Secondly, we need to know what the temperature rise from any one set of emissions is going to be.

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For instance, the low temperature of 83 recorded early Tuesday in North Little Rock, Arkansas, set a new record for the warmest low in July, Vaccaro said.

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While we're on the topic of settings, you can set a maximum and minimum temperature, along with a four-digit password -- you know, so that the kiddies don't have too much fun using that click wheel to crank up the heat.

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As it currently stands, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has set a target of limiting the rise in global mean temperature to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.

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It combines an Arduino-compatible processor with a light sensor, a temperature sensor, a 3-axis accelerometer, a joystick, a set of pushbuttons, a slider, an RGB LED, and a buzzer.

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As reported on the website Real Science, forty percent of weather stations in the Historical Climatology Network set their all-time record maximum temperature during the 1930s.

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While he could have made a spiffy set of charts, Larsen claims that there are certain parameters, like sunlight and temperature, that give the data a structure that lends itself to musical representation.

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