Sentences with phrase «twentieth century warming took»

Checking pre-satellite era temperatures we find that the first half of twentieth century warming took place between 1910 and the start of the Second World War.There was no warming from the end of that period until 1998, a stretch of more than fifty years, while carbon dioxide kept increasing.

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100 years from now there will be a name for the 21st Century, after the Terrible Twentieth — my nomination is the Uncertain Century — our grandchildren will wonder why it took so long to connect global warming with global warring, and will see Naomi Klein's new book Disaster Capitalism as the herald & hallmark for the warring and the warming and the harming ahead

The warming of surface temperature that has taken place during the past 20 years is undoubtedly real, and it is at a rate substantially larger than the average warming during the twentieth century.