Sentences with phrase «warmest year in the past»

You would also expect it to be the warmest year in the past 400 to 800 years.

(01/27/2014) Global warming continues apace as 2013 was the seventh warmest year in the past 133 years, according to a new analysis from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

The slogan for their campaign was that the 20th century was the warmest century, the 1990s the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year in the past millennium - a slogan that got repeated in speech after speech and presentation after presentation.»

The slogan for their campaign was that the 20th century was the warmest century, the 1990s the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year in the past millennium — a slogan that got repeated in speech after speech and presentation after presentation.

Not exact matches

Winter Warming: In the past 30 years, winter temperatures have risen most in some of the coldest places in the United StateIn the past 30 years, winter temperatures have risen most in some of the coldest places in the United Statein some of the coldest places in the United Statein the United States.

As I've participated in conferences and events over the past couple years, I've noticed that some of the wisest and warmest people I've met have been Mennonites, so I've been trying to learn more about their theology and practice.

I've been a big fan of baked oats in the past, but sometimes they can be a bit «stodgy» and you may want something lighter for breakfast (Especially as you head into the warmer part of the year).

Berbatov has been linked with a number of clubs on the continent, most notably Lazio and his former side Bayer Leverkusen, but having spent the past six years in England he is apparently hoping to be thrown a Premier League lifeline but does not wish to continue to warm the bench at Man United, a fact echoed by Sir Alex Ferguson who has admitted that he may well lose the talented forward.

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 the past two years, warm weather disrupted the tradition of playing on the lake, so the event was moved to Lippold Park.

It's the time of year in Chicago when you might see sunlight past 5 p.m., get hopeful that perhaps the winter might be taking a turn, and then remember you won't be truly warm again until mid-May.

Nassau Democrats left out in the cold for the past eight years were welcomed back with space heaters and hand warmers.

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

Because of the strong recent warming, the updated trend over 1906 to 2005 is now 0.74 ± 0.18 degree C. Note that the 1956 to 2005 trend alone is 0.65 ± 0.15 degree C, emphasizing that the majority of 20th - century warming occurred in the past 50 years.

Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind - driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

A newly unmasked error in satellite probes of temperatures in Earth's atmosphere suggests that over the past 20 years the lower atmosphere has warmed slightly — not cooled, as the data had suggested.

In comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higheIn comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres highein the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higher.

But now due to global warming over the past 100 years, methane release in the Arctic seems to be accelerating, Walter says, and left unchecked, it will continue to rise well above the levels found 10,000 years ago.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

They reported in the January 2010 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters that global warming does increase flood risk significantly, and that large floods have occurred more frequently in recent years than in the past.

In the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspecteIn the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspectein - just as they had suspected.

«Climate change has had a notable impact upon the distribution of many wild bees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.»

Two reports, published in February and July, upended the widespread belief that warming had stalled the past 15 years.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

And while the rate of planetary warming has slowed in the past 16 years, it hasn't stopped.

In response, lakebed temperatures of Arctic lakes less than 1 meter (3 feet) deep have warmed by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the past three decades, and during five of the last seven years, the mean annual lakebed temperature has been above freezing.

As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.

An important emerging issue, according to Stocker, is whether the unexpected hiatus in atmospheric warming over the past 15 years is a blip or evidence of a longer term trend.

BLAST FROM THE PAST Three million years ago, Earth's climate was so warm that the High Arctic supported forests (illustrated) in which camels and other animals roamed.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

Over the past 60 years, winter temperatures in the northwestern part of the peninsula have soared by 11 degrees F. Year - round temperatures have risen by 5 degrees F and the surrounding ocean is warming.

The coldest night of the winter in this region has warmed by about 7 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 50 years, creating favorable conditions for the southern pine beetle to increase its range.

Our planet has warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the century, but for reasons that aren't entirely clear, the Antarctic Peninsula — the stretch of land that reaches up toward South America — has warmed 4.5 degrees in just the past 50 years.

Some show far more variability leading up to the 20th century than the hockey stick, but none suggest that it has been warmer at any time in the past 1000 years than in the last part of the 20th century.

The Berkeley Earth analysis shows that over the past 50 years the poor stations in the U.S. network do not show greater warming than do the good stations.

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

«The climate changed quite often from warmer to colder, and vice versa, but at all times it was much colder than the interglacial period that we have lived in for the past 10,000 years.»

The severe decline in precipitation in the African Sahel during the past 30 years seems to be related to both anthropogenic warming and aerosol pollutants.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

Last year's devastating category - 5 hurricane — Matthew — may be one of many past examples of a tropical storm fueled by massive rings of warm water that exist in the upper reaches of the Caribbean Sea.

The site's name is drawn from the 1 degree Fahrenheit the world has warmed in the past 30 years; as the Web site states, «something so seemingly small as a single degree can change the world.»

In some parts of the Arctic Ocean, the shallow regions near continents may be one of the settings where methane hydrates are breaking down now due to warming processes over the past 15,000 years.

The past 11 months have been the hottest such months in 135 years of recordkeeping, a streak that has itself set a record and puts in clear terms just how much the planet has warmed due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«As climate warms, mice morph: Biologists document changes in teeth and skull structure in two species in southern Quebec over past 50 years.»

But the period of time over which the team analysed the long - term trend in warming was the past 50 years, in which this oscillation hasn't changed significantly — so almost all the warming looks to have been the result of anthropogenic climate change.

Water temperatures in the Fraser River have risen 2 °C in the past 60 years, and, with global warming, researchers expect even bigger die - offs to come.

These phenomena warm or cool the tropical Pacific and are thought to have played a role in the flattening of the long - term warming trend over the past 15 years.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

According to climate records stretching back a century, southern Greenland has warmed three degrees Celsius in just the past 20 years, driving melting that may help lubricate glacial flow along the bedrock, the two speculate.