Sentences with phrase «term global average surface temperature trends»
The C.R.U. is only one of several groups who are analyzing the long term global average surface temperature trends drawing from mostly the same raw observed data.
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(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.
Since global average surface temperature exhibits a long - term sinusoidal trend, one can display either a positive or negative trend with careful start and end point choices.
They clearly have not «proved» skill at predicting in a hindcast mode, changes in climate statistics on the regional scale, and even in terms of the global average surface temperature trend, in recent years they have overstated the positive trend.
(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.
Although there might be «slowdowns and accelerations in warming lasting a decade or more,» they write, the clear long - term trend is «substantial increases in global average surface temperature and important changes in regional climate.»