Sentences with phrase «year warming trend in»

As Table 1 shows, filtering out these external effects increased the 32 - year warming trend in every data set except UAH.

When the phase of natural variability is taken into account, the model 15 - year warming trends in CMIP5 projections well estimate the observed trends for all 15 - year periods over the past half - century.

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While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

But it also follows trends that are often seen in northeastern states — a loss of a manufacturing base and companies preferring to move their businesses to warmer temperatures where they can operate year - round.

Because of the strong recent warming, the updated trend over 1906 to 2005 is now 0.74 ± 0.18 degree C. Note that the 1956 to 2005 trend alone is 0.65 ± 0.15 degree C, emphasizing that the majority of 20th - century warming occurred in the past 50 years.

While natural patterns of certain atmospheric and ocean conditions are already known to influence Greenland melt, the study highlights the importance of a long - term warming trend to account for the unprecedented west Greenland melt rates in recent years.

Darkness and heat feed on each other in new simulations that predict a 20 - year warming trend on the Red Planet

Researchers found an overall warming trend in air temperature of 0.023 C (0.041 F) per year, and in water temperature of 0.028 C (0.050 F) per year over 51 years.

While a 16 - year - period is too short a time to draw conclusions about trends, the researchers found that warming continued at most locations on the planet and during much of the year, but that warming was offset by strong cooling during winter months in the Northern Hemisphere.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Launching his long - awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: «Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you,» he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

An important emerging issue, according to Stocker, is whether the unexpected hiatus in atmospheric warming over the past 15 years is a blip or evidence of a longer term trend.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

This year has already brought higher temperatures than normal nation - wide, and that trend is expected to continue, in part due to global warming which is caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

«It does show that what has happened in the last 30 years — a warming trend — puts us outside of all but the most extreme single years every 500 years since the Ice Age.

The warming trend was visible, Hansen said, even in this year's bitter Northern Hemisphere winter, which blanketed Britain and the East Coast in snow and had Congressional Republicans mocking former Vice President Al Gore for his climate claims.

Now, one year doesn't make a trend, but this does — 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.»

To explore the links between climatic warming and rainfall in drylands, scientists from the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol analysed more than 50 years of detailed rainfall data (measured every minute) from a semi-arid drainage basin in south east Arizona exhibiting an upward trend in temperatures during that period.

But the period of time over which the team analysed the long - term trend in warming was the past 50 years, in which this oscillation hasn't changed significantly — so almost all the warming looks to have been the result of anthropogenic climate change.

While 2014 temperatures continue the planet's long - term warming trend, scientists still expect to see year - to - year fluctuations in average global temperature caused by phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña.

These phenomena warm or cool the tropical Pacific and are thought to have played a role in the flattening of the long - term warming trend over the past 15 years.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

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«Last year's temperatures had an assist from El Niño, but it is the cumulative effect of the long - term trend that has resulted in the record warming that we are seeing.»

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades preceding that period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven by carbon dioxide.

The findings show a slight but notable increase in that average temperature, putting a dent in the idea that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, a trend highlighted in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Results on the trend toward advanced spring emergence were published this February in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Among the paper's findings: nymphal ticks peak in the spring, larval ticks peak in the summer, and both emerge nearly three weeks earlier in warmer years.

Peter Stott, the head of climate monitoring at the U.K. Met Office, agreed, noting in an email that, «The slowdown hasn't gone away, however, the results of this study still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods.

This sustained climate warming will drive the ocean's fishery yields into steep decline 200 years from now and that trend could last at least a millennium, according to University of California, Irvine, and Cornell University researchers in Science, March 9.

Complementary information to the Arctic warming analysis would be using DWT's of the few left Upper Air stations in the Circumpolar zone and crunch up temperature trends of the entire atmosphere, when variances from year to year are very small, but are mostly for the warmer.

The trend in these responses changed course last year, with slightly fewer Americans saying global warming would have a significant effect in their lifetimes.

You have also brushed over the fact that the warming rate increases rapidly in the mid and upper scenarios so using the centenial trend applied to the next 20 years is inappopriate.

As has been seen year after year, the warming of the Earth is causing major changes in many aspects of the planet's climate, and 2014 was yet another year that showed this trend in stark relief, a report released Thursday says.

2) Three years ago, I tried to get a handle on whether UHI was responsible for the recent warming trend in most of the temperature datasets by comparing the trends for the UAH / MSU 2LT channel and the Jones et al. surface data for some of the world's «empty places».

In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend.

He had written a column saying that Soon and Baliunas had demonstrated that Michael Mann's work and the work of others (showing that the recent warming trend surpassed that of any other in the last 1000 years of climate) was wrong.

That's the equivalent of a missing area of sea ice almost four times the size of Colorado, and puts this year right in line with a trend of ever decreasing sea ice in the region as the climate warms.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

While some places were cooler this year than in recent summers, they may have still been above average over the entire period of record, as warming trends in

The trend in more cold extremes was strongest during the period since pronounced Arctic warming emerged, or about the last 25 years, which lends at least some support to the possibility that that warming is helping fuel the trend, Shepherd said.

Researchers from Dartmouth College and Boise State University are studying the importance of long - term warming trends to account for the recent upswing in melting rates in recent years.

Even over the past ten years, despite a decrease in solar forcing, the trend continues to be one of warming.

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

The climate in most places has undergone minor changes over the past 200 years, and the land - based surface temperature record of the past 100 years exhibits warming trends in many places.

That was unexpectedly close to the 0.09 C warming trend found when similar research was published in 1994 with only 15 years of data, said Dr. John Christy, director of UAH's Earth System Science Center.

This means that, in the last 100 years, the Earth's temperature has reversed a long - term cooling trend that began around 5000 years ago to become near the warmest temperatures during the last 11,000 years.

They observed a Holocene cooling trend in the Antarctic of -0.26 to -0.40 degrees C / millennium for the past 1900 years prior to present day warming of the most recent 200 years.

It is now clear that, for thirty years, we have been in a strong global warming trend at a rate of about 0.2 Celsius per decade for the past 30 years, [meaning] there has been 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) global warming in the past 30 years.