Not exact matches
Using climate models to understand the physical processes that were at play during the glacial periods, the team were able to show that a
gradual rise in CO2 strengthened the trade winds across Central America by inducing an El Nino - like
warming pattern
with stronger
warming in the East Pacific than the Western Atlantic.
«In situations like New York has had this year --[
with cold and
warm weather alternating instead of a
gradual progression to
warmer temperatures]-- trees will bloom because they're dependent on the light cycle, not the temperature,» Ponda explained.
plus, the beach is perfect for beginning surfers
with its
warm water and
gradual incline.
«Wavelet analysis shows that this relative urban
warming trend was primarily manifested in the form of multi - decadal and interseasonal cycles that are likely attributable to
gradual increased winter heating in Ottawa (heat island effects) associated
with population growth.
Taken from the Maunder minimum of course, there is a
gradual warming but it's inconsistent
with CO2.
The fact that the cooling spans are
gradual while
warming episodes are short - term and abrupt is an issue that has been comfortably dealt
with yet, regardless of the pet theory applied.
Combine the satellite trend
with the surface observations and the umpteen non-temperature based records that reflect temperature change (from glaciers to phenology to lake freeze dates to snow - cover extent in spring & fall to sea level rise to stratospheric temps) and the evidence for recent
gradual warming is, well, unequivocal.
It also, in my view, falsifies AGW because this one - time step up in temperature is completely inconsistent
with gradual GHG
warming, and it is the only
warming we see.
I believe that the world has much more to fear
with a sudden onset of cooling rather than from the
gradual warming that has been observed to date.
The main thing to learn is: (a) the oceans are gradually heating up, along
with a hotter atmosphere but (b) on top of that
gradual warming we now find extreme ocean heating events.
John Philips (13:43:35) «Trends» have become virtually meaningless lately, since the word has been so variably used, but try this: Eyeball the temperature curve as correlated to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and you will see an excellent relationship
with the cyclic cooling and
warming phase of the PDO overlaid on a
gradual warming trend emerging from the Little Ice Age.
Quite predictable that
with the reality of sea - ice disappearance and the
gradual warming of freshwater lakes, that people would start to rationalize this turn of events by asserting that it would lead to previously undiscovered stores of crude oil!
What happened in the Arctic, was a slow, very slow and
gradual decrease in cooling, caused by progressively longer
warmer seasons,
with a feedback loop of
warm air reducing albedo,
with reduced albedo increasing
warm air.
They both show a dramatic swing out of the last Ice age to
warm temps (
warmer than now) and then swings in temps both up and down in a periodic fashion
with each upward swing in temps topping off less
warm than the last one, meaning the overall trend has been
gradual cooling since the emergence to
warm temps after the last ice age.
With no
warm up, no build up, no
gradual increments.