2006: Long term average high and low temperatures (dark lines) to the actual daily high and low temperatures in New York City’s Central Park. Although the average temperatures vary gradually as the seasons change, temperatures fluctuate wildly from day-to-day” (NASA). “Although any individual event cannot be attributed unequivocally to climate change, the probability of such high temperature events increases with the underlying trend of rising mean temperature,” wrote Will Steffen, earth scientist and Director of the Australian National University’s Institute for Environment (Steffen, 2006).
Reference: NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalWarmingUpdate/global_warming_update4.html; Steffen, W. (2006). Stronger Evidence but New Challenges: Climate Change Science 2001-2010. Australian Gov’t. http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/science/publications/pubs/science2001-05.pdf
Image Description: See case description. NASA graph by Robert Simmon, based on data from the National Weather Service Forecast Office. Image Location: NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalWarmingUpdate/global_warming_update4.html Image Permission: This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that “NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted”.
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