Sentence examples for rise in surface temperature from inspiring English sources

The apparent slowing of the global rise in surface temperature in the first decade of the 21st century – the so-called "hiatus" – had puzzled the scientific community.

Although the rise in surface temperature in recent decades is the most well-known consequence of the thickening blanket of greenhouse gases around the Earth, it represents just a tiny fraction of the extra heat trapped.

Whatever the case, the effect of the potential rise in surface temperature would be to speed up the hydrologic cycle and probably the rate of chemical weathering of continental rocks.

"Observations of ocean heat content and of sea-level rise suggest that the additional heat from the continued rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations has been absorbed in the ocean and has not been manifest as a rise in surface temperature," the Met Office says in one of its three reports into the global warming pause.

In optics-based refreshment technique, light energy incident from a light source dissociates the bond, whereas in temperature-based refreshment techniques the rise in surface temperature of device typically by an integrated heater resistor results in dissociation of covalent bonds.

Some naysayers have pounced on reports that the rise in surface temperature was slower in the past 15 years than over the past 50 years.

What impact will the average rise in surface temperatures in coming decades have on India?

Models simulating centuries of warming normally have the occasional decade in which no rise in surface temperatures is observed.

Just a 2-degree Celsius rise in surface temperatures will push the total losses of these three crops each year to approximately 213 million tons.

Actually, last year President Bush noted the rise in surface temperatures and concentrations of greenhouse gases, and said that "the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity".

More heat was stored in the oceans and other factors also acted to temporarily slow the rise in surface temperatures, but as long as we keep pumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere, the long-term global warming trend will continue.