Sentences with phrase «term cooling»

The fact that the observed long term trend shows warming strongly suggests that there isn't an underlying long term cooling trend and the overall warming is unlikely to be due to natural variability.

So the point to remember when considering short term cooling trends in surface temperature records is that the atmosphere is only one small part of a planet which is in energy imbalance.

Not only is the sun not contributing to global warming, it has had a slight, long term cooling effect.

Nevertheless, surface temperature sometimes shows short term cooling periods.

The only thing missing here is how this works when the system is seeking a long - term cooler state.

Surface temperatures can show short - term cooling when heat is exchanged between the atmosphere and the ocean, which has a much greater heat capacity than the air.

Don't move your breastmilk to a cooler because your freezer is the best, most reliable, long - term cooling location even without power.

The relative contribution of each factor to the long - term cooling varied in the different regions.

After all, at the same time you point to the current weak sun as some type of long - term cooling agent.

The fact that the observed long term trend shows warming strongly suggests that there isn't an underlying long term cooling trend and the overall warming is unlikely to be due to natural variability.

Nevertheless, both years were still among the warmest years on record and would have been even hotter without this short - term cooling effect.

The early 80's and early 90's both display short term cooling trends.

We know the planet is continually heating due to increasing carbon dioxide but that surface temperature sometimes have short term cooling periods.

Volcanic eruptions (indicated in red by the stratospheric optical depth) impose a short term cooling influence of several years.

There have been large volcanic eruptions that have contributed to short - term cooling of Earth from the SO2 that reaches the stratosphere, which is what happened following the Philippines Mount Pinatubo eruption in June 1991.

The main point is that just as surface temperatures has experienced periods of short term cooling during long term global warming, similarly the ocean shows short term variability during a long term warming trend.

These multi-centennial cycles of climate variability will continue over the next several millennia until the true underlying Holocene interglacial long - term cooling begins to take Earth back into the next glacial period.

Containers of sauerkraut and other types of fermented vegetables were often stored in root cellars, caves, and sometimes even buried in the ground for long - term cool storage.

Setting aside his short - term cooling projections, Dr. Easterbrook's assessment of looming risks related to energy appears to be substantially aligned with that of, for example, John Holdren, President Obama's nominee for science adviser (whose confirmation is still being held up by one or more senators).

Sequestering carbon by planting forests and as «bio-char» — charcoal added back to the soil — have greater short - term cooling potential than ocean fertilization.

The «global dimming» effect (created by the aerosol spraying insanity) can create short term cooling scenarios, it comes at the cost of a much worsened overall warming.

Observations of recent global warming, short - term cooling after major volcanic eruptions, cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum and other periods in the historical record, and the seasonal variation in climate, all provide some information which helps to determine the value of climate sensitivity.

Climate engineering can and does create massive short term cooling anomalies at the cost of a far worsened overall warming.

As Figure 2 shows, the unadjusted data (pink) have tended to fall towards the lower end of IPCC projections in recent years, primarily due to the preponderance of La Niña events and an extended solar cycle minimum, which have short - term cooling influences on global surface temperatures.

A huge amount of data representing 44 states and 101 reporting locations from the US shows we are in the middle of a «short term cooling period», the latest short term warming period having ended about 1998.

rbateman (21:04:36): You wrote, «The only thing missing here is how this works when the system is seeking a long - term cooler state.»

«The AP1000 design, therefore, meets the regulatory requirements» for long - term cooling during an anticipated design basis accident, it said.

The peer reviewed journals in oceanography show many long term cooling effects of oceans that show not just slowing of warming but actual reversing and to date, significant trends in reduction in warming.

«A series of elections in the Netherlands, Germany and France later this year may also potentially have at least a short - term cooling effect in these countries.»

Most of this work has been carried out in birds, and shows that new species appear more or less continuously, regardless of the dramatic climatic oscillations of the Quaternary or the longer term cooling that preceded it (Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol 20, p 57).

James Zachos at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues, have shown that the Earth has been on a long - term cooling trend for the past 65 million years (Science, vol 292, p 686).

The planet entered a long - term cooling trend.

In prior climate change studies, long - term cooling has been difficult to reconcile with known global controls that would have forced warming and climate models that consistently simulate long - term warming.

We would be in a long - term cooling trend.

But the short - term cooling would still have been devastating, he says, and might have been too brief to show up in Lane's temperature record.

But the simulations also reveal that the technique, which mimics the short - term cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, could chill the planet if overdone.

Emissions of both sulfur and black carbon will go down with the switch, which means that the power industry will lose small short - term cooling and warming effects, in addition to gaining the larger long - term cooling effect of lower CO2 emissions.