Average temperature since 1880 has increased more rapidly: A. in the tropics B. in the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere C. change in average temperature has been relatively evenly distributed over Earth
Thing that I enjoyed eating today: Dinner at Bistro Du Vin was excellent (giant portion of grilled beef, stir-fried brocollini (so good we got two portions) and duck liver terrine), and the company – MX, WK and spouses – as usual bumping up the temperature of the hum of the heart...
The original definition of El Niño goes back to the eighteenth or nineteenth century when Peruvian sailors coined the term to describe a warm southward current that appeared annually near Christmas off the Peruvian coast. Hence the name El Niño, Spanish for "the Child," referring to the Ch...
With the above in mind, we need to examine whether taking numerous measurements of the temperatures of land, sea, and air can provide us with a precise value for the ‘temperature’ of Earth. Earth’s ‘Temperature’ By convention, climate is usually defined as the average of meteorologica...
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: May 17, 2025 On average, Uranus radiates the same amount of energy as an ideal, perfectly absorbing surface at a temperature of 59.1 kelvins (K; −353 °F, −214 °C). Temperature decreases with decreasing...