Sentences with phrase «temperatures over the last few decades»

-LSB-...] blog by global warming advocate Michael Mann, creator of the now - discredited «hockey stick» graph that purported to show a sharp spike in global temperatures over the last few decades.

Not exact matches

«I would say it is significant that temperatures of the most recent decade exceed the warmest temperatures of our reconstruction by 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit, having few — if any — precedents over the last 11,000 years,» Marsicek says.

As on the Peninsula, temperatures over the WAIS have risen significantly in the last few decades, but this is a symptom, rather than a cause.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

«Average temperature in the West rose by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last few decades,» researcher Phil van Mantgem said.

I would say it is significant that temperatures of the most recent decade exceed the warmest temperatures of our reconstruction by 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit, having few — if any — precedents over the last 11,000 years.

Despite the extreme cold of the last ice age, the BRT reported «more than 20 so - called Dansgaard - Oeschger oscillations have been documented... each with rapid warming to near inter-glacial temperatures over just a few decades.»

The scientific pivot to cooling confirms what many have thought and said over the last few decades: human CO2 emissions do have a warming influence on global temperatures but, with that said, it is a minor factor that is easily overwhelmed by both solar / cosmic and natural earthly forces.

Following a warming trend early in the 20th century and mid-century cooling, surface air temperatures in the Arctic have shown a strong increase over the last few decades, warming at about twice the global average.

While surface temperature show a significant warming over western Himalayas in the last few decades, the observed regional precipitation changes are irregular and not spatially coherent.

I presume that's why he posted the comment he did: if a reconstruction of the temperature record fails to show warming for the Arctic over the last few decades, it's probably suspect.