Sentences with phrase «warming over the past decade»

But it has been hard to reconcile this with the slow warming over the past decade.

«An important result of this paper is the demonstration that the oceans have continued to warm over the past decade, at a rate consistent with estimates of Earth's net energy imbalance,» Rintoul said.

Carbon Brief has posted an excellent piece by Roz Pidcock putting the new Nature Climate Change paper in broader context: «Beneath the waves: How the deep oceans have continued to warm over the past decade.»

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.

How can anyone say there has been no significant warming over the past decade?

Frankly with all of these effects acting in the cooling direction, it's amazing that surface temperatures continued to warm over the past decade, but they did.

Overall, Gallup has documented changes in Americans» views of global warming over the past decade.

PRINCETON, NJ — The slight upward trend in Americans» concern about global warming over the past decade masks a more significant trend: the growing gap between Republicans and Democrats over global warming.

So Nielsen - Gammon is correct to note that some of the slowed surface temperature warming over the past decade can be attributed to La Niña, although there have been other influences at play as well, such as human aerosol emissions.

This metric (as well as others) have shown a «standstill» in global warming over the past decade, exactly as Hansen has also described it.

That decline is associated with the much - discussed [The Economist, 2013; Allen et al, 2012; Stocker et al, 2013] deficit of observed vs. model - predicted warming over the past decade.

As we repeatedly pointed out over the years: that global warming over the past decades is not linked to cosmic rays is clear from the fact that the cosmic ray measurements over the past 50 years do not show any trend (Schiermeier 2007).

Despite a record (or near record, depending on who you ask) high for global temperatures in 2010, the general rate of warming over the past decade and half (going on two decades) is generally less than it was expected to be.

It seems minor — about 0.1 W / m2 relative warming over the past decade in recent work.

The most obvious explanation for the striking failure of most climate models to account for the pause in warming over the past decade is that the value of ∆ T2 is much smaller than the IPCC value.

So, you can say with confidence that it's warmed over the past decade.

The average of the models does overestimate the observed surface warming over the past decade.

But while most of the Antarctic has cooled, the one part of Antarctica that does interact with the lower latitudes, the Antarctic Peninsula — the «thumb» of the continent that sticks up toward South America — is a region that has undergone some of the most dramatic warming over the past decades.

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.

The relatively slow rate of warming over the past decade has lowered some estimates of climate sensitivity based on surface temperature records.

That said, the models that Soloman and her co-authors use still show significant warming over the past decade even when stratospheric water vapor is declining (they give a rise of 0.10 C instead of 0.14 C, a 0.04 degree C difference).

This point also becomes clear when one sees that there has been no warming over the past decade or more despite unabated human GHG emissions and CO2 concentrations reaching record levels.

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.

The slowed surface air warming over the past decade has lulled many people into a false and unwarranted sense of security.

Perhaps it's a combination of several factors, but which is the main cause of the slowed surface warming over the past decade?

The slowed surface warming over the past decade seems to be a result of more heat accumulation in the oceans due to short - term increase in ocean heat uptake efficiency.

Frustrated by the lack of computer - predicted warming over the past decade, some IPCC supporters have been claiming that «extreme weather» has become more common because of more CO2.

Models failed to predict the slowdown in warming over the past decade.

... then why do the vertical mean temperature anomalies (NODC 0 - 2000 meter data) of the Pacific Ocean as a whole and of the North Atlantic fail to show any warming over the past decade, a period when ARGO floats have measured subsurface temperatures, providing reasonably complete coverage of the global oceans?

Not exact matches

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

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.»

But over the past two decades an invasion of foreign restaurants has brought tongue - tingling tastes from warmer climates to this chilly part of northern Europe.

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?

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The amount of krill near the Antarctic Peninsula has fallen by 38 to 81 percent over the past three decades as the region has warmed.

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.

The measurements show that earlier warming between Greenland and north - east Canada's Baffin Island has continued over the past decade.

Climate change has made nights warmer in India over the past decade, an ominous sign for the nation's vital rice crop

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.

Over the past three decades, the incidence of cyclones in the tropics has actually diminished — because while tropical cyclones may become more intense in a warmer climate, it is actually more difficult to generate them.

«Over the past several decades, we've seen temperatures warming and carbon dioxide increasing, and our study found that this tropical forest has responded to that increase by producing more flowers.»

While the study suggests past surges in temperature have boosted conflicts, it doesn't necessarily follow that steady warming due to climate change over the coming decades will have the same effect.

Over the past decade the former vice president has trained thousands of climate leaders who are now spreading awareness about global warming in communities around the planet.

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.

If this rapid warming continues, it could mean the end of the so - called slowdown — the period over the past decade or so when global surface temperatures increased less rapidly than before.

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.

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.

But trends over the past 40 years have been decidedly up, with warming approaching 0.4 °F per decade.