Sentences with phrase «warmed at least a degree»

However, it is also worth noting that from the bottom of the Little Ice Age to say 1980, the world warmed at least a degree, and no one really noticed!

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«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

The January - to - March quarter was the nation's warmest three - month start since at least 1895, with an average temperature of 42.01 degrees Fahrenheit — six degrees warmer than the long - term average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This was not a problem for me, but for C who runs at least 5 degrees warmer than me, he was all like WTF?!

Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

And all models agree that the world will warm at least 0.4 degree Celsius in the next 20 years.

Of course, summer temperatures when the warming portion of the wobble cycle peaked roughly 7,500 years ago were at least 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than 20th - century average temperatures.

The findings, which were published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, show that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) would reduce the likelihood of an ice - free Arctic summer to 30 percent by the year 2100, whereas warming by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) would make at least one ice - free summer certain.

The surge in melt events corresponds to a summer temperature increase of at least 1.2 - 2 degrees Celsius (2.2 - 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) relative to the warmest periods of the 18th and 19th centuries, with nearly all of the increase occurring in the last 100 years.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

He estimates that increasing amounts of soot (combined with thinning sulfate) caused at least 45 percent of the 2.7 - degree Fahrenheit warming observed in the Arctic since the mid-1970s.

The 700 - degree Fahrenheit (370 - degree Celsius) fumes left over contain at least 30,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming — along with other pollutants.

Additionally, the decade was at least one - half degree Fahrenheit warmer today than the warmest periods of that 11,000 - year time frame, even counting for uncertainties, Shuman says.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

The implication: because average temperatures may warm by at least one degree C by 2030, «climate change could increase the incidences of African civil war by 55 percent by 2030, and this could result in about 390,000 additional battle deaths if future wars are as deadly as recent wars.»

If we can stabilize CO2 concentrations at 450 parts per million, it gives us probably at least 2 degrees of warming.

But even with such policies in place — not only in the U.S. but across the globe — climate change is a foregone conclusion; global average temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 degree C) and further warming of at least 0.7 degree F (0.4 degree C) is virtually certain, according to the IPCC.

Given that the degree of under - estimation of TCR using the Otto method seems inversely correlated with the NH / SH warming ratio, at least in the models used in Shindell (2014), it would seem that the rather large NH / SH warming ratio observed in the «real» earth system indicates a tiny to non-existent underestimation of TCR when using those simple methods (e.g. Otto et al) in the real world.

To keep global warming below two degrees, this figure needs to at least double for residential properties, according to the Corporate Leaders Group.

Scientists declare the arrival of an El Niño when that water warms by at least 0.4 degree Celsius (0.72 degree Fahrenheit) above average for five or more months in a row.

The ideal preparation of rice would start with home - milling, to remove a portion of the bran, and then would involve souring at a very warm temperature (90 degrees F) at least sixteen hours, preferably twenty - four hours.

It's been 30 degrees Celsius in Tokyo the entire weekend even though it's still May, but at least I can sport off - shoulder tops and sandals now that it's warmer.

I came home to «warmer» weather here in the Bay Area, but you know this girl isn't fully warm and happy unless it's at least 75 degrees out!

Technically, prior to each run, we made sure the blower was at least warm to the touch, the engine temperature was below 190 degrees, set rear tire pressure to 28 psi, and heated the tires before each run with a mild burnout.

They also can't regulate their temperatures, so they must be kept in a very warm environment of at least 80 degrees.

Weather wise down on the bukit it was once again your typical «dry season» stuff with nothing but blue sky and a very warm midday temperature of at least 33 degree's Celsius.

The temperature inside the cave is always at least one degree warmer than the surrounding ocean and the water is always clear.

I remember reading that an Arctic expedition also in 2004 found SSTs off Spitzbergen several degrees warmer than expected (with a newspaper statement «at least the Gulf Stream must stil be running strong»).

As I recall, the researchers, and Myles Allen in particular, emphasised the fact that the bottom end of the range (ie the 2 in 2 - 11 degrees C) corresponded to previous predictions of 2 - 5 degrees C. I seem to remember that they said this gave strength to the prediction that there would be a warming of * at least * 2 degrees C, but that there was a greater degree of uncertainty at the top - end.

You almost assuredly saw at least one story about how the potent storm that triggered deadly tornado outbreaks and flooding across the South and Midwest in recent days carried so much warm air to the North Pole that temperatures over the sea ice, normally well below zero through the dark boreal winter, briefly hitting 33 degrees Fahrenheit today.

The first part of your description is certainly true, I don't think the magnitude of the recent warming in the Arctic (including Greenland) is extraordinary (yet, but ask me again is a few years) when properly set against the backdrop of the last century, but I do believe that, at least to some degree, the warming of the Arctic (including Greenland) in recent years has resulted from an anthropogenic enhancement to the world's greenhouse effect.

It will make it 2 degrees warmer, but not thawing — at least in the far north.

I don't think I try to poke holes at the idea that Arctic warming is «likely driven in part by the global greenhouse effect» but I do seek out weaknesses with suggestions that it is driven entirely, or to some very large degree, by a human - enhanced greenhouse effect (at least at the current time).

If he says the world has warmed 0.8 degrees and most of that is human caused, then it must be at least that.

ACR wrote ``... the species has lived through at least a couple of protracted warm spells in which Arctic temperatures were likely several degrees warmer than at present.»

Although warming of only 1.5 degrees would result in much less harm to the climate than 2 degrees, it's possible that the ecological damage caused by the negative emissions projects needed to get there may exceed the benefits, at least for some.

We conclude that this scenario offers three attractive characteristics: environmental security, because the global carbon budget is set at a level which keeps global warming below 2 degrees; economic efficiency, because carbon trading allows the reductions to be made for least overall cost; and global social justice, because emission rights are allocated equally to all people.

So if our goal is to limit warming to 1.5 degrees there will be an «overshoot», taking warming to at least 2 and perhaps 3 degrees, before the average global temperature can be brought back down.

future warming will likely be at least two degrees Celsius over the next century.»

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

Even without looking to the UEA CRU, it is obvious that there is at least some warming, and most of us accept that CO2 contributes to it, but we can no longer be sure either to what degree humans are responsible overall, nor how much of any warming is down to CO2, because the models and data on which much of the theories are based are corrupted.

Four degrees of warming could raise global sea levels by 1 or possibly even 2 meters by 2100 (and would lock in at least a few additional meters over future centuries).

«The IEA has shown that if global warming is to be limited to 2 degrees, at least a fifth of all vehicles on roads by 2030 should be electric.»

When a temperature anomaly of ~ 0.1 degrees Celsius (the difference between 2015 and the previous global heat record of 2014 — please note the above graph is in Fahrenheit, not Celsius) can lead to such an extreme carbon feedback response, we know we can expect a lot more feedback - induced CO2 now that world leaders are about to seal a 3.5 degrees warming deal — if at least 2030 pledges are not raised before the start of COP21, the Paris climate summit.

Such warming would require at least 0.24 degrees Celsius per decade, for which we should see at least 0.80 degrees Celsius warming since 1979.

IPCC computer models dating from 1990 through the present have consistently predicted at least 2.4 degrees of global warming per century.

Recent research shows that the Antarctic contribution to sea level rise is close to zero for up to 1.5 degrees Celsius warming, then jumps to at least 2 metres once we pass approximately 2 degrees Celsius.

But a new draft study being published this week by a team of 17 leading international climate scientists warns that even 2 degrees of warming is «highly dangerous» and could cause sea level rise of «at least several meters» this century, leaving most of the world's coastal cities uninhabitable.

Source: press release for Myers et al., 2015 Sea Levels 2 - 4 m Higher Until ~ 5,000 Years Ago Imply Surface Temps Were At Least 5 °C Warmer According to the accepted (IPCC) formula for calculating the contribution of ocean warming (thermal expansion) to sea level rise upon reaching equilibrium, every additional degrees Celsius of surface warmth yields -LSB-...]