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  2. Temperature record of the last 2,000 years - Wikipedia

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    According to IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, in the last 170 years, humans have caused the global temperature to increase to the highest level in the last 2,000 years. The current multi-century period is the warmest in the past 100,000 years. [3] The temperature in the years 2011-2020 was 1.09 °C higher than in 1859–1890.

  3. List of weather records - Wikipedia

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    In recent decades, new high temperature records have substantially outpaced new low temperature records on a growing portion of Earth's surface. [1] Comparison shows seasonal variability for record increases. The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena for various categories. Many weather records are ...

  4. Global surface temperature - Wikipedia

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    The preliminary results of an assessment carried out by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group and made public in October 2011, found that over the past 50 years the land surface warmed by 0.911 °C, and their results mirrors those obtained from earlier studies carried out by the NOAA, the Hadley Centre and NASA's GISS.

  5. 57-year-old Chinese-Chilean table tennis player wins over ...

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    “I came to watch the table tennis grandma,” said Chilean fan Gustavo Ibarra, 14, before Zeng's round-of-16 clash with American Lily Ann Zhang on Tuesday. “Everyone in this country wants to ...

  6. Effects of weather on sport - Wikipedia

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    Temperature has a significant impact on the performance of athletes. High temperature can cause various heat illnesses such as heat cramps and heatstroke, while very low temperatures may lead to hypothermia. In cross country skiing world cup, races are cancelled or postponed if the temperature in a major portion of the course is -25°C or lower ...

  7. Warming stripes - Wikipedia

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    An early (2018) warming stripes graphic published by their originator, climatologist Ed Hawkins. [1] The progression from blue (cooler) to red (warmer) stripes portrays annual increases of global average temperature since 1850 (left side of graphic) until the date of the graphic (right side).

  8. Climate spiral - Wikipedia

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    Climate spirals use changing distance from a center point to represent change of a dependent variable (archetypically, global average temperature). [1] The independent variable, time, is broken down into months (represented by constantly changing rotational angle about the center point) and years (line colour that evolves as years pass). [1] [12]

  9. Tennis players may live 10 years longer. How the sport ... - AOL

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    The study projects that recreational tennis players will live an average of 9.7 years longer than they would have otherwise. (Playing badminton may extend life span by 6.2 years, swimming by 3.4 ...