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Low-High range in global temperature increase: +0.6°C to +1.5°C and upThe global temperature graph makes it clear that for several years now, average surface temperatures have consistently surpassed 1.5°C above their pre-industrial values. Let’s dig into these time periods a bit more clos...
the type of proxy observation, the name of the variable used as the temperature-sensitive time series and its units, the physical feature whose temperature is sensed by the proxy (e.g., surface air temperature, sea-surface temperature), the part of the seasonal cycle recorded by the proxy...
The graph above represents the latest update; updates are usually made within the first week of every month. Contrary to some reports, the satellite measurements are not calibrated in any way with the global surface-based thermometer records of temperature. They instead use their own on-board pre...
It is a graph of global temperature over the last 1,000 years, largely flat for 900 years with a sharp upturn at the end (thus the `Hockey Stick' tag). It denies long-established knowledge about the climate of the last 1,000 years, particularly the `Medieval Warm Period' (MWP) ...
• 310m more people will suffer adverse health consequences related to temperature increases • 20m more people will fall into poverty • 75m extra people will be displaced by climate change. Climate change is expected to have the most severe impact on water supplies, it said. “Shortages ...
used to relate the proxy data to surface temperature. Nevertheless, all studies as reviewed in theIPCC’s FourthAssessmentReport (AR4), which was published in 2007, indicate that the average surface temperature since about 1950 is higher than at any time during the previous 1,000 years....
[3]. Five years later, Casaet al.[4] found that the gastrointestinal temperature was the only measurement that accurately assessed BCT. Moreover, they found that oral, axillary, aural, temporal and field forehead temperatures were significantly different from the rectal temperature and, therefore,...
This argument uses regional temperature data that ends in 1855, long before modern global warming began. 146 "The sun is getting hotter" The sun has just had the deepest solar minimum in 100 years. 147 "A grand solar minimum could trigger another ice age" Peer-reviewed research, physics, ...
We must take into account socio-ecological Planetary BoundariesFootnote 15 within which societies can safely exist and operate, such as a 1.5–2.0 °C global temperature rise, excess loss of terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems that provide essential ecological services, etc. These Planetary ...