Sentences with phrase «warmest year around the world»

Image to right: 2004 - The Fourth Warmest Year in a Century: 2004 was the fourth warmest year around the world, since the late 1800s, according to NASA scientists.

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Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.

Likewise, as the world headed into a cooler, drier climate around 250 million years ago, the early seed - bearing plants had a distinct advantage over their simpler, spore - releasing relatives that then flourished in moist, warm swamps.

A number of research efforts in recent years have suggested that warmer temperatures and drought increase the risk of violent conflict around the world.

«Terrestrial climates around the world tend to alternate between cool, wet summers in some years and warm, dry summers in other years,» said UBC forestry PhD candidate Colin Mahony, lead author of the study.

If strong, the El Niño event could not only wreak havoc on weather around the world, but could also trigger a resumption of global warming that has been seemingly stalled for the last 15 years.

Proxies from all over the world have shown that global climate was as warm or even warmer during the so - called Medieval Warm Period back around a thousand yewarm or even warmer during the so - called Medieval Warm Period back around a thousand yeWarm Period back around a thousand years.

World governments are cooperating as they work to slip a leash around the monstrous problem of global warming, but new analysis shows that leash will need to be severely tightened in the coming years if damage from future warming is to be meaningfully reduced.

In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Even though it's a dress for warmer weather it's so simple you'll find use for it for many years to come, not to mention that if you are a traveler this will go beautiful in a resort around the world!!

The world warmed around 5 °C in 10,000 years since the last glacial maximum — that's 0.005 °C per decade on average.

This ice sheet is losing mass at a rather larger rate (around 220 cubic kilometres per year) and it will take only another 1 - 2 oC world warming to raise the summer melt zone to the top of the Greenland ice pack after which point, in my understanding, the ice sheet will go into irreversible melt.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).

Dr Colin Morice of the Met Office Hadley Centre said: «The global temperature figures for 2017 are in agreement with other centres around the world that 2017 is one of the three warmest years and the warmest year since 1850 without the influence of El Niño.

As Parties to Montreal Protocol negotiate a global agreement for an HFC phase - down this year, several safety standards and building codes are threatening to limit the climate ambition and effectiveness of this agreement by blocking the uptake of low global warming potential (GWP), energy efficient alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)- based cooling around the world.

EPA has embraced the basic facts on global warming that scientists around the world have acknowledged for years.

Years - long ocean trends such as El Niño and La Niña cause alternate warming and cooling of the sea surface there, with effects on monsoons and temperatures around the world.

But when policymakers from around the world gather at a key U.N. climate meeting in Poland later this year, countries will be forced to reckon with the difference between how much they say they want to limit the warming of the planet and how little they actually are doing to make that happen.

While the Earth's climate does not respond quickly to external changes, many scientists believe that global warming already has significant momentum due to 150 years of industrialization in many countries around the world.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch)-- Warning: 100 - year megafires, 100 - year megafloods, 100 - year droughts and all the other 100 - year - cycle climate - change and global - warming disasters that are supposed to happen somewhere around the world once a century?

It comes after years of warming waters have bleached coral reefs around the world, leaving them weakened.

«There's No Way Around It: Donald Trump Looks Like a Disaster for the Planet --»... all the fragile but important progress the world has made on global warming over the past eight years is now in danger of being blown up.»»

The implications are important, since climate studies indicate the snowpack in mid-elevation forests in the Western United States and other similar forests around the world has been decreasing in the past 50 years because of regional warming.

«Actually, with the exception of 1998 — a «blip» year when temperatures spiked because of a strong «El Nino» effect (the cyclical warming of the southern Pacific that affects weather around the world)-- the data on the Met Office's and CRU's own websites show that global temperatures have been flat, not for ten, but for the past 15 years.

Pressure is mounting on ExxonMobil to explain why the oil giant funded climate denial around the world years after its own scientists established global warming was real.

Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.

The pattern of temperatures shows a rise as the world emerged from the last deglaciation, warm conditions until the middle of the Holocene, and a cooling trend over the next 5000 years that culminated around 200 years ago in the Little Ice Age.

Earlier this year, a paper by Michael Mann - for years a leading light in the IPCC, and the author of the infamous «hockey stick graph» showing flat temperatures for 2,000 years until the recent dizzying increase - made an extraordinary admission: that, as his critics had always claimed, there had indeed been a» medieval warm period» around 1000 AD, when the world may well have been hotter than it is now.

In reality we've known for nearly 190 years that rising CO2 causes global warming, and we know for certain it's well - mixed throughout the atmosphere, as illustrated by measurements from around the world.

The NASA dataset, which declared 2015 as the warmest year on record, takes measurements from thousands of sites around the world.

In recent years global warming has caused nearly every reef around the world to suffer declines.

Every year, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) brings together scientists from around the world to measure the size of the greenhouse gas (GHG) «emissions gap,» the difference between the emissions level countries have pledged to achieve under international agreements and the level consistent with limiting warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F).

Other parts of the world to experience their warmest year on record in 2013 included the tropical North Pacific region around and east of the Philippines, along with parts of central Asia.

Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colorado, in the US, says world weather is a combination of natural variability plus global warming from human influences: «The weather experienced around the world in the past year... shows us the sort of thing that will become routine in a decade or so.

Worse, around 2013 the world media began to give attention to claims that there was a «hiatus» or pause in global warming — the average global atmospheric temperature was only slightly above what it had been in the unusual year 1998.

In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Usually scientists rely on the temperature over land, taken from weather stations around the world for the last 150 years, to show global warming.

They have documented droughts that stretched for hundreds of years, dated historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and found in trees around the world evidence of how the planet cooled and then started warming.

«Actually, with the exception of 1998 — a «blip» year when temperatures spiked because of a strong El Niño effect (the cyclical warming of the southern Pacific that affects weather around the world)-- the data on the Met Office's and CRU's own websites show that global temperatures have been flat, not for 10, but for the past 15 years.»

Around 1,000 years ago, the temperature over many parts of the world was warm.

Slightly more than cursory examination reveals that the warm peaks at various of the locations around the world on that map are offset by as much as 500 years.

The new report underscores the urgency of the task before policymakers around the world — take potentially expensive actions now to reduce emissions in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming years down the road.

From there it goes on a thousand - year journey around the world — inching its way along the bottom of the ocean, looping around Antarctica — before finally warming up enough to rise back to the surface.

If strong, the El Niño event could not only wreak havoc on weather around the world, but could also trigger a resumption of global warming that has been seemingly stalled for the last 15 years.

Please note the UN now estimates that world population will peak at around 9 billion at mid-century; world oil consumption goes up every year and yet proven reserves continue to expand; global coolers have morphed into global warmers; of the 100 species allegedly extinguishing per day — name one that went extinct today — or even during the last 5 years.

The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), held each year at the University of Oregon Law School in Eugene, brings together attorneys, practitioners, students, and activists from around the world to explore panel and keynote topics as interesting and diverse as global warming impacts in Africa to wolf recovery in Oregon.