is instead a surface water vapor feedback which adds additional
surface warming on top of the usual things we talk about.
Maximum warming occurs over the surface during winter while
less surface warming is found in summer when heat is being used to melt sea ice.
Yes, the oceans are warming but these trends are 10 % to 20 % of the
predicted surface warming trend of about 0.2 C per decade.
If the best mitigation efforts are made and we get lucky with climate sensitivity and carbon - cycle feedbacks, we might succeed in
limiting surface warming to 2 - 3 °C.
Unfortunately, there is limited evidence as to whether and to what extent differential air - sea
surface warming occurs in the real climate system.
The suspected triggers for accelerated ice discharge on both continents
include surface warming and melt runoff, ocean warming, and circulation changes.
The growing body of scientific evidence indicates that this negative phase has played a heavy role in driving an approximately 15 - year old slowdown in
worldwide surface warming.
This is exactly what would be expected from
surface warming mediated by greenhouse gases or any other warming mechanism.
Phrases with «surface warming»