The phrase
"extreme events" refers to very rare or unusual occurrences that have a significant impact on people, the environment, or society. These events often involve extreme weather conditions, natural disasters, or unexpected situations that are not normal or common.
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The projected increase in intensity
of extreme events in the future would likely have adverse implications for efforts to reduce poverty, particularly in developing countries.
I instead like to focus on mitigation strategies now that would hopefully reduce the probability of
extreme events in the future.
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on extreme events occurring more often than people expect, that is they forget to factor in all the remote possibilities.
... After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long term there is no climate change signal... of increasing damage
from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.
Such a mixed bag isn't uncommon in the relatively young science of
extreme event attribution, as results can be limited by the length of weather observations or the capabilities of climate models.
Scientists cite several statistical indicators that suggest the number of
extreme events like heat waves and floods is rising.
Because there is a limit to how much the sediment below can hold, the ice sheet becomes more vulnerable
during extreme events such as heat waves.
It will still take time for researchers to determine the precise degree to which human - caused warming increased the odds of any one of the
recent extreme events of happening.
For decades, scientists have warned that climate change would
make extreme events like droughts, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires more frequent, more devastating, or both.
Single extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.
Future studies of these weather phenomena may help scientists understand how these systems combine with other climate influences to
affect extreme events.
But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected
particular extreme events.
This kind of disruption seems to be triggered only by
rare extreme events, which occur in average every 20 years or more.
Many climate scientists (including ourselves) routinely answer media calls
after extreme events with the phrase that a particular event can not be directly attributed to global warming.
There are too
few extreme events to make the statistical testing and estimation to work efficiently.
The new research differs from other so -
called extreme event attribution studies, not just in its broad - brush approach, but also in how the term «extreme» is defined.
It will use advanced modeling approaches at high resolution (down to just a few miles) in ways that can help scientists configure future climate models to better
simulate extreme events.
The news this summer has featured several new climate change science reports, and drawn the link between
current extreme events and global warming.
Since we are seeing more and more of this type of devastating
extreme events driven by stalled weather patterns, let's briefly review the science.
And, of course, if under such a scenario it is vulnerable, it continues to become more vulnerable as average temperatures rise and
extreme events become more frequent, and more extreme.
From the 1920's until
now extreme events would have been mostly a result of nature rather than AGW.
Searching for past regional
extreme events through the historical and paleo records should be the focus, rather than working to air brush the past global variability.
What are the contributors to
observed extreme events and to changes in the frequency and intensity of the observed extremes?
One shift from the 2011 analysis is the inclusion in several cases of more than one analysis of the
same extreme event.
The research topics will include data set development, detection and attribution,
extreme events prediction, and event attribution.
This is because a system that successfully keeps the lights on (reliability) necessarily also includes some ability to
withstand extreme events (resilience).
The first is
understanding extreme events and the risks associated with extreme weather and climate events — in the current climate, but also in a future climate.
But climate change is almost certain to lead to more frequent and / or more
intense extreme events like fires, floods, and storms.
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