Not exact matches
During the summer in Atlanta, for instance, people don't buy any more beer than
usual, no matter what happens
with the
temperature.
There are the
usual suspects, like pricey pills and supplements, as well as the peculiar, such as infusions of blood from young mice or standing - room chambers pumped
with sub-zero
temperatures.
So pleased to hear that you made these
with youngsters and that (for the most part; — RRB - the cookies were well received and perhaps expanded their ideas of baking without the
usual «generosity» of ingredients that we all grew up on:p Good for you for finding a
temperature that suits your climate best — experimentation is where it's at and every environment will give rise (forgive the pun) to different issues, so making adjustments can be very helpful to the outcome.
I like these for a change from the
usual sweet muffin, and find they are good even at room
temperature spread
with lots of grass fed butter.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate
with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as -
usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global
temperatures.
They found that the business - as -
usual scenario comes
with large climate changes the world over and would create entirely new patterns of
temperature and precipitation for 12 to 39 percent of Earth's land area.
By using simulations that were created by running the same model multiple times,
with only tiny differences in the initial starting conditions, the scientists could examine the range of summertime
temperatures we might expect in the future for the «business - as -
usual» and reduced - emissions scenarios.
I didn't presume that Sir Nicholas spoke
with any other authority, and I certainly didn't endorse his alarmist conclusion, presented as a certainty, that under «business - as -
usual... we can see that we are headed for some pretty unpleasant increases of
temperature [of 4 or 5ºC].»
A «heatwave» in mid-November caused some parts of the Arctic to be 15C warmer than
usual,
with average
temperatures for November and December across the Arctic as a whole a full 5C above the long term average, according to the quickfire analysis of this year's unusual winter.
We are a bit into spring at this point and
with the weather constantly fluctuating between spring - like
temperatures and degrees that may lead some to wear a jacket, one may not be able to stick to the
usual spring style.
I've been dealing
with some health stuff lately that's made me even more
temperature - sensitive than
usual, so I'm layered up for fall on a warm - ish summer day.
It seems that every year, I start decorating a little early, and since we are experiencing cooler
temperatures earlier than
usual, I have already started
with some exquisite Hot Skwash velvet pumpkins from LoveFeast Shop.
But back to foreign lands, and
with the
temperature at Le Mans in the high - 30s the
usual pre-race evening antics abounded.
This adds a 7 - inch touchscreen
with the
usual inscrutable menus, a rearview camera, satnav, keyless ignition, automatic headlights and automatic
temperature controls for both driver and front passenger.
The
temperatures don't vary much through the year, a
usual high of about 32C
with a low of about 26C.
Weather wise outside today it's been hot and sunny as
usual here in Bali
with a midday top
temperature of 35 degree's Celsius.
Although they don't pose any real danger, these weather conditions do bring
with them low visibility and incredibly high
temperatures — as much as 20 °C higher than
usual.
I didn't presume that Sir Nicholas spoke
with any other authority, and I certainly didn't endorse his alarmist conclusion, presented as a certainty, that under «business - as -
usual... we can see that we are headed for some pretty unpleasant increases of
temperature [of 4 or 5ºC].»
The IPCC Summary For Policymakers shows the graph below for a business - as -
usual carbon emissions scenario, comparing
temperatures in the 1980s
with temperatures in the 2020s (orange) and 2090s (red).
About taking differences (current period figures less prior period figures) of anomalies: the anomalies are the value less the monthly mean (i.e., the mean for the particular month over the years, in this case 32 full years), as is the
usual practice
with climate data (most notably
temperature).
And for those who don't deny the
temperature trend, the
usual fallback position IS that it's not our fault (
with the next fallback of «oh well, there's nothing we can do about it»).
According to the latest projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the projected
temperature rise by the end of the century ranges from about 1.1 to 6.4 °C,
with a business - as -
usual rise of around 3 °C (put me down for 1.6 ° until then, unless nature is being a blatant liar).
Yet if the world continues
with business as
usual, failing to address the climate issue, the earth's
temperature during this century could easily rise by 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit).
Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align
with the Paris
temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue
with business as
usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.
In 2 December was an abnormality,
with temperatures rising above 26 or 27 Celsius for sure, I was working outside and the heat was not from this season (the weather reports, as
usual, have forecasted for this particular day,
temperatures at least 10 degrees lower than REALITY).
The effect of the strong 2015 - 16 El Nino on global
temperature has declined,
with the impact on global
temperature lagging the El Nino by a few months, as
usual.
So while it was a generally warmer (and drier) than
usual winter it also wasn't the warmest ever,
with the official NIWA statement being «The nation - wide mean
temperature was 1.2 °C above the winter average, based on NIWA's seven - station
temperature series, making this the warmest winter on record since 1909.»
But last year,
with temperatures the warmest since 1939, Eckhardt's trees produced just 10 percent of their
usual yield.
To counter this business - as -
usual scenario, the Stern Review proposes a climate stabilization regime in which greenhouse gas emissions would peak by 2015 and then drop 1 percent per year after that, so as to stabilize at a 550 ppm CO2e (
with a significant chance that the global average
temperature increase would thereby be kept down to 3 °C).
December 2015 is already on record as the warmest December in recorded history in Buffalo,
with the average
temperature at 47 degrees Fahrenheit, which is a whopping 12 degrees higher than
usual.
If we continue
with business as
usual, burning ever more oil, coal, and natural gas, the global average
temperature is projected to rise some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.
These include a «business as
usual» or high emissions scenario (RCP8.5; blue), an intermediate emissions scenario (RCP4.5; purple), a scenario where warming is limited to 2C (red), a scenario where warming is limited to 1.5 C (black) and a scenario where warming is limited to 1.5 C but
with a temporary
temperature overshoot (orange).
To some extent, this is down to a stronger than
usual temperature contrast,
with cooler - than - average water in the North Atlantic to the east of Newfoundland and warmer - than - average water to the south.
The probability of an ice - free Arctic summer from 2020 - 2100 under a range of future scenarios including 1.5 C (black), 1.5 C
with temperature overshoot (orange), 2C (red), moderate emissions (RCP4.5; purple) and «business as
usual» emissions (RCP8.5; blue).
The
usual snake oil salesmen then came up
with various experts / studies that tried to make the unbelievable believable: IPCC climate models accurately reflect past and current
temperature trends.
As you can see, there is nothing wrong
with the ideal gas law in any particular layer — the
usual molecular interpretation of
temperature holds there, as
usual, and so on.
The nonprofit Climate Interactive projected that if all countries» existing carbon reduction pledges are «fully implemented,
with no further action,» global
temperatures will rise 3.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100, which is 1 degree less than the 4.5 degrees Celsius of projected warming that would occur under «business as
usual.»
The scenarios include: «business as
usual» (BAU), which assumes no mitigation efforts are made («RCP8.5»); «mitigation», which assumes an intermediate level of emissions («RCP4.5») without negative emissions; «carbon dioxide removal» («CDR»), which assumes moderate emissions
with long - term CO2 removal; and «solar radiation management» («SRM»), which is the same as the CDR pathway, but also includes enough SRM to limit
temperatures to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
Its revised projection indicates that if we stick
with business as
usual, in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, average surface
temperatures on «Earth by 2100 will hit levels far beyond anything humans have ever experienced.
Projected global average
temperature rise above pre-industrial levels under a range of future scenarios, «business as
usual» (BAU), which assumes no mitigation efforts are made (RCP8.5); «mitigation», which assumes moderate emissions (RCP4.5) without negative emissions, «carbon dioxide removal» (CDR), which assumes moderate emissions
with long - term CO2 removal; and «solar radiation management» (SRM), which is the same as the CDR pathway but also includes enough SRM to limit
temperatures to 1.5 C by 2100.
I don't think this is cherry picking in the
usual sense; i.e., selecting only proxies
with a desired pattern to use in the
temperature reconstruction (such as bristle cones).
But isn't there somewhere still too big an abyss of uncertainty as definitely for ten years, since 2001, maybe even since 1997 or 1998 the
temperatures have not risen (and this year, at least now, is not shaping up as a hot year) while CO2 levels have grown
with business as
usual.
With business as
usual, the International Panel on Climate Change recently projected a global
temperature rise during this century of up to 6 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit).
Those include recognizing three realities: first that billions of people are on an irreversible course toward living something that looks like a modern life, replete
with the choices, comfort, and security that those of us in the rich world take for granted; second, that everyone on the planet and billions more likely to come can and should follow that path if they choose it; and third, that achieving that outcome while limiting global
temperatures to something likely above two degrees but well below the business - as -
usual scenario will require developing zero - carbon technologies capable of powering that world.
(1) a slight increase in the price of coal, and a significant decrease in the price of natural gas; (2) the weather conditions,
with no extremely hot days in the summer and much warmer than
usual winter
temperatures leading to heating degree days decreasing by 12.6 %.
The INDCs in the Paris Agreement, assuming no further progress
with the pledges, would put the world on track for a global
temperature increase of 3.5 °C (6.3 °F) above pre-industrial levels,
with a range of uncertainty from 2.1 to 4.7 °C (3.7 to 8.4 °F), down from the 4.5 °C (8.1 °F) of warming expected if nations continue business - as -
usual.
Yes, and it must be prevented from happening at all costs because it will raise global
temperatures by 2 degrees Centigrade and lead to extreme droughts, floods, storms and typhoons — the «
usual» calamities, but
with more intensity and frequency.
If we continue
with business as
usual, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) projected rise in the earth's average
temperature of 1.1 - 6.4 degrees Celsius (2 - 11 degrees Fahrenheit) during this century seems all too possible.
The La Nina phase is associated
with a lower global mean
temperature than
usual.
If we continue
with business as
usual, they say, we are facing a rise in global
temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic.