Sentences with phrase «warmer than the current»

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

Why Monckton cited this work in support of his assertion that the MWP was up to 3C warmer than the current warm period is extremely difficult to fathom.

If the next decade is not around.2 C warmer than the current decade, that will be of interest.

* Global temperature for 2007 is expected to be 0.54 °C above the long - term (1961 - 1990) average of 14.0 °C; * There is a 60 % probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the current warmest year (1998 was +0.52 °C above the long - term 1961 - 1990 average).

Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through, claim that the existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval Warm Period «was obviously warmer than the current climate (and by implication that human - caused global warming is not occuring).

Excerpt: Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

That period, warmer than the current warm stretch (at least for the moment), had sea levels around 10 to 15 feet higher than they are now.

I'm inclined to think that it is unlikely that the MWP was warmer than current temperatures but perhaps on par is not hard to believe.

It seems likely to me that the level warming we have had in many periods of this interglacial period are likely to occur again in the future centuries: And it seems during most the current of the interglacial temperatures have as warm or warmer than current temperatures, therefore it seems as warmer or warmer is most likely.

It's not about people thinking: «The Medieval Warm Period was warmer than current conditions.

If a researcher chooses to use the Esper version then it will make the Medieval Warm Period seem warmer than the Current Warm Period.

Another paper refutes the Mann made hockey stick — MWP was ≈ 1 °C warmer than current temperatures.

These proxies do not have a annual time scale so some decades in the past 10,000 years may have been warmer than our current decade - but we do not know that any were and it is likely that very few were.

Researchers analyzed how six tropical fish species might behave in ocean temperatures that are 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than their current habitats — a change that is expected to happen by the end of this century.

There are proxies and studies showint that S.Africa was im MWP not just warmer than current, actually it was «hotter».

req'd), found Artic temperatures almost beyond imagination — above 23 °C (74 °F)-- temperatures more than 18 °F warmer than current climate models had predicted when applied to this period.

A layperson can easily look up previous inter-glacial periods and see they ALL had higher temperatures, higher sea levels and a variety of CO2 levels (which had NO effect on global warming) ALL previous I - G periods became significantly warmer than our current average global temperatures, with sea levels ranging from 6mtrs to 12mtrs (20ft to 40ft) higher than today.

Three at 130,000, 230,000, and 340,000 years ago were warmer than the current temperatures on the right.

Many studies indicate the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was warmer than the current warm period (CWP).

What's more, the preponderance of these studies indicate that the MWP was warmer than the current warm period (CWP).

There is a 60 % probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the current warmest year (1998 was +0.52 °C above the long - term 1961 - 1990 average).

And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period.

The kind that claims that there is no information content in climate proxies and in the next breath thata thousands of studies show the MWP was warmer than current temps?

3 / looking at individual weather stations, one can also observe significant and questionable adjustment evolutions: Few examples of how to hide the inconvenient truth that temperature have been warmer in the past, despite small anthropogenic signature: Station Data: Reykjavik (64.1 N, 21.9 W)-- Old adjustments: the 30's are clearly warmer than current period.

Ural Mountains, Russia Mazepa, V.S. 2005 Medieval Warm Period lasted from approximately AD 700 to 1300 and that significant portions of it were as much as 0.56 °C warmer than the Current Warm Period.

They were about 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius) warmer than the current 5,000 - year average.

New research has just been published that examines this period and confirms previous findings that the Pliocene was dramatically warmer than current temperatures.The research, published in Csank et al 2011, uses two independent methods to measure Arctic temperature during the Pliocene, on Ellesmere Island.

I'd estimate based on observation that the baseline is still slightly — perhaps less than 1K — warmer than current.

It also showed the MWP was warmer than the current temperatures, something that is still true, despite the claims of the «warmest years on record».

«Temperatures in the area where Harvey intensified were 0.5 - 1C warmer than current - day average temperatures, which translates to 1 - 1.5 C warmer than the «average» temperatures a few decades ago,» Mann wrote.

The seem more creamy and warm than the current grey trend wall color.

Not exact matches

The Silverman brothers already have numerous connections to college officials through friends, alumni groups and former and current classmates, meaning the company can use warm leads rather than having to rely on cold - calling in new markets.

Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.

Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay rates and less unpleasant lives than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the current week.

The current weather conditions aren't bad at all; it's warmer in Nikolai and McGrath than it is elsewhere along the race route.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

«The research shows that climate sensitivity was higher during the past global, warm climate than in the current climate.

If global emissions continue at the current trajectory, Australia is expected to warm more than 9 F by 2090.

«Our current observations show that plants in Concord today are leafing out earlier than in Thoreau's time in response to warm temperatures,» she said.

«Having said all that,» said Larsen, «the current climate could slow down the advance of Yahtse or it could stop it a lot sooner than it would if we didn't have this warming trend going on right now.»

Unexpectedly, this more detailed approach suggests changes in Antarctic coastal winds due to climate change and their impact on coastal currents could be even more important on melting of the ice shelves than the broader warming of the ocean.

The finding runs counter to current dark matter theories, in part because the temperature measured was warmer than popular theories predict.

If the new results are correct, that means warming will come on faster, and be more intense, than many current predictions.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

The authors write that their observation that the modern collapse of the LIS - B is a unique event supports the hypothesis that the current warming trend in the northwestern Weddell Sea is longer and bigger than past warm episodes.

Warmer oceans have also caused a distinct change in El Niño events — the warmer currents associated with the cycle have now been observed towards the central Pacific rather than the west, according to the Sheffield scienWarmer oceans have also caused a distinct change in El Niño events — the warmer currents associated with the cycle have now been observed towards the central Pacific rather than the west, according to the Sheffield scienwarmer currents associated with the cycle have now been observed towards the central Pacific rather than the west, according to the Sheffield scientists.

She also emphasises the importance of the study to current debates about a human role in climate warming: «Cumulative archaeological data clearly demonstrates that humans are more than capable of reshaping and dramatically transforming ecosystems.