Sentences with phrase «warm areas of the globe»

The oceans were one of the clear warm areas of the globe during the year, particularly the Indian Ocean and the tropical Pacific Ocean, which was under the influence of an incredibly strong El Niño.

Not exact matches

«According to our projections, large areas of the globe are likely to warm up so quickly that, by the middle of this century, even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years,» said the study's lead author, Noah Diffenbaugh, in a Stanford University press release.

Ocean surfaces have warmed considerably over the last few years, and since oceans cover roughly tw0 - thirds of the globe's area, it is reasonable to examine how sea surface temperature evolution has played into the short - term evolution of GMST.

The globe is bathed in warm spots, with the small cold spot centered over the Great Lakes area being just one of a handful of blue spots on the world map.

Or a cold winter in one area might be balanced by an extremely warm winter in another part of the globe.

The new twist in this story is that the Arctic has been warming at at least double the pace of the rest of the globe, meaning that the difference in temperature between the Arctic and areas farther south has been shrinking.

Climate change refers to a change in the «average weather» of an area caused by the unnatural warming of the globe.

Once such an IPCC exposition of the assumptions, complications and uncertainties of climate models was constructed and made public, it would immediately have to lead, in my view, to more questions from the informed public such as what does calculating a mean global temperature change mean to individuals who have to deal with local conditions and not a global average and what are the assumptions, complications and uncertainties that the models contain when it comes to determining the detrimental and beneficial effects of a «global» warming in localized areas of the globe.

At any point in time, at anyplace on the globe, there could be significant warming, while significant cooling is simultaneously happening at another locale, and both can be associated with vast regional areas of insignificant temperature change.

Urban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioOF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof vegetation.

· A few areas of the globe have not warmed in recent decades, mainly over some parts of the Southern Hemisphere oceans and parts of Antarctica.

An advantage of compiling temperature records in this manner is that one could more easily see whether various areas of the globe (northern, southern hemishpere, equatorial or polar) are warming at different rates which would give further insight into wher the warming anthropogenic.

The increase in air temperature is not homogeneous throughout the globe — for instance, the Arctic is seeing a faster rate of warming than other areas.

The statement, «This fits within the context of a long - term warming trend both here and around the globe,» Crouch said is still misleading or plain wrong as the trend of US and Canadian annual temperatures has been declining for nearly two decades (17 years) or since 1998, North America which is cooling, not warming represents 16 % of global land areas

Please note in order to avoid perpetuating the mythology that colder than normal temps in some areas mean global warming is not happening — global warming affects the flow of the gulf stream among other things, meaning that while some areas of the globe become unusually hot, others can become unusually cold — witness recent killer freezes in Europe — global warming is to blame for these effects.

Nor have I seen evidence areas of the globe with warm climates have lower fatality rates than areas with cool climates.

Since UAH cover includes areas of the globe we expect are warming more dramatically than the areas covered by surface stations, we should not be surprised, as Cowtan & Way have demonstrated, to find UAH indicating faster warming.

The scientific evidence is unequivocal: There exist huge regional climate swaths of the globe that have mildly warmed in an unexceptional manner during the modern industrial / consumer era; and there exist multiple large areas that even lack any regional climate - significant modern warming whatsoever.

However, trends in temperature and salinity, «steric» processes, aren't unfolding equally across the globe, because some areas (of seawater) are warming and / or freshening more than others.

While there are areas, such as the extra-tropical Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean, where the GFDL model warms significantly more than has been observed, the anthropogenic climate change simulations do provide a plausible explanation of temperature trends over the last century over large areas of the globe.