Sentences with phrase «warmed over the past few decades»

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

As the world has warmed over the past few decades, climate scientists have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potentially catastrophic impacts that warming could have on the world's weather.

In other words, they claim that any global warming over the past few decades can be explained by El Niño activity.

According to the Pew Research Center: «Nearly seven - in - ten (69 %)[Americans] say there is solid evidence that the earth's average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades, up six points since November 2011 and 12 points since 2009.»

In a separate series of questions, adults in the general public were asked whether or not there is solid evidence that the average temperature of the earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades.

A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 59 % of adults say there is solid evidence that the earth's average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades.

According to the Pew Research Center: «Nearly seven - in - ten (69 %)[Americans] say there is solid evidence that the earth's average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades, up six points [continue reading...]

Lolwot Can you please point to something that you believe has worsened for humanity as a result of it getting warmer over the past few decades that is not easily adapted to via taking the steps any society should, i.e. building proper infrastructure?

Will Pielke & Pielke now write an article about the success of climate models in predicting ocean warming over the past few decades?

Not exact matches

Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

The finding challenges previous arguments that a hot spot north of Cape Hatteras over the past few decades was due to a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic, which is itself due to global warming.

Dlugokencky, in an e-mail, wrote there have been «no significant increases in Arctic emissions over the past few decades» and that it would take «centuries» for warming to affect methane hydrate — bearing sediments.

This continues the trend of warming winters over the past few decades as the climate warms from increasing greenhouse gases, with the eastern two - thirds of the country warming the most during the winter.

Data analysis, physical observations and basic arithmetic all show ENSO can not explain the long term warming trend over the past few decades.

However, it is unable to explain the long term warming trend over the past few decades.

But as time wears on, especially over the past few decades, you see more outward leaps, when climate warming is speeding up.

Future topics that will be discussed include: climate sensitivity, sea level rise, urban heat island - effects, the value of comprehensive climate models, ocean heat storage, and the warming trend over the past few decades.

Of course, the PDO is something that happens over a few decades, whereas global warming has been going on for most of the past century.

What is obvious is that including the data of the past few years pushes the estimates of climate sensitivity downward, because there was little warming over the past decade despite a larger greenhouse gas forcing.

Attitudes won't change the fact that the Earth has already warmed about 0.7 C over the past century and mostly in the last few decades, and the warming has been accelerating.

Fewer deep freezes, attributable to Earth's warming climate, have caused mangrove forests to expand northward in Florida over the past three decades, new research suggests.

The upper figure shows changes in ocean heat content since 1958, while the lower map shows ocean heat content in 2017 relative to the average ocean heat content between 1981 and 2010, with red areas showing warmer ocean heat content than over the past few decades and blue areas showing cooler.

Few here realize that the IPWP has been gaining energy and expanding for the past 60 + years, or that what is considered as anomalous warmth in the Pacific used to define the comings and goings of El Nino's has been constantly revised upwards over the past several decades to account for the continuously warming ocean.

Two - thirds of Americans (67 %) say there is solid evidence that the earth has been getting warmer over the last few decades, a figure that has changed little in the past few years.

Study authors Greg Goldsmith and William Anderegg used the Google Trends tool to track web searches related to global warming over the past decade but found that peaks of interest in major stories, such as the release of climate scientists» emails in 2009 - dubbed «climategate» - died down within a few weeks, The Guardian reported.

Over the past few decades, warming temperatures have been linked to changes in the percentage of precipitation falling as rain or snow, and snow melt anomalies showing a trend towards earlier and faster stream flow.

Scientists contend levels of CO2 — a greenhouse gas — have dramatically increased in the atmosphere over the past few decades, contributing to global warming.

Recently there have been some studies and comments by a few climate scientists that based on the slowed global surface warming over the past decade, estimates of the Earth's overall equilibrium climate sensitivity (the total amount of global surface warming in response to the increased greenhouse effect from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) may be a bit too high.

Winters have also warmed over a longer period of record, but the fastest warming has taken place during the past few decades.

Few people would argue that the planet has warmed to some extent over the past three decades, and many people feel that humans caused at least some part of this warming through their consumption of fossil fuels.