During
the warm intervals of the middle Pliocene (3.3 to 3.0 million years ago), when there is medium confidence that global mean surface temperatures were 2 °C to 3.5 °C warmer than for pre-industrial climate and CO2 levels were between 250 and 450 ppm, sedimentary records suggest periodic deglaciation of West Antarctica and parts of East Antarctica.
In 2013, he returned to Oxford where much of his current research aims to document and understand past climate variability, particularly during exceptionally
warm intervals of Earth history, such as the Cretaceous.
«temperatures during
the warmest intervals of the Medieval Warm Period,» which they defined as occurring «some 900 to 1300 years ago, «were as warm as or slightly warmer than present day Greenland temperatures»
As indicated by the red line,
the warmest interval of the 20th century is not unique, having been eclipsed four times previous (see the shaded red circles) in the 373 - year record — once in the 17th century, twice in the 18th century and once in the nineteenth century.
Not exact matches
Microwave 1 cup reserved chocolate mixture in a microwave - safe bowl in 10 - second
intervals (or heat in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan
of simmering water), stirring occasionally, until
warmed through.
I
warm up for 10 minutes, then do 8 minutes
of interval / speed training, then I did another 30 minutes
of running.
«The most recent 10 - year
interval (1999 — 2008) was the
warmest of the past 200 decades,» they wrote.
They occurred over a very short time
interval immediately following onset
of Cretaceous global
warming, suggesting that the
warming destabilized gas hydrates and released a large burb
of methane.
«We're suggesting that's not even the case, and that it's one
of these hyper -
warm intervals because the bird's food sources and the whole part
of the ecosystem could not have survived in ice.»
DeConto and Pollard's study was motivated by reconstructions
of sea level rise during past
warm periods including the previous inter-glacial (around 125,000 years ago) and earlier
warm intervals like the Pliocene (around 3 million years ago).
The participants
warmed up for ten minutes at 70 per cent
of their maximum pulse, and then did four repetitions
of high intensity (85 - 95 per cent
of max pulse) four - minute
intervals.
Natural geochemical processes that result in the slow buildup
of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have caused past geologic
intervals of global
warming through the greenhouse effect
Over a simulated
interval of 200 million years, the inner planet slowly migrated even farther inward to become a «
warm Jupiter» orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Mercury does in our solar system, the researchers report online today in Science.
The conclusion
of that study was that we are now in that
interval's
warmest range
of temperatures, therefore adding support to the overwhelming evidence from other sources and models that man - made climate change is already well underway.
Analyzing the chemical composition
of those shells «acts like a fingerprinting» for the water's temperature, Hillenbrand said, enabling researchers to trace the
intervals when relatively
warm water welled up onto the continental shelf.
And it's possible that we are currently no
warmer than we were a thousand years ago, during the «Medieval
Warm Period» or «Medieval Optimum,» an interval of warm conditions known from historical records and indirect evidence like tree ri
Warm Period» or «Medieval Optimum,» an
interval of warm conditions known from historical records and indirect evidence like tree ri
warm conditions known from historical records and indirect evidence like tree rings.
This period doesn't fall even remotely within the
interval commonly referred to as the «Medieval
Warm Period» Instead, it actually falls within the heart
of the «Little Ice Age» itself!
Weaver, A.J., O.A. Saenko, P.U. Clark, and J.X. Mitrovica, 2003: Meltwater pulse 1A from Antarctica as a trigger
of the Bølling - Allerød
warm interval.
Similarly, one model reaches only 60 percent
of maximum
warming in the first century after the step increase, while another achieves 86 percent
of maximum
warming during this
interval.
The Paleocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is one
of the most intense and abrupt
intervals of global
warming in the geological record.
It also has a few terrific features that I'm really grooving on, not the least
of which are three
interval programs, each with 16 customizable
intervals (you can even name them:
warm - up, fast, slow, etc.).
After your
warm - up that's 15 minutes
of some pretty intense
interval training.
An easy to do
interval training program is to do a 5 - minute
warm - up followed by six
intervals of 30 - 60 seconds
of hard exercise, alternated with 60 seconds
of easy exercise.
You have 30 minutes in order to include the
intervals, and with a 10 minute
warm up and cool down each you'd have a total
of 10 + 30 + 10 = 50 minutes.
For just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday night and Saturday morning running a
warm up pace that makes me overheat, then starting the
interval workout which involves me sometimes running slower than the «
warm up pace «and watching the lithe people run away from me at incredible speeds, then «slinky - ing «forward while they run back for me on the recovery, watching them sprint away from me some more, and then eventually finding myself labouring up a hill to exit the river valley at the end
of the workout to find the group
of speedsters waiting to fist pound it out before we run back to the shop at a cool down pace which only makes me sweat even more.
Performing this in
intervals will allow your body to
warm up, and increase the flexibility and range
of motion with which you are able to perform the posture.
Sprint
interval training is a well - defined form
of HIIT, involving only 3 minutes
of activity per session, not including periods
of warm - up and cool - down.
After a thorough
warm up
of 5 - 10 minutes
of easy exercise, perform one short, half - speed, 10 - second
interval.
I have no indication
of this disease myself (for now), but I found high intensity
interval training helps very much, 3 times a week: 10 minutes: 2 min
warm up 30 seconds high intensity (heart beat 220 - age) 90 second moderate, two more cycle and 2 minutes moderate finishing off helps a lot.
The Protocol - 5 minute moderate jump rope for
warm up, 3 - 5 sets
of 10 - 30 second
intervals (waves, slams, throws, spirals, whips) and 45 - 60 seconds
of rest in between
intervals, then 5 minutes
of moderate jump rope to cool down.
The protocol - 10 minute brisk walk or slow paced jog for
warm up, 4
intervals of 10 - 30 second all out pushes and 3 - 4 minute brisk walk in between
intervals, then 10 minute brisk walk to cool down.
Warm - Up Group Dynamic Skill Sumo Deadlift 1.1.1.1.1.1 WOD 5 Rounds for
intervals 20m Broad Jump 9 Sumo Deadlifts @ 50 %
of Previous 400m Run [Rest 2 minutes]
The Protocol - 5 minute moderate jump rope for
warm up or 10 minute brisk walk / jog, 5 sets
of 10 - 30 second
intervals (all out swings) and 45 - 60 seconds
of rest in between
intervals, then 5 minutes
of moderate jump rope or 10 minute brisk walk / jog to cool down.
The Protocol - 10 minute brisk walk or slow paced jog for
warm up, 5
intervals of 10 - 30 seconds all out sled dragging and 2 - 3 minute brisk walk in between
intervals, then 10 minutes brisk walk to cool down.
Warm up for 5 minutes, and perform just a few alternating speed and recovery
intervals; 3 - 4
of each should be plenty and will give you a feel for it; finish with an easy cool down.
In essence, the authors have revisited a question posed earlier in a paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas (2003: see our previous discussion here), investigating whether or not evidence from past proxy records
of temperature support the existence
of past
intervals of warmth with the widespread global scale
of 20th century
warming.
This period doesn't fall even remotely within the
interval commonly referred to as the «Medieval
Warm Period» Instead, it actually falls within the heart
of the «Little Ice Age» itself!
The basic picture is the same — 2008 is a cool anomaly on the back
of a
warming trend and is very analogous to similar cool anomalies that occur in the models at random
intervals.
What is
of interest, instead, is whether centuries - long
intervals can be found over which
warm events or cold events tend to cluster.
«Palaeoclimatologists developing region - specific climate reconstructions
of past centuries conventionally label their coldest
interval as «LIA» and their
warmest interval as the «MWP».
In contrast, the only
interval in the GISS or NCDC global time series that looks odd is during the WWII years between 1941 and 1945, where it appears that all the temperatures have a
warming bias
of 0.1 C. I agree with J.J.Kennedy that it is an artificial shift based on war - time procedures, but I think the corrections that Hadley made post-WWII were questionable.
The estimates
of OHC change since 1975 are even more certain, and it is the
interval since then when the
warming occurred.
In that span, the amount
of CO2 in the air fluctuated between 190 and 280 parts per million — low during ice ages and high during
warm intervals.
Here's another way to frame the question: Have we left the Holocene Epoch — the
warm interval since the end
of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago — and entered what is increasingly described as a geological epoch or age
of our own making?
This began roughly 150 years ago and, with the exception
of a few short
intervals of steady (or even very slight decreases in) temperatures, the planet continues to
warm at an even more rapid rate.
Right now there are 4 persistant cold spots and 4
warmer than usual spots in the oceans
of Southern hemisphere at nicely spaced
intervals.
In contrast to the surface
warming trend
of the Indian Ocean, Alory et al. (2007) found a subsurface cooling trend
of the main thermocline over the Indonesian Throughflow region, that is, near EEIO, in 1960 — 99, the
interval using the new Indian Ocean Thermal Archive.
Those questioning the vulnerability
of this species to
warming will point to its successful survival through two previous
warm intervals between ice ages as evidence the bear can deal with reduced ice and other big environmental shifts.
Below you'll hear from scientists with significant concerns about keystone sections
of the paper — on the evidence for «superstorms» in the last
warm interval between ice ages, the Eemian, and on the pace at which seas could rise and the imminence
of any substantial uptick in the rate
of coastal inundation.
Total anthropogenic emissions
of one trillion tonnes
of carbon (3.67 trillion tonnes
of CO2), about half
of which has already been emitted since industrialization began, results in a most likely peak carbon - dioxide induced
warming of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, with a 5 — 95 % confidence
interval of 1.3 — 3.9 degrees Celsius.