Sentences with phrase «term rate of global warming»

«Data from the Met Office shows that the long - term rate of global warming has now returned to the level seen in the second half of the 20th century.»

Not exact matches

Schneider's approach to climate policy, comes up during a discussion of the enduring uncertainty surrounding the most consequential aspects of global warming, particularly the near - term rate at which sea levels will rise as ice sheets melt and seawater warms.

This single pattern has a long - term global warming rate of 0.06 deg C per decade and an oscillation due to ocean cycles (http://bit.ly/nfQr92) of 0.5 deg C every 30 years as shown in the following two graphs.

So I asked Mr. Knappenberger to test the models» agreement with long - term observations using a new «third» scenario in which internal variability once again «enhances» the «externally forced trend» and global warming resumes at the 1984 - 1998 rate of 0.265 ºC / decade.

I'm not for a moment suggesting this makes global warming go away, only it might slow the rate of change down - a bit - in the short term (perhaps the average transit time of deep currents).

Considering all the short - term factors identified by the scientific community that acted to slow the rate of global warming over the past two decades (volcanoes, ocean heat uptake, solar decreases, predominance of La Niñas, etc.) it is likely the temperature increase would have accelerated in comparison to the late 20th Century increases.

Santer et al. also debunked the «skeptic» myths that global warming is just due to internal variability, and that a short - term slowing in the rate of warming means global warming has magically stopped.

Look close - indeed there are at least 12 previous presidential terms that experienced global warming rates (a.k.a., acceleration) greater than anything experienced over the last 6.5 years of Obama's administration.

The planet's deep oceans at times may absorb enough heat to flatten the rate of global warming for periods of as long as a decade even in the midst of longer - term warming, according to a new analysis led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

The statistics say that since 1970, there has been no change in the global warming trend, and all the fluctuations in short term rates of change are due to noise.

The current rate of global warming, faster than any observed in the geological record, is already having a major effect in many parts of the world in terms of droughts, fires, and storms.

First, the chart on the right represents satellite short and long - term acceleration plots used in the prior article; the chart of the left plots the short and long - term warming per century acceleration rates derived from the HC4 land / sea global dataset.

While the rate of global warming has slowed in the past several years, possibly due to natural climate variability, the long - term temperature trend clearly shows that we're living on a warming planet.

[WWF have claimed that the long - term costs could be offset by energy savings in all areas, but this appears to be based largely on wishful thinking and, at any rate, no discounted cash flow analysis was made to include the investment cost, nor was any estimate provided for the amount of global warming that would be averted.]