World's warmest winter.The long-term trend toward warmer temperatures and a moderate El Nino in the Pacific combined to make this past winter the warmest on record, Reuters reports. That's the word from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and (NOAA NOAA abbr. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. NOAA - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; ), which has kept records of world temperature since 1880. Jay Lawrimore of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. told Reuters that while "we don't say this winter is evidence of the influence of greenhouse gases," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “IPCC” redirects here. For other uses, see IPCC (disambiguation). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment , with which NOAA works, has found that climate chance is happening and that the actions of humans affect that. "So we know as a part of that, the conclusions have been reached and the warming trend is due in part to rises in greenhouse gas emissions," Lawrimore told Reuters. "By looking at long-term trends and long-term changes, we are able to better understand natural and anthropogenic an·thro·po·gen·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to anthropogenesis. 2. Caused by humans: anthropogenic degradation of the environment. [human-caused] climate change." The second warmest winter on record was 2004, NOAA reports. The 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1995. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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