Sentences with phrase «temperatures than the former»

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The former is likely to overestimate the true global surface air temperature trend (since the oceans do not warm as fast as the land), while the latter may underestimate the true trend, since the air temperature over the ocean is predicted to rise at a slightly higher rate than the ocean temperature.

The former is likely to overestimate the true global surface air temperature trend (since the oceans do not warm as fast as the land), while the latter may underestimate the true trend, since the air temperature over the ocean is predicted to rise at a slightly higher rate than the ocean temperature.

There are two main explanations for the 1940s to 1970s global temperature stagnation (or slight cooling): aerosol forcing and the negative phase of an ocean cycle known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO), with the former contributing more than the latter.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

If the decade 1990 - 2000 saw warming of - say -.5 C and the decade 2000 - 2009 saw cooling of - say -.1 C, then the latter decade would be warmer on average than the former, even though the ending temperature was.1 C lower than the start.

I don't believe the former happens because I believe the temperature at which black body radiation peaks in the visible is much higher than the temperature of the earth (approximately 300 Kelvins).

But during the former period, the CO2 concentration was about 20 % lower than during the later one, and fossil fuels consumption was about 5 times lower... This falsifies the hypothesis that CO2 is the main driver of temperature variations.

What is being touted as a scientific scandal is more about data handling than what rising temperatures show, according to phone and email interviews with more than two dozen experts on the issue, including the former government scientist, whose blogging Saturday reignited a debate.

The rates of thermosteric sea level changes are closely correlated with those of reconstructed sea level changes with correlation coefficients larger than 0.8, but the former has smaller amplitudes than the latter, indicating contributions to total sea level change from processes other than upper ocean temperature changes examined here.

«The reversal of the trend since 1940 - 50 may have been greater than currently accepted sea surface temperature figures indicate because of the general adoption since the same time of water temperatures measured in the intake to the ships» engines instead of by the former canvas bucket method.