Sentences with phrase «warming episodes appear»

In the distant past, warming episodes appear to have been initiated by cyclical changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun that caused more summer sunlight to fall in the northern hemisphere.

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At the scale, the general course of global temperatures has been generally downward and the length of warm episodes appears to be shortening.

The recent dramatic warming of the last 3 decades of the 20th century coinciding with massive releases of chlorofluorocarbons to the atmosphere tends to support this model, especially as that warming episode appears to have ended some 17 years ago.

Not exact matches

The contentious part of our paper is that the climate system appears to have had another «episode» around the turn of the 21st century, coinciding with the much discussed «halt» in global warming.

He ominously warns: «Climate scientists are used to seeing the range of weather extremes stretched by global warming, but few episodes appear as remarkable as this week's unusual heat over the Arctic.»