Sentences with phrase «year climate record»

Similar to the recent scientific findings of unexceptional modern warming for many parts of the world, such as in the U.S., across Antarctica, and multiple other regions of the world, scientists in China have analyzed a 350 + year climate record and found modern warming is not unusual versus the warming of earlier periods in the record.

(According to NASA, September 2016 edged out September 2014 as the hottest September in the 136 - year climate record.

«Continuous 500,000 - Year Climate Record from Vein Calcite in Devils Hole, Nevada.»

It is a fact that the earth has been around for much longer than the 160,000 year climate record you point to, and it's not a «fact» that CO2 «never» exceed 280 ppm — another of your loose «facts» — because we're missing a few billion years of data.

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The U.S. endured 16 separate weather and climate disasters with losses that each exceeded $ 1 billion last year, with total costs of about $ 306 billion, a new record for the country.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

In 2017, the U.S. endured its costliest year for weather and climate disasters on record because of a trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season.

In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

A new study that looks at climate change over the past 11,300 years — a record length of time for any study — suggests that the current trend of global warming is unprecedented.

In 2015, the planet reached «alarming» and «unprecedented» rates of climate change, according to the United Nations — and 2016 is set to be another record - breaking year.

Australian scientists have welcomed the success of a five - year Greenland ice core drilling project that is expected to reveal a record of more than 130 000 years and provide an insight into future global climate.

The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.

Last year was Earth's warmest on record, according to an international climate report issued today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that documents other record - breaking global warming trends of 2016.

[hide] Climate data for Ghana Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °C (°F) 31 (88) 32 (90) 32 (90) 32 (90) 32 (90) 29 (84) 27 (81) 27 (81) 29 (84) 30 (86) 31 (88) 31 (88) 32 (90) Average high °C (°F) 27.5 (81.5) 27.5 (81.5) 28 (82) 28 (82) 27 (81) 26 (79) 25 (77) 24 (75) 26 (79) 26 (79) 27 (81) 27 (81) 28 (82) Average low °C (°F) 23 (73) 23 (73) 24 (75) 24 (75) 23 (73) 23 (73) 22 (72) 21 (70) 22 (72) 22 (72) 23 (73) 23 (73) 21 (70) Record low °C (°F) 15 (59) 17 (63) 20 (68) 19 (66) 21 (70) 20 (68) 19 (66) 18 (64) 20 (68) 19 (66) 21 (70) 17 (63) 15 (59) Average rainfall mm (inches) 16 (0.63) 37 (1.46) 73 (2.87) 82 (3.23) 145 (5.71) 193 (7.6) 49 (1.93) 16 (0.63) 40 (1.57) 80 (3.15) 38 (1.5) 18 (0.71) 787 (30.99) Average rainy days 2 2 5 7 11 14 7 6 8 9 4 2 77 Average relative humidity (%) 79 77 77 80 82 85 85 83 82 83 80 79 85 Mean monthly sunshine hours 214 204 223 213 211 144 142 155 171 220 240 235 2,372 Source: Climatemps.com [57] Rivers Main article: Rivers of Ghana

«As the hottest year in recorded history comes to a close, New York has a unique responsibility to step into its leadership to fully divest and take meaningful action on climate,» said Beta Coronel, 350.org Reinvestment Coordinator.

Researchers established the first camp here in 1989, at the start of an international effort that drilled the 3,053 - meter - long Greenland Ice Sheet Project - 2 ice core, retrieving a record of climate over the previous 110,000 years.

Rocks and sediments that have recorded conditions millions of years ago could be the key to predicting the future of climate change, according to a new National Academy of Sciences report

«All six years since the last report (2001 to 2006) are among the seven warmest years on record,» notes Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and another lead author.

These sediments hold historic records of climate change and monsoon activity during the last 15 million years.

«That is very exciting because a lot of interesting things happened with Earth's climate prior to 800,000 years ago that we currently can not study in the ice core record.»

Eelco Rohling, an ocean and climate scientist at the University of Southampton in England, has studied the paleoclimate record going back 50 million years.

Since 1999, the IPO has been in a negative phase but consecutive record - breaking warm years in 2014, 2015 and 2016 have led climate researchers to suggest this may have changed.

In contrast, Bierman and colleagues» data provides a record of continuous ice sheet activity over eastern Greenland but can't distinguish whether this was because there was a remnant in East Greenland or whether the ice sheet remained over the whole island, fluctuating in size as the climate warmed and cooled over millions of years.

NASA's Global Climate Change Program has reported that «the 10 warmest years in the 134 - year record all have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998,» and the year 2015 ranks as the warmest on record.

Thanks to Darwin, records on Chillingham cattle go back 150 years, and show a breeding response to climate change resulting in more winter calf deaths.

California just finished the hottest first half year on record, a period going back 120 years, according to the national climate overview for June released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.

Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region

But about 500 years ago, the methane record shows a dramatic reduction in wildfires that can not be tied to climate.

Brown researchers have compiled a detailed Indonesian climate record of the last 60,000 years, tracking telltale indicators in sedimentary cores: titanium levels (a marker for surface water runoff) and the carbon isotopes of leaf wax, a marker for plant varieties (grasses indicate dry conditions).

The warming of the world's climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes.

It's estimated that Lake Tuwuti sediments record up to 800,000 years of climate data, and Russell recently received funding to take deeper cores.

I think it would just be tragic if what is now a 40 - year record of land - use change and climate change were to end with Landsat 8.

In contrast, Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia, and his French colleague Jean - Robert Petit, a glaciologist at the University of Grenoble (and lead author of the classic paper on the 420,000 - year Vostok climate record), detected only a few cells per milliliter; in some specimens they found none at all.

«The value of the WAIS Divide core as a high - resolution climate record is clear in these latest results and is another reward for the eight - year effort to obtain it.»

The costly disaster follows on the heels of a record - breaking year for devastation wrought by the vagaries of the weather and longer - term climate conditions.

«These results help resolve a divergence in climate trends of the past 2,000 years recorded in marine sediments of the North Atlantic Ocean, compared with those recorded in fossil pollen from the continents of North America and Europe,» says Jonathan Wynn, program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, which co-funded a portion of the research with NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

Once the LGM came to a close, however, the climate began to warm, the sea level rose and ice masses started melting away, allowing the Native American founder population to enter into North America nearly 15,000 years ago, according to the genetic record.

When he lined up their ages with global climate records, he noticed a pattern: Many species of megafauna seemed to disappear during a period of extreme warming around 12,300 years ago, Cooper and his team write today in Science Advances.

Sediment core samples drawn from Lake Titicaca, South America's largest freshwater lake, have revealed a 25,000 - year precipitation record that may rewrite the books on ancient climate.

«The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,» David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.

This year wasn't just notable for the final maximum extent, though, as «nearly every day has been a record for that day in the satellite record» this year, Ted Scambos, a senior scientist with NSIDC, previously told Climate Central.

Stalagmites, which crystallize from water dropping onto the floors of caves, millimeter by millimeter, over thousands of years, leave behind a record of climate change encased in stone.

Newly published research by Rhawn Denniston, professor of geology at Cornell College, and his research team, applied a novel technique to stalagmites from the Australian tropics to create a 2,200 - year - long record of flood events that might also help predict future climate change.

In addressing climate issues, Obama noted that «2014 was the planet's warmest year on record.

According to NASA's September 2016 climate data, the previous 10 months have been the hottest on record for each of those months out of the last 136 years — since modern weather recording started.

Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.

The consensus stems from new evidence (among other things, proxies that extend the climate record back in time and six more years that are among the hottest ever recorded) brought forward since the last assessment in 2001.

After 2014 was declared the warmest year on record, a Climate Central analysis showed that 13 of the 15 warmest years in the books have occurred since 2000 and that the odds of that happening randomly without the boost of global warming was 1 in 27 million.