Sentences with phrase «to measure the warming»
"To measure the warming" means to collect data and evaluate how much the temperature of something, like the Earth or a region, is increasing over time. Full definition
We have directly measured warming of the oceans, for example, where about 90 percent of the human - caused heat has gone.
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Figure 8: Measuring warming trends with different start year leads to a different rate of warming, but the long - term trend remains unchanged.
The team measured warming effects on CO2 uptake by plants and release by plants and microbes.
The goal should be to measure the warming caused by anthropogenic doubling of CO2.
Because some global temperature records only begin in 1880, the period 1880 to 1899 is the easiest «pre-industrial» baseline for measuring warming.
And inquiring oceanographers want to know, where can they go in the South Atlantic to measure warm SURFACE currents that cross the equator?
An updated temperature clock shows the warming the UN's panel predicted in its 2001 Third Assessment Report, compared with measured warming from then till 2015.
We can measure warming by measuring temperatures; however, obtaining an accurate reading of the Earth's temperature is complicated.
If one starts to measure a warming trend from a much warmer year, the rate of warming is bound to be different from the long term trend, simply due to the starting point (Figure 8).
However, the gap between the calculated and measured warming is not due to systematic errors of the models, as the skeptics had suspected, but because there are always random fluctuations in Earth's climate.
WHITEHOUSE: I do come from an ocean state, and we do measure the rise in the sea level and we measure the warming of Narragansett Bay and we measure the change in PH. It's serious for us, Senator.
We also have various tools which have measured the warming of the Earth's oceans.
In the Times article, he's thrown down a gauntlet to remaining skeptics, demanding that they find any alternate explanation for the measured warming:
The measured warming rate, represented by the green zone, is manifestly less than the warming rate since 1990, even though CO2 concentration has risen throughout.
What led Steig et al astray was the desire to «explain» discrepancies between projected GHG driven warming in Antarctica and measured warming; confirmation bias did the rest.
We also have various tools which have measured the warming of the Earth's oceans.
That would be cooler than the Little Ice Age and as the measured warming trend decreases you must believe that this long term cooling trend is getting worse.
«My position has been that there is no debate that the earth has warmed over the past 100 + years, but that the magnitude of the measured warming and the cause (s) remain in debate.
Never - the-less, despite heroic attempts to posit some offsetting cooling effect which is masking this warming, few people believe we have seen any such historic warming, and the measured warming is more like 0.6 C. And some of this is likely due to the fact that the solar activity was at a peak in the late 20th century, rather than just Co2.
Muller said his team would submit to peer - reviewed journals data that «measure the warming with more precision than in the past.»
«They appear to have adjusted the budget upward based on the idea that there has been less observed warming than suggested by the climate models, but that is not actually true if you do the comparison properly,» he wrote, citing the need to measure the warming of the Arctic properly and account for the effect of aerosols.