News tagged with global surface temperatures
Rising ocean temperatures harm protected coral reefs
Special conservation zones known as marine protected areas provide many direct benefits to fisheries and coral reefs.
Mar 15, 2012 |
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ENASA satellite finds Earth's clouds are getting lower
(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's clouds got a little lower -- about one percent on average -- during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results ...
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Feb 22, 2012 |
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Decline in solar output unlikely to offset global warming: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has found that solar output is likely to reduce over the next 90 years but that will not substantially delay expected increases in global temperatures caused by greenhouse gases.
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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NASA finds 2011 ninth-warmest year on record
The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2012 |
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2011 a record-breaking year for extreme weather: US
Last year broke records for extreme weather in the United States, with 14 events each causing at least a billion dollars in damage, US authorities said on Thursday.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Climate balancing: Sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates
Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Designing the approach to ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Global sea surface temperature data provides new measure of climate sensitivity
Scientists have developed important new insight into the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in the Earth's radiation balance over the last half million years.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Past decade ties for world's hottest: UN agency
Thirteen of the warmest years recorded have occurred within the last decade and a half, the UN's World Meteorological Organisation said on Tuesday.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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World temps maintain the heat of global warming
2011 is currently tied for the 10th hottest since records began in 1850 and Arctic sea ice has shrunk to record-low volumes this year, the U.N. weather office said Tuesday.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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New NASA salt mapper to spice up climate forecasts
Salt is essential to human life. Most people don't know, however, that salt -- in a form nearly the same as the simple table variety -- is just as essential to Earth's ocean, serving as a critical driver of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 03, 2011 |
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Bioenergy crops could lower surface temperatures: research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Converting large swaths of farmland to perennial grasses for biofuels could lower regional surface temperatures, according to a recent Stanford study.
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Tropical Atlantic sees weaker trade winds and more rainfall: study
Earth's global temperature has been rising gradually over the last decades, but the warming has not been the same everywhere. Scientists are therefore trying to pin down how the warming has affected regional ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Bering Sea was ice-free and full of life during last warm period, study finds
Deep sediment cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor indicate that the region was ice-free all year and biological productivity was high during the last major warm period in Earth's climate history.
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Dec 13, 2010 |
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Threshold sea surface temperature for hurricanes and tropical thunderstorms is rising
Scientists have long known that atmospheric convection in the form of hurricanes and tropical ocean thunderstorms tends to occur when sea surface temperature rises above a threshold. The critical question ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2010 |
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