Facts: Global surface temperature rose about three-fourths of a degree Celsius in the 20th century.
As temperatures drop as low as five degrees Celsius in some places, normal life in the state is being seriously hampered.
Higher as in 1, 200 degrees Celsius, which would heat air hot enough to run a high efficiency turbine like those used in fossil fuel power plants.
The company has come up with a designer thermal salt that can hit temperatures in the 700 degree Celsius range, or far hotter than the 500 degree Celsius temperatures possible with ordinary salts.
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The company that sells the pews, Polarheat, says that when the temperature in Poland drops to minus 10 degrees celsius it can be as cold as minus 15 in many churches.
In a study with only 20 participants, he found that those who consumed a diet drink called Celsius, which debuted in 2005, burned more calories than when they drank diet cola.
Stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at 550 ppm -- which would invoke a rise in temperature of about three degrees Celsius -- would require energy emissions to rise no higher than 33 gigatons and would need to fall in the longer term.
In addition to consuming less power, the drive operates four degrees Celsius cooler, requiring less cooling in the system rack and data center.
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Evidence of past explosions is revealed in the image - huge lobes of 20-million-degree Celsius gas (the red loops in the image at approximately the 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock positions) that extend over dozens of light-years on either side of the black hole.
Temperatures in Melbourne were in the mid-30s Celsius (mid-90s Fahrenheit) on Tuesday.
And it can do it in minus 50-degree Celsius temperatures.
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Across the region average temperatures have been around two degrees higher than the seasonal norm, with temperatures in Austria reaching 18 degrees Celsius -- nearly 20 degrees higher than the monthly average.
"It may be easy for you, but for me it's the most terrifying thing in the world, " says Joe, who is currently spending his days playing computer games with friends and occasionally practicing rugby with his father in the scorching 48 degree Celsius August heat.
Today, this result is emulated by either heating the wine to between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius after fermentation in stainless steel vats, or placing it in casks that sit on the top floor of wine cellars to bake in the heat for two years.
Periodic ice ages going back 10, 000 years show extreme temperature swings, exceeding 6 degrees Celsius within 50 years in some cases, said Richard Sommerville, meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The government has established a national adaptation strategy and major infrastructure providers are having to set out their plans for keeping the country running in a future projected to be several Celsius hotter, with more extreme weather events and higher sea levels around the coast.
Higher up the mine just above the refuge and in the workshop, temperatures hit around 30 Celsius, according to Fortt.
These crystals, the size of ice cubes, are grown slowly in ovens heated as high as 980 degrees Celsius, increasing by just one centimeter a day.
They plan to travel almost 4, 000 kilometers (2, 485 miles) through icy wilderness mostly in complete darkness and in temperatures as low as minus 90 degrees Celsius.
After several days of 40-plus temperatures this week and a forecast for temperatures in the Hunter Valley to reach 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit) again on Saturday, plus the possibility of thunderstorms, the winemakers face some tough decisions.
This 100-nanometer membrane, comprising the electrolyte and electrodes, has to be thin enough to allow ions to pass through it at a relatively low temperature (which, for ceramic fuel cells, lies in the range of 300 to 500 degrees Celsius).
If this current stopped, the average temperature in Europe might fall by five to ten degrees Celsius.
In the deeper mines the heat can reach 400 Celsius, and men work by the light of a single flame.
Singapore has year-round temperatures of around 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) and the farm is set in an open area designated by the government as an agro-technology park, miles away from the shadow of city skyscrapers.
The report said the blanket of heat-trapping gases has already raised ground temperatures by one-half degree Celsius (1.1 F) in the last 100 years, and scientists say the pace could quicken dramatically over the next 100 unless pollution is limited.
The European Environment Agency says the average temperature on the continent in the last decade was already 1.3 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level.
Summer temperatures in the Lone Star State averaged 30.4 degrees Celsius (86.7 degrees Fahrenheit) -- 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average, according to the WMO and the highest-ever recorded in any American state.
Temperatures in the cave are below 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius), the Russian news agency reported.
In 1922, the highest recorded shade temperature, 58 degrees Celsius, 136 Fahrenheit, was recorded at Al Aziziyah, Libya.
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