Sentences with phrase «temperature histories in»

I am not sure how anyone can look at James Hansen's graph of global temperature history in his 1988 presentation and say that there was a long term warming trend at that time.
Secondly, there is no «sceptics» reconstruction, no opposing temperature history in the peer reviewed literature.
Possible causes mentioned are a different time / temperature history in the combustion chamber as well as the different fuel composition and thus different fuel decomposition and soot generation processes.
Readers might perform a little thought experiment: suppose that Spencer and Christy had published a temperature history in which they claimed that 1934 was the warmest U.S. year on record and then it turned out that they had been a computer programming error opposite to the one that Hansen made, that Wentz and Mears discovered there was an error of 0.15 deg C in the Spencer and Christy results and, after fiixing this error, it turned out that 2006 was the warmest year on record.
It is the water itself that tells the temperature history in the ice cores.

Not exact matches

The decade we've just come through was the warmest on record in human history: it saw record incidence of floods and drought (both of which you'd expect with higher temperatures).
With an average temperature of 77.6 degrees, 3.3 degrees above the 20th century average, the drought that has plagued the Midwest all summer has now landed its place in history.
In a report that surprised virtually nobody, researchers declared last month to be the hottest in U.S. history, beating out 1936's Dust Bowl that had held onto the top spot despite the past two decades of gradually warming temperatureIn a report that surprised virtually nobody, researchers declared last month to be the hottest in U.S. history, beating out 1936's Dust Bowl that had held onto the top spot despite the past two decades of gradually warming temperaturein U.S. history, beating out 1936's Dust Bowl that had held onto the top spot despite the past two decades of gradually warming temperatures.
El Niño Now Among Strongest in Modern History; Unusually Warm and Unsettled Conditions Persist in California: Not only is 2015 California's warmest year on record to date (beating the previous record set all the way back in 2014), but the details of the persistently elevated temperatures have been particularly oppressive...
The temperature this morning is hovering in the high 30s as pouring rain is doing work to ensure both runners and spectators alike leave one of the most storied races in American history with hypothermia.
From Qatar's summer temperature to human rights issues, and from the country's lack of football history to the number of workers who have so far died in making the tournament possible, the decision has been met with uproar.
The over / under for temperature was set at 34 degrees, which would have been the coldest in Super Bowl history.
It can even let you read 12 readings in history, which could help you determine if the patient's temperature is going down or not.
The thermometer also allows you to track your child's temperature in history.
Over planetary history, warm - blood animals have outperformed cold - blooded animals in adapting to changing temperatures
The consequence: either the analysed climate archives supply inaccurate temperature signals, or the tested models underestimate the regional climate fluctuations in Earth's recent history.
The new normals, which will be released later in the year, will drop the 1970s — a decade marked by cool temperatures — and add the hottest recorded decade in history, the 2000s.
6 As the crystal grows around that speck, its shape is altered by humidity, temperature, and wind; the history of a flake's descent to Earth is recorded in its intricate design.
A graph of the warming trend largely replicates the so - called «hockey stick,» a previous reconstruction that showed relatively stable temperatures suddenly spiking upward in recent history.
«If you went back to 1850 and repeated history» — meaning the same volcanic eruptions, the same solar variability, the same greenhouse gas emissions — «the overall temperature increase would be about the same, but you would end up with somewhat different temperature records due to the inherent randomness in the climate.»
The past 12 months have been the warmest in Australia's recorded history, where average temperature has warmed by 1.6 - degrees F since 1910
For the first time in history, a generation was able to know the thrill of watching temperatures climb toward 100 degrees over the course of a sweltering summer.
On August 24, 2003, a fortnight after the temperature in London had climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history, D. E. Maggs of Kingswood Avenue, Queens Park, walked into the British Natural History Museum carrying a small glahistory, D. E. Maggs of Kingswood Avenue, Queens Park, walked into the British Natural History Museum carrying a small glaHistory Museum carrying a small glass jar.
«It would produce a climate change unknown in recorded history — colder than the little ice age,» Robock says, referring to the period between the 14th and 19th centuries when a 1.5 °F drop below today's temperatures caused crop failures, famines, and political unrest in northern Europe.
«Any life emerging during the Hadean eon likely needed to be resistant to high temperatures, and could have survived such a violent period in Earth's history by thriving in niches deep underground or in the ocean's crust.»
«What we take for granted on this planet, such as oceans and continents, would not exist if the internal temperature of Earth had not been in a certain range, and this means that the beginning of Earth's history can not be too hot or too cold.»
The temperature history of the first millennium C.E. is sparsely documented, especially in the Arctic.
Using a cutting - edge research technique, UCLA researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a region that plays a major role in determining climate around the world.
The system is based on the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response (AIR) score, which includes the following parameters: pain in right iliac fossa, history of vomiting, rebound tenderness or muscular guarding, body temperature, white blood cell count, proportion of neutrophil granulocytes, and C - reactive protein concentration.
In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todaIn a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than today.
In late spring, the whole planet sweltered: Average land temperature for May was the highest in recorded historIn late spring, the whole planet sweltered: Average land temperature for May was the highest in recorded historin recorded history.
«Our results show that Earth has had a moderate temperature through virtually all of its history, and that is attributable to weathering feedbacks — they do a good job at maintaining a habitable climate,» said first author Joshua Krissansen - Totton, a UW doctoral student in Earth and space sciences.
Slush Dogs For the first time in the Iditarod's 44 - year history, organizers imported snow for the sled dog race via the Alaska Railroad, as winter and spring temperatures climbed 9 degrees F above average, shattering a decades - old record.
An analysis of temperature through early Earth's history, published the week of April 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports more moderate average temperatures throughout the billions of years when life slowly emerged on Earth.
Long - term flowering records in Massachusetts, started by Henry David Thoreau, reveal that high spring temperatures in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest flowering in the eastern U.S. in recorded history.
«We have known that populations of these crabs can explode following periods of warmer temperatures,» says Nathaniel Evans of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
Venus may have had a shallow liquid - water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
The race was the hottest in its history as the temperature rose to more than 24C, beating the previous record for the race of...
«We grew teosinte in the conditions that it encountered 10,000 years ago during the early Holocene period: temperatures 2 - 3 degrees Celsius cooler than today's with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at around 260 parts per million,» said Dolores Piperno, senior scientist and curator of archaeobotany and South American archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who led the project.
This signature can be measured in boreholes and then analyzed to reconstruct the surface temperature history over the past several centuries.
Cycles that have been largely unwavering during modern human history are disrupted by substantial changes in temperature and precipitation.William B Gail, in New York Times, 19 Apr 2016
Together, the three scientific methods allow researchers to estimate both temperature and moisture histories over the last 5,000 years in great detail.
Cycles that have been largely unwavering during modern human history are disrupted by substantial changes in temperature and precipitation.
On the 15th and 16th, the temperature rose to 73 degrees, 22 C. Sacramento set more record highs in January 2014 than at any time in it's history.
Third, using a «semi-empirical» statistical model calibrated to the relationship between temperature and global sea - level change over the last 2000 years, we find that, in alternative histories in which the 20th century did not exceed the average temperature over 500-1800 CE, global sea - level rise in the 20th century would (with > 95 % probability) have been less than 51 % of its observed value.
It took him 18 months to build the low temperature, ultra high vacuum scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) that he used to claim his place in history as the first person ever to move and control a single atom.
Different approaches to reconstructing past temperature for this season include the production of detailed year - by - year gridded maps and wider regional integrations in the form of subcontinental and quasi-hemispheric-scale histories of temperature variability spanning some six centuries.
Here, we tested the effects ocean acidification in combination with elevated temperature on early life history stages of several spawning acroporids from the Great Barrier Reef.
The history of the Himalayas broadly fits the long - term decrease in Earth's average temperature since the mid-Eocene, 40 million years ago.
NASA and climate scientists throughout the world have said, however, that the years starting since 1998 have been the hottest in all recorded temperature history.
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