The Analysis of Global Warming Patterns from 1970s to 2010s

Abstract

While global warming is only one part of climate change effects, it poses the highest risk to our habitats and ecologies. It is alarming that global warming has heightened in multiple locations and is intensified since the early 1970s. Since then, there are certain global warming patterns that could guide us with an overview of what mitigation and adaptation strategies should be developed in the future decades. There are certain regions affected more than another, and there are certain patterns with adverse effects on regions, sub-regions, and even continents. This study provides an insightful analysis of recent global warming patterns, those that are affecting us the most with regional climate change of different types, upsurge in frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and drastic impacts on our ecosystems around the world. By analysing the global warming patterns of these last four decades, this research study sheds light on where these patterns are coming from, how they are developing, and what are their impacts. This study is conducted through grey literature and analysis of the recorded global warming data publicly available by the NASA-GISS data centre for global temperature. This brief-but comprehensive-analysis helps us to have a better understanding of what comes next for global warming impacts, and how we should ultimately react. The study contributes to the field by discovering three key points analysed based on available data and literature on recorded global temperature, including: differences between north and south hemispheres, specific patterns due to ocean surface temperature increase, and recent impacts on particular regions. The study concludes with the importance of global scale analysis to have a more realistic understanding of the global warming patterns and their impacts on all living habitats.

Investigating the Effects of Sea Ice Melting on Oceanic Warming in the Arctic

“…In 1938, humans first noticed signs of climate change [1], and over the past 40 years, we have noticed significant global warming patterns across the planet [2]. Recent global warming trends in the Arctic as a result of greenhouse gas emissions and anthropogenic forcing have shown their impacts in a multitude of ways, primarily through changes in atmospheric [3] and oceanic temperatures [4], as well as sea ice concentration [5].…”

Temperature Trend Analysis and Investigation on a Case of Variability Climate

“…The climatic variations of the past and the present and the estimation of those future observations may be the indispensable prerequisite for the assessment of climate impacts and for the definition of strategies and plans for adaptation to such changes. Several studies have been conducted in order to identify the presence of significant trends for some climatic variables, measuring in more or less broad geographical domains [13][14][15][16][17][18].…”