This independent confirmation neatly side-steps some of the controversies around global warming centering on temperature measurements.
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Humans were tested naked in wind tunnels to assess the impact on temperature.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ) offers future contracts based on temperature and snowfall.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers future contracts based on temperature and snowfall.
In fact, a little computer on the CJ1's center console calculates rotation speed to the knot, based on temperature, altitude and weight aboard.
Equipped with computer-controlled blinds, these walls could, depending on temperature and the need for light, insulate the house or fill it with the sun's rays.
Over the next three decades he dabbled in a variety of new technologies--electric storage batteries, steam- and gas-powered automobiles and a wireless telegraph--but after his death in 1911 the company focused again on temperature controls.
Policies enacted by the developed world, including the U.S., will have little impact on global temperature.
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Natural processes involving changes in the Sun could have at least as powerful an effect on global temperature as increased emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Since the heat it radiates back into space depends on its temperature, the afternoon side of an asteroid radiates more heat than the morning side.
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They have discounted the effect of both on the temperature increase over the last century because they either happen over too short a timescale, or they are too weak.
Before they can make much progress in confirming that suggestion, climatologists need a stream of reliable data on worldwide temperature trends, both at the surface and in the atmosphere.
Right now the focus is on humidity, temperature and barometric pressure, though other environmental variables would be relatively trivial to tack on.
In particular, their assessments have depended heavily on measurements of temperature from ground-based instruments.
It is the place where thermometers recorded the lowest ever temperature on Earth - minus 89C on 21 July 1983.
However, it is not possible to anneal the metal oxides, an active material, at this high temperature on flexible polymer substrates.
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Carbon dioxide is regarded as the most important of the manmade greenhouse gases blamed for raising the temperature on the planet over recent decades.
The temperature on Eros is estimated to vary between 100 degrees Celsius during the day and 150 below zero during the night.
Previously, the highest temperature on the range was 50C, represented by black.
In the polar regions, even the smallest of holes in your warm clothing can have major implications on your core temperature and survival.
The study included data on about half of all Andean glaciers and blamed the melting on an average temperature rise of 0.7C from 1950-1994.
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.
The reason why I will not is that it would be directly inimical to our joint efforts to lower the temperature on transatlantic trade disputes.
The temperature near your skin is greater than the temperature on the surface of your clothes, mainly due to a layer of trapped air near your body.
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The Silent generation ( much like its affinity for Apple iOS) and Boomers were more likely to boost the temperature on the iPad mini, rather than the Kindle Fire HD.
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Although the temperature on Ascension has not changed appreciably in the past 30 years, sea-surface temperatures upwind of it jumped by more than a degree in the 1980s before levelling off.
"I would say that we never had a winter that was less conclusive than this one: the tires last more or less, depending on how much temperature you are able to create, " added Vettel.
That's all thanks to a collection of six sensors, which keep tabs on metrics like temperature, ambient light, humidity and motion -- whether it's fingers about to touch the display or people passing in and out of the room.
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On that occasion, oxygen was pumped into the vessel to supplement the crew's air supply but all it did was fuel the flames of a fire which had already started, raising the temperature on board to 1, 000 degrees Celsius.
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