Sentences with phrase «trends of a warmer planet»

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports: «In 2013, the vast majority of worldwide climate indicators − greenhouse gases, sea levels, global temperatures, etc − continued to reflect trends of a warmer planet.»

Not exact matches

While a 16 - year - period is too short a time to draw conclusions about trends, the researchers found that warming continued at most locations on the planet and during much of the year, but that warming was offset by strong cooling during winter months in the Northern Hemisphere.

That's not enough to counteract an overall negative trend for the country, which, if the planet warmed by 6 °C from preindustrial levels, could suffer damage worth 6 % of its gross domestic product, the team reports today in Science.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The locations of weather stations, changes in instruments, the siting of weather stations in warmer urban areas, changes in land cover and other issues have all been cited as issues affecting the temperature trends often used to show that our planet is in fact warming.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

This trend continues a long - term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

As has been seen year after year, the warming of the Earth is causing major changes in many aspects of the planet's climate, and 2014 was yet another year that showed this trend in stark relief, a report released Thursday says.

Even if we focus exclusively on global surface temperatures, Cowtan & Way (2013) shows that when we account for temperatures across the entire globe (including the Arctic, which is the part of the planet warming fastest), the global surface warming trend for 1997 — 2015 is approximately 0.14 °C per decade.

That trend is projected to continue as the planet warms and could put coastal cities at risk and cause trillions of dollars in damage.

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

And besides that, we don't need the tree rings to know the planet is warming, the last 4 months are riding the top of the trend as the warmest in the instrumental record.

Isn't this a surreal transition time when many people continue with business as usual, chomping up the comforts of our world and choosing to ignore every trend except maybe global warming, and others feel that the life signs of our planet are declining so fast that it's already too late no matter what we do.

The recent warming has been more pronounced in the Arctic Eurasia than in many other regions on our planet, but Franzke (2012) argues that only one out of 109 temperature records from this region exhibits a significant warming trend.

There is every reason to believe the record warm year of 1998 will soon be broken, given the trend of changes we have been seeing occurring throughout the planet in the last several years.

Daniel Crawford, a cello - playing undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, came up with a new way to describe the trend and variations that both characterize our warming climate — a solo composition, «Song of Our Warming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Swarming climate — a solo composition, «Song of Our Warming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space SWarming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Unlike a belief in leprechauns, there is a preponderance of evidence that CO2 warms the planet and that the anthropogenic contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere is causing the observed warming trend.

-- tendency of the * planet to warm — The UAH data is v5.4, v5.5 limits the recent deviance — «no hidden either warming or cooling jumps» reads awkwardly — «But despite the fact that August 1997 was shamelessly cherry - picked by David Rose because it gives the lowest warming trend to the present of any point before 2000» — It was picked to show 15 years, not the lowest trend.

James E. Hansen, the head of Goddard and an outspoken campaigner for prompt cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions, explained that the decades - long global warming trend and patterns of warming remain consistent with a growing influence on climate from the planet's building blanket of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

The planet's temperature goes through constant, small fraction - of - a-degree fluctuations above and below the long term trend line of natural global warming.

Difference between nighttime lows and daytime highs decreasing — no they aren't Warming of the planet since 1880 — same trend since LIA 40 % rise in Atmospheric CO2 since ~ 1800 — has little effect Underlying physics of the Greenhouse effect — you don't appear to understand them, and neither do modellers, which is why their predictions have been so wrong

Markey: What I am saying is that this warming is something that while it may have variability, year - to - year in specific parts of the planet that the trend is straight up.

One passage written by Heartland reads, «Scientists who study the issue say it is impossible to tell if the recent small warming trend is natural, a continuation of the planet's recovery from the more recent «Little Ice Age,» or unnatural, the result of human greenhouse gas emissions.»

Reconstructing this spatial variability will help develop a more precise view of how past changes in climate have affected the planet, Briner says, providing a guide for how the current global warming trend may unfold.

«Despite colder than average weather in any one part of the world,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt, «temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we have seen over the last 40 years.»

The lack of a statistically significant warming trend in GMST does not mean that the planet isn't warming, firstly because GMST doesn't include the warming of the oceans (see many posts on ocean heat content) and secondly because a lack of a statistically significant warming trend doesn't mean that it isn't warming, just that it isn't warming at a sufficiently high rate to rule out the possibility of there being no warming over that period.

Based on previously reported analysis of the observations and modelling studies this is neither inconsistent with a warming planet nor unexpected; and computation of global temperature trends over longer periods does exhibit statistically significant warming.

Likewise, the term «global warming» is somewhat problematic as well since the planet isn't warming uniformly — a few places have a short - lived cooling trends — and the word «warming» sounds downright cozy on a cold day, when, in fact, substantially heating of the atmosphere and ocean is happening.)

There are also growing concerns about trends for some other greenhouse gases — in particular, the second most - important man - made planet warmer, methane, the main constituent of natural gas.

The intensity of hurricanes and frequency of the strongest ones like Maria has also increased since the 1980s, a trend expected to continue as the planet warms.

Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..

That shock will be felt most especially by the world's climate alarmist Establishment, whose scientists and learned institutions have staked their reputation on the idea that CO2, not solar activity, is the prime driver of climate and that the planet is on a warming trend not a cooling one.

Small wonder, then, that the modelers» computer «reconstructions» of the planet's past climate conveniently wiped out the well - documented three - centuries - long Medieval Warming Period, as well as the subsequent 500 years of Little Ice Age — nor is it surprising that their terrifying computer prognostications in the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment failed to predict the next decade's absence of any global warming trend Warming Period, as well as the subsequent 500 years of Little Ice Age — nor is it surprising that their terrifying computer prognostications in the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment failed to predict the next decade's absence of any global warming trend warming trend at all.

In the U.S., we see a different trend: a much greater number of deniers who believe that there is no evidence that the planet is warming.

It appears that increases in atmospheric CO2 (and other GHG's) are contributing approximately 50 % of the recent warming trend on planet earth

«Many of the events that made 2012 such an interesting year are part of the long - term trends we see in a changing and varying climate — carbon levels are climbing, sea levels are rising, Arctic sea ice is melting, and our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place,» said Acting NOAA Administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D. «This annual report is well - researched, well - respected, and well - used; it is a superb example of the timely, actionable climate information that people need from NOAA to help prepare for extremes in our ever - changing environment.»

Just a nit, but Venus is an example of what happens to planets close to the sun - it is more likely that the added heat input caused the CO2 release than that a sharp rise in CO2 caused a runaway warming trend.

Moreover, while satellite and ground instrument record agree very well over Europe and United States where the best instruments are deployed there is not satisfactory agreement across most of the rest of the planet with satellite showing very little warming trend and instrument showing significant warming trend.

In this letter, we propose that the extensive winter NH extratropical cooling trend amidst a warming planet can not be explained entirely by internal variability of the climate system.

LOS ANGELES — The climate on Mars is showing a warming trend and recent images have shown the first evidence of seismic activity on Earth's neighbor planet, scientists said today.

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.

The basic idea seems to be that the strong Arctic warming trend of 1.5 C / decade by comparison with a global trend of 0.2 C / decade indicates that there's some regional effect which makes the difference from the rest of the planet.

Projections for the way in which our planet will be affected by the current trend of rapid planetary warming are dire.

Another sticky way of expressing this same idea is to examine the physical reason why there is a long - term warming trend - because the planet is building up heat.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

«It's generally been assumed that it's so big and so cold that it's probably immune to some of the warming trends we've seen across the planet,» said Chris Stokes, a professor at Durham University.

As I see it, you SkS folks (any many others) like to see the trends since 1970 completely man caused and a representative of the effective warming speed of the planet.

Global trends point to the world's oceans figuring much more prominently in meeting the foreseeable food and energy needs of a growing global population and a warming planet.