Sentence examples for average temperature rise from inspiring English sources

Already – with an average temperature rise of less than 1C – climate change kills more than 300,000 people each year.

Principally they have agreed to keep the average temperature rise "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels.

The heatwaves seen in Europe during 2003, which killed tens of thousands of people, will come back every year with a 2C global average temperature rise.

There is a politically agreed global target – driven by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – to limit the global average temperature rise to 2C.

The Arctic sea ice is already disappearing and, after a 1C global average temperature rise, it would disappear for good in the summer months.

This week, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization released data showing that over the past year Australia has had the biggest average temperature rise in the world.

Temperature records were set in every state and territory, and the national daily average temperature rose to unprecedented levels.

Many parts of southern Europe could face desertification if global average temperature rises by significantly more than 2 centigrade degrees".

As the global average temperature rises, it alters weather systems, changing patterns of heat and cold and shifting wind currents.

Because few crops can withstand average temperature rises of more than 2C, Latin America expects to be seriously affected by a warming climate and more extreme weather.

On Friday the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) said the offers fell significantly short of what was needed for a 66% chance of stopping the average temperature rising by 2C or more.