Sentence examples for average global warming from inspiring English sources

But much more was needed, from the US and other nations, to get the world on track to meet the UN goal of limiting average global warming to 2C over pre-industrial revolution levels, they warned.

Correction: August 1, 2003, Friday A chart yesterday with an article about the growing popularity of big pickup trucks reversed the labels on two lines showing the trend in average global warming gases emitted by cars and all light vehicles.

But the aggregate effect of all countries' plans will be calculated, allowing evaluation next year of whether the world has done enough to limit average global warming to the agreed goal of under 2C.

"Our December update included pledges and informal announcements by China, the US and the EU, and we estimated an average global warming level of 3.1C," said CAT member Dr Louise Jeffery of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

By contrast, the study panel found that over the same 20-year period, the satellite record showed an average global warming rate in the lower to middle free atmosphere of zero degrees to 1.8 degrees per century.

Australia, along with 179 other countries, has signed the climate treaty brokered in Paris last year, aiming to limit average global warming to "well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C".

We've observed about 0.6°C average global surface warming over the past 60 years.

In fact, over the past two decades, we've seen over 0.3°C average global surface warming, according to the best estimates.

Today, virtually every climatologist agrees that average global temperatures, warming rates and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are higher than at any time in the earth's recent past, and that the main cause is greenhouse gas emissions by humans.

Nordhaus' DICE model agrees well with Hope's PAGE model regarding the negative impacts of climate change on the global economy for 0 to 2°C average global surface warming, after which they only disagree on just how quickly climate change will badly hurt the economy.

Trenberth and Fasullo note that using their ocean heating estimate by itself would increase the equilibrium climate sensitivity estimate in the paper referenced by Ridley from 2°C to 2.5°C average global surface warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and using other more widespread accepted values would bring the estimate in line with the standard value of 3°C.