Sentences with phrase «when average temperatures rise»

A certain type of flow that is necessary for them to grow also steers the storms toward the pole, and these flows are expected to become stronger when average temperatures rise.

But when average temperatures rise, as is happening in many places around the world because of climate change, big blocks of ice melt more quickly than they can grow during the winter.

Not exact matches

But they've been especially interested in the most recent period of abrupt global warming, the Bølling - Allerød, which occurred about 14,500 years ago when average temperatures in Greenland rose about 15 degrees Celsius in about 3,000 years.

The average daily air temperature in the Antarctic summer of 2013, when Goordial collected the permafrost samples which she tested both on the spot and later in the lab, was − 14 °C and it never rose above 0 °C, making the permafrost difficult to drill.

Expect average temperatures of 15 °C in February, rising to around 24 °C in May, when the beach resorts kick off the summer season.

A question: the article leaves one with the impression that when (not if) there is a return to some strong El Niño events that surface temperature averages will resume their rise.

If one postulates that the global average surface temperature tracks the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, possibly with some delay, then when the CO2 concentration continues to rise monotonically but the global average surface temperature shows fluctuations as a function of time with changes in slope (periods wherein it decreases), then you must throw the postulate away.

It is likely that the change in temperature due to the change in concentration was more like when CO2 reached 280ppm from 140ppm the global average temperature would have rose roughly 2 Deg.

Pachauri started by saying that they «clearly ignored» the IPCC's recommendations on how to prevent climate change, and then laid into the G8: Though it was a good thing that the G8 agreed to the aspirational goal of limiting global average temperature rise to 2 °C by 2050, Pachauri said he found it «interesting» that the G8 then proceeded to pay no heed to when the IPCC says carbon emissions should peak.

A couple of years ago, when it was starting to become obvious that the average global surface temperature was not rising at anywhere near the rate that climate models projected, and in fact seemed to be leveling off rather than speeding up, explanations for the slowdown sprouted like mushrooms in compost.

There were at least 3 periods when the record shows that temperature started to drop when CO2 levels were above normal levels, and three when temperature started to rise when CO2 levels were below average, further demonstrating that CO2 was not the driver of temperature.

They found that average temperatures had remained relatively stable for most of the past millennia, but had started to rise steeply around 1900, when the Industrial Revolution kicked into full gear in Europe and North America, with new factories and automobiles pumping new sources of carbon dioxide emissions.

During the past 40 years the average summer temperatures in this region of the north - east peninsula has been 2.2 degrees Celsius, but on days when warm winds top the mountains of the peninsula, temperatures rise by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius, the researchers said.

When international delegates meet in Paris next year to negotiate a new global climate agreement, they'll be aiming to keep global average surface temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels.

Global average temperature will rise when a significant part of the globe warms with the next El Nino.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

Again for example, during multidecadal periods when El Niño events dominate, the tropical North Atlantic trade winds would be on average weaker than «normal», there would be less evaporation, less cool subsurface waters would be drawn to the surface, and tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperatures would rise.

more than 115,000 years ago, when the Earth's average atmospheric temperatures rose by about 4 °C hotter than the 20

One of these, reported in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, coincided with a spell between the Ice Ages, more than 115,000 years ago, when the Earth's average atmospheric temperatures rose by about 4 °C hotter than the 20th - century average.

Like in school when the class average mark goes up 10 marks does not mean that the whole class got exactly 10 marks more, the actual local temperature rise will depend on your location, wind patterns etc..

The ice decline is clearly linked with rising global temperatures, and the chances that the Arctic will be ice - free increase dramatically when the average global temperature rises between 1.7 and 2.1 degrees Celsius, Screen said.

He said energy use per person was on track to rise sixfold by 2050, which had dire implications for temperatures when combined with economic growth of 3.9 % a year (the six - decade average) and a world population of 9 billion.

It is simply the average temperature rise when CO2 levels reach 560ppm.

Even Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, one of the leading sirens of the alarmist community, had to concede late last month that, when it recalculated global temperatures for the past decade using the latest data and techniques, the average over the past 10 years had risen just 0.07 degrees centigrade, less than half the 0.2 degrees they and the UN had previously claimed.

But when climate scientists looked at a graph of the rise of temperatures in the last 60 years, they saw — or thought they saw — a distinct drop in the rate of increase in global average temperatures in the last 15 years.

It has been neglected as the long term strategy for climate control and ensuring our survival when temperature rise begins to exceed 3.6 degrees above historic averages and head on its inexorable climb to 10 plus degrees as the 540 Million year proxy record indicates it will.

The basic facts are that the long - range equilibrium temperature rises with every rise in CO2, that the CO2 will only stop rising when we have a world economy with zero net emissions, and that even a 2 - degree increase in average global temperature is forecast to produce huge changes, so there is a limit to how slowly we can go about the transition to zero emissions.

They found that when temperatures hovered near, or just above, modern day global averages, sea levels rose by around 20 feet.

At a time when thermometer measurements showed global average temperature rising.

The importance of this rebuttal or whatever you want to call it becomes even more obvious when you re-visit the Guardian's take on the Steig et al. article when it was published — «Research «kills off» climate sceptic argument by showing average temperature across the continent has risen over the last 50 years.»

Moreover, rising global average temperatures lead to longer pollen seasons in many places and — when combined with stronger rainfall events, flooding, and higher humidity — create the perfect environment for mold to flourish.