The surface temperatures of the Atlantic are warmer earlier this year than they were at the same time in 2004, Lepore said.
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.
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and parts of its surface can reach temperatures of 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
The fifth is the observation in reality of a predicted link between increased sea-surface temperatures and the frequency of the most intense categories of hurricane, typhoon and tropical storm.
But surface temperatures in all six of the ocean basins he examined (the north and south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) have increased by about half a degree Celsius.
These short-term global fluctuations are associated principally with natural oscillations of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures summarized in the Nino index in the lower part of the figure. 2012 is nominally the 9th warmest year, but it is indistinguishable in rank with several other years, as shown by the error estimate for comparing nearby years.
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Three groups keep track of global surface temperatures with records that go back more than a century: NOAA, NASA and the British meteorology office.
The buoys also contain weather-sensing devices that test for surface temperatures, subsurface temperatures, wind speed, and other indications of changing weather.
Greenland's surface layer vaulted into the news in summer 2012 when higher than normal temperatures caused surface melting across about 97 percent of the ice sheet.
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There is a scientific consensus that global average surface temperatures will continue to rise as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increase.
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But McNamara's men made light of the freezing temperatures and hard surface to deliver an emphatic display.
And now the Arctic's upper layers are getting less dense, for several reasons: melting Arctic glaciers, rising surface-water temperatures, increased precipitation and an absence of salt concentrations resulting from sea-ice formation.
This is the case for global sea surface temperatures, which alarmists claim should be sucking up much of the predicted human-induced warming.
And while surface stations show slight warming for its Western Peninsula, temperatures over most of the continent have been stable or cooling since 1960.
Australia has some of the highest temperatures in its known near-surface rocks anywhere in the world and its geothermal potential is distributed over the entire country.
Kieran McCarthy of Alliance said the decline of salmon was not fully understood and that rising sea surface temperatures may have had a role to play.
Crops need a sheltered environment, protected from the extreme temperatures and frightening levels of radiation found on the moon's surface, with water, carbon dioxide and light.
Washing generally involves high temperatures, fine sprays (and hence a large surface area) and a lot of sloshing around of water, all of which promote efficient chemical stripping.
According to a new computer model, liquid methane in contact with a partially hydrogen-terminated diamond surface at extremely high pressures and temperatures spontaneously forms longer hydrocarbons, and hence the material of crude oil could be formed deep in the earth.
However, the weather department is still carefully monitoring the sea surface temperatures over the Pacific and Indian oceans, said L.S. Rathore, director general of the India Meteorological Department.
Using the angle of the Sun, the team was able to estimate temperatures on Europa's surface.
"The Earth's hot deserts -- such as the Sahara, the Gobi, the Sonoran and the Lut -- are climatically harsh and so remote that access for routine measurements and maintenance of a weather station is impractical, " said David Mildrexler, lead author of a recent study that used NASA satellites to detect the Earth's hottest surface temperatures.
Changing temperatures in the lake during the winter could have brought stagnant water to the surface, thus asphyxiating entire schools of fish.
Despite the playing surface, freezing temperatures and Manchester United against Real Madrid on TV, the turnout was impressive considering how far some of these players had travelled.
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