Sentences with phrase «temperature over the past decades»

It finds that global temperatures over the past decade have «continued to rise rapidly,» despite large year - to - year fluctuations associated with the tropical El Niño — La Niña cycles.

As for the interpretation of the TOA fluxes and temperatures over the past decade, this is a fascinating problem that I expect to come back to eventually in other posts.

The point is that focusing on temperatures over the past decade (as the fake skeptics constantly do) is pointless to begin with, and that we should be examining longer, statistically significant trends.

The data still reflected a stalling of global temperatures over the past decade, and the study's attempt to rule out one of the main concerns sceptics have about the way temperature data is recorded appear to have some serious shortcomings.

Some amount (though certainly not all) of the flattening of temperatures over the past decade has certainly been caused by the rapid increase in industrial activity in Asia, fueled greatly by the burning of coal and a measured increase in anthropogenic aerosols.

Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer.5 The hottest days and nights have become hotter and more frequent.6 7 In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50 - fold.8 Over the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likely.

are quite adamant in stating that there has been nothing resembling a flatlining of global mean temperature over the past decade

bender, the climate scientists and climate modelers who work for the same organization I do are quite adamant in stating that there has been nothing resembling a flatlining of global mean temperature over the past decade.

The decadal - scale variability reflected in the temperature reconstruction from tree rings may well be superimposed over this warmer baseline, but the warmth still would not likely match the observed average maximum temperatures over the past decade (17.54 °C mean maximum average for 1999 — 2008, Fort Valley, AZ, Western Regional Climate Center)(Table S1).

Figure 2 is GISS's estimate of temperatures over the past decade.

Not exact matches

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range of plausible emissions, the global temperature will increase at an average rate of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.

Meanwhile, average air temperatures in the region rose 1.5 °C over the past 5 decades, nearly twice the global average.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

Over the past two decades (from 1995 to 2014), Vermont has experienced the highest winter temperatures observed in the historical record, according to the National Climate Assessment Summary for Vermont.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

A team of researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Society found that over the past 166 years, the country's average monthly temperatures have increased by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a 0.14 C change per decade.

Both theories hinge on the hotter, drier temperatures experienced in the West over the past two decades, conditions expected to deepen under climate change.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

«Over the past several decades, we've seen temperatures warming and carbon dioxide increasing, and our study found that this tropical forest has responded to that increase by producing more flowers.»

«Some fungal outbreaks over the past couple of decades, such as Dothistroma needle blight, could likely have been anticipated by tracking how temperature and precipitation were changing together,» said Mahony, who has worked as a forester in British Columbia for 10 years and has witnessed the impacts of climate change on the ground.

They found that AP increased faster than air temperature (AT) over land in the past few decades, especially in the low latitude areas, and the rise is expected to continue in the future.

While the study suggests past surges in temperature have boosted conflicts, it doesn't necessarily follow that steady warming due to climate change over the coming decades will have the same effect.

If this rapid warming continues, it could mean the end of the so - called slowdown — the period over the past decade or so when global surface temperatures increased less rapidly than before.

Historical records show temperatures have typically fluctuated up or down by about 0.2 °F per decade over the past 1,000 years.

This means that if the GCR - warming hypothesis is correct, this increase in GCRs should actually be causing global cooling over the past five decades, and particularly cold temperatures in recent years.

Over the past 30 years, the agency said, October temperatures have been rising by 0.65 °F (0.43 °C) per decade, faster than any other month except September.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

Ocean temperatures have been rising about 0.12 degrees Celsius per decade on average over the past 50 years.

Ocean temperatures experience interannual variability and over the past 3 decades of global warming have had several short periods of cooling.

Tropical Andes temperature increased at a rate of at least.1 degrees C per decade since 1939, and the rate has more than tripled over the past 25 years.

Jacob (and many, many others) seem to think that if model A, when run from 1900 to present, predicts the relatively flat, global average surface temperature record over the past decade, is a better match to reality than model B which does not.

Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now.1, 2

If one plots the records from GISS, HADCru, RSS and UAH; GISS is the outlier, and three of the four primary global temperature measuring systems show a decrease over the most recent six years and a downward trend over the past decade; not that this establishes a significant trend yet.

The above model results have significant implications because the observed air - temperature trend over the elevated Himalayas has accelerated to between 0.15 — 0.3 K per decade18 during the past several decades.

On a related issue — the temperature in Almeria, Spain (southeast corner), which has the world's greatest concentration of greenhouses, with reflective roofs (seen from space), the temperature is said to have dropped 0.3 C over the past few decades, while in the rest of Spain, it has risen 0.6 C.

In 2005, leading hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel (MIT) published an analysis showing that the power of Atlantic hurricanes has strongly increased over the past decades, in step with temperature.

Preliminary calculations * show that surface temperatures ** averaged over the globe in 2004 were the fourth highest (and the past decade was the warmest) since measurements began in 1861.

Research to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters shows that over the past decade the number of record hot days has been double the number of record cold days: The research was carried out by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate Central, The Weather Channel, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and examined temperature records going back to the 1950s.

Despite its fundamental problems, Spencer's internal variability hypothesis was probably the best alternative presented to this point, and Dessler drove another nail into its coffin by demonstrating what a small effect clouds have had on global temperature changes over the past decade.

Thus, the decadal increase in temperature has been more like.17 to.20 degrees per decade, which is unprecedented perhaps over the past 100,000 years.

Only the natural warming of the 2015 - 2016 El Nino has caused any increase in temperature trend over the past 2 decades.

According to the Pew Research Center: «Nearly seven - in - ten (69 %)[Americans] say there is solid evidence that the earth's average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades, up six points since November 2011 and 12 points since 2009.»

However, over the past decade, the warming of surface air temperatures has slowed.

Yes, if something is amiss here, I would place my bet on the methodology behind the finding that the earth» s temperature has not risen significantly over the past decade.

Your formula implies that about half the increase in CO2 (the 0.95 constant) over the past decades is a constant (whatever the cause), and the other halve is caused by the overall temperature increase vs. a zero level.

In March 2009, Michaels, under the auspices of the Cato Institute, circulated a draft advertisement that stated: «Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now... The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.»

Frankly with all of these effects acting in the cooling direction, it's amazing that surface temperatures continued to warm over the past decade, but they did.

Nevertheless, temperatures in recent decades exceed the uncertainty range over the past 400 years.

The black line shows the global temperature change, clearly going up over the past few decades (if they showed it from even farther in the past, the rise would be even steeper).