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Scientists started predicting a global temperature record months ago, in canada goose coats part because an El Nio weather pattern, one of the largest in canada goose coats on sale a century, is releasing an immense amount of heat from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere. But the bulk of the record setting heat, they say, is a consequence of the long term planetary warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
cheap Canada Goose “The whole system is warming up, relentlessly,” said Gerald A. Meehl, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
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Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, calculated that if the global climate were not warming, the odds of setting two back to back record years would be remote, about one chance in every 1,500 pairs of years. Given the reality that the planet is warming, the odds become far higher, about one chance in 10, according to Dr. cheap Canada Goose Mann’s calculations.
Canada Goose Parka Two American government agencies NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration compile separate analyses of the global temperature, based upon thousands of measurements from weather stations, ships and ocean buoys scattered around the world. Meteorological agencies in Britain and uk canada goose outlet Japan do so, as canada goose uk shop well. The agencies follow slightly different methods to cope with problems in the data, but obtain similar results.
buy canada goose jacket cheap The American agencies released figures on Wednesday showing that 2015 was the warmest year in a global record that began, in their data, in 1880. British scientists released canada goose black friday sale figures showing 2015 as the warmest in a record dating to 1850. The Japan Meteorological Agency had already released preliminary Canada Goose online results showing canada goose store 2015 as the warmest year in a record beginning in 1891.
canada goose black friday sale On Jan. 7, NOAA reported that 2015 was the second warmest year on record, after 2012, for the lower 48 cheap canada goose uk United States. That land mass covers less than 2 percent of the surface of the Earth, so it is not unusual to have a slight divergence between United States temperatures and those of the planet as a canada goose clearance whole.
The end of buy canada goose jacket cheap the year was especially remarkable in the United States, with virtually every state east canada goose of the Mississippi River having a record warm December, often accompanied by heavy rains.
canada goose deals A warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, and an intensification of rainstorms was one of the fundamental predictions made by climate scientists decades ago as a consequence of human emissions. That prediction has come to pass, with the rains growing more intense across every region of the United States, but especially so in the East.
The term Canada Goose Online global warming is generally taken to refer to the temperature trend at the surface of the planet, and those are the figures reported by the agencies on Wednesday.
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Some additional measurements, of shorter cheap canada goose duration, are available for the ocean depths and the atmosphere above the surface, both generally showing an inexorable long term warming trend.
Most satellite measurements of the lower and middle layers of the atmosphere show 2015 canada goose clearance sale to have buy canada goose jacket been the third or fourth warmest year in a 37 year record, and scientists said it was slightly surprising that the huge El Nio had not produced a greater warming there. They added that this could yet happen in 2016.
Canada Goose sale When temperatures are averaged at a global scale, the differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree. In the NOAA data set, 2015 was 0.29 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 2014, the largest jump ever over a previous record. NASA calculated a slightly smaller figure, but still described it as an unusual one year increase.
canadian goose jacket The intense warmth of 2015 contributed to a heat wave in India last spring that turns out to have been the second worst in that country’s history, killing an estimated 2,500 people. The long term global warming trend has exacted a severe toll from extreme heat, with eight of the world’s 10 deadliest heat waves occurring since 1997.
canada goose clearance sale Only rough estimates of heat deaths are available, but according to figures from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, in Brussels, the toll over the past two decades is approaching 140,000 people, with most of those deaths occurring during a European heat wave in 2003 and a Russian heat wave in 2010.
canada https://www.cheapcanadagoose.net goose The strong El Nio has continued into 2016, raising the possibility that this year will, yet again, set a global temperature record. The El Nio pattern is also disturbing the circulation of the atmosphere, contributing to worldwide canada goose uk black friday weather extremes that include a drought in southern Africa, threatening the food supply of millions.
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