It was an unusually wet,
unusually warm evening, but we kept going.
Not exact matches
I live on the top floor of our apartment, so
unusually warm temperatures are a real problem,
even during the winter.
As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria plowed through
unusually warm oceans this summer, each one broke records, startling
even the scientists who study extreme weather.
Even though this Fall season has been
unusually warm, these pancakes definitely make it seem cozy and remind me why this time of the year is my favorite!
It was an
unusually warm season,
even for Florida standards, so we took full advantage and went to the beach as much as we could.
Even during the winter, you always get a few
unusually warm days when mosquito's can rear their ugly heads.
So it wasn't surprising to read the takeaway line in an op - ed article over the weekend by Judah Cohen, a commercial weather analyst, on the seeming paradox of
unusually wintry winters in many populous parts of the Northern Hemisphere
even as the world
warms:
Anecdotally, New Zealand has seen more jellyfish migrating down in the last few years and
unusually warm seawater (swimming starts earlier than 5 years ago
even) and people who've lived here since the 1950s say that today's cyclones were unheard of back then.
What happened here appears on the surface at least to have been a willful manipulation of data in a scientific report by an editor of a venerable scientific publication in order to sell a questionable preconceived notion (i.e. that it is
unusually warm today in at least the past 1300 years or so — or
even the past 10,000 years).
Driven by efficiency gains, an
unusually warm winter and a switch from coal to natural gas, energy - related carbon dioxide emissions actually declined 3.8 % in 2012
even though the U.S. economy grew 2.8 % that year, according to new data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Department of Energy.
There were a few abnormally harsh winters across the northern hemisphere, when the climate scientists had forecast
unusually mild ones, «barbeque summers» that never materialized and suddenly
even the global network of thermometers no longer supported the idea of continued
warming — the planet had stopped
warming.
Even if next winter is
warmer than this past winter, which is not a guarantee, as soon as the Pacific Ocean returns to normal and El Niño resides,
unusually cold and snowy winters will return.
«Take
unusually warm Atlantic ocean surface temperatures (temperatures are in the 70s off the coast of Virginia), add a cold Arctic outbreak (something we'll continue to get
even as global
warming proceeds), mix them together and you get huge amounts of energy and moisture, and monster snowfalls, like we're about to see here,» said Michael Mann, a climate researcher who directs Penn State University's earth systems science center.
Even just acknowledging more openly the incredible magnitude of the deep structural uncertainties that are involved in climate - change analysis — and explaining better to policymakers that the artificial crispness conveyed by conventional IAM - based CBAs [Integrated Assessment Model — Cost Benefit Analyses] here is especially and
unusually misleading compared with more ordinary non-climate-change CBA situations — might go a long way toward elevating the level of public discourse concerning what to do about global
warming.
This suggests to me that the core Team had internalized belief, that the world was
warming unusually in recent years, and that they were on the case, to such an extent that any evidence against this had to be hidden from the unwashed, their colleagues, and
even from their own perception and memory.
But when you look at the long time Annual Average Temperatures back to 1900 or
even further back, 1998 is only one of several
unusually warm years, and looses it's first place ranking to several other years.
In 2004 when a group of scientists published evidence that the solar activity of the 20th century had been
unusually high, they nevertheless concluded that «
even under the extreme assumption that the Sun was responsible for all the global
warming prior to 1970, at most 30 % of the strong
warming since then can be of solar origin.»
Perhaps it has something to do with the
unusually warm springlike weather we've been enjoying (she says
even as a huge March snow storm is coming tomorrow!