Sentences with phrase «average global flood»
Average global flood losses in 2005 are estimated to be approximately $ 6 billion per year (U.S. dollars), increasing to $ 52 billion by 2050 with projected socio - economic change alone.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
As we flood the atmosphere with more CO2, and average global temperatures rise, some areas of the planet are getting wetter.
But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.
Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.
[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)
Let me see if I got it right: (1) With GW we're not sure of getting much change in overall global average precip, but when when it rains it pours... & floods, which also means on the flip side we would expect increasing periods of no precip (aka droughts), since the global average precip is not changing.
Global temperature averages are creeping upward, seas are warming, rising and becoming more acidic, and extreme weather events such as droughts, wildfires, floods and powerful storms are more commonplace.
These include Pope Francis's encyclical, record warm global - average temperatures, the Paris international climate accord, severe droughts, and severe floods.
By the late 21st century, climate models project that sea level will rise up to a foot higher than the global average along the northeast US coastline, resulting in a dramatic increase in regional coastal flood risk.
Boutrous pointed out that while global sea levels are rising on average, some evidence shows that sea levels have fallen in specific regions, and coastal flooding in places like the San Francisco Bay Area is also a function of local conditions like land subsidence.
In the Northeast United States, sea levels are rising up to four times faster than the global average, making this area more vulnerable to storm surge and flooding.
By 2100, global average sea level rise could be as low as 25 cms, or as high as 123 cms; between 0.2 % and 4.6 % of the world's population could be affected by flooding each year; and losses could be as low as 0.3 % or as high as 9.3 % of global gross domestic product.
Coastal cities in the United States could experience an average of 30 days of flooding each year due to sea level rise driven by global warming, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warns.
The warming (WV is a ghg) is welcome (countering the average global cooling which would otherwise be occurring as a result of declining net effect of ocean cycles and a declining proxy which is the time - integral of SSN anomalies) but the added WV increases the risk of precipitation related flooding.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its provisional Statement on the State of the Climate this week, estimating that 2017 is likely to be one of the warmest years for global average surface temperature, with many high - impact events including catastrophic hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.
It is clear that in terms of weather, environmental health, extreme events, snow, rain drought and flood, the impact of a global average is trivial or less.
Socialists of all stripes no longer have to spew Marxist notions that turn most people off; now, they can talk the science of global warming and hurricanes and massive floods and such, and, using fear, trample the average guy into their socialist goals of stifling capitalism, growth, and having the government take over the economy through this environmental back - door.
Moreover, rising global average temperatures lead to longer pollen seasons in many places and — when combined with stronger rainfall events, flooding, and higher humidity — create the perfect environment for mold to flourish.
Anyway, on the other hand, if CO2 keeps going up, and global average temperature keeps going up, and say, 30 % of humanity is killed off by monster typhoons, floods, fires, droughts, sea level rise, etc, in the next 20 years, I'll be more amenable to your point of view:)