Sentences with phrase «increasing storm impacts»

Increasing storm impacts are also likely to cause fragile branching species (responsible for most structural complexity on reefs) to decline more rapidly than the proportion of massive corals, resulting in low structural complexity on impacted reefs.

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Increased costs to insurers from the suits won't affect rates for hurricane insurance this year but could impact them next year, when insurers negotiate reinsurance contracts based in part on total losses from the September 2017 storm, the president of a large Florida - based insurer said.

Still, increased traffic, how storm water would be diverted, the impact of the Park District facility on nearby property values and whether residents want a new recreational facility at all were some of the concerns expressed by residents.

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major storms.

It cautions that the United States has not done enough to avoid rapid increases in carbon dioxide contributing to rising sea levels, intensifying heat waves and storms, damaging droughts and other impacts.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth's most densely populated areas.

Climate impacts that could affect the DOD's nearly 7,600 sites worldwide include hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing storm frequency and intensity

A gap in storm warning looms But that relative increase for JPSS in 2012 may not be enough to lessen the impact of the program's 2011 budget shortfall.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

Such findings indicate that few places on Earth will be immune to global warming and that the tropics will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as increased tropical storm intensity.»

If tropical storms increase in intensity, then coral reefs will need longer times for recovery from impacts between storm events.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

Impact of ice melt on storms Freshwater injection onto the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans causes increase of sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decrease at polar latitudes.

Married with the direct environmental impacts, the indirect co-benefits created include improved air and water quality and quantity, job training and creation of jobs, lessening of extreme weather patterns, storm protection, pest control, increased recreation and tourism through bird watching, hunting, and fishing, and the creation of new technology.

The company has also introduced peril - based pricing and changes in the products, and is increasing its push to educate customers on how to limit the impact of storms.

An ever increasing coastal population means that the impact of the storms on humans is much greater since so many people lose their homes and businesses.

The assessment considered the impacts of several key drivers of climate change: sea level change; alterations in precipitation patterns and subsequent delivery of freshwater, nutrients, and sediment; increased ocean temperature; alterations in circulation patterns; changes in frequency and intensity of coastal storms; and increased levels of atmospheric CO2.

The increase in water vapour as the surface warms is key, but so might be changes in boundary layer stability, rossby wave generation via longitudinally varying responses at the surface, impacts of the stratopshere on the steering of the jet, and the situation is completely different again for tropical storms.

Even without changing intensity or frequency of storms, the impact of associated storm surges increases with increasing sea levels.

Increased tropical storm intensity will likely be way down on the list of serious impacts of climate change.

While increases in wind shear could offset the impact of tropical temperatures in some — maybe even the majority — of storm seasons, one might worry about what happens during those seasons where there is anomalously low shear (e.g., a very strong La Niña event).

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

The ASCE's report card says, «Without greater attention to aging equipment, capacity bottlenecks, and increased demand, as well as increasing storm and climate impacts, Americans will likely experience longer and more frequent power interruptions.»

Climate change also means more severe storms, increased precipitation, deepening periodic droughts, and other detrimental impacts.

In the event of increasing extreme events such as cyclones (hurricanes)(see Section 16.3.1.3) forest biodiversity could be severely affected, as adaptation responses on small islands are expected to be slow, and impacts of storms may be cumulative.

It finds many significant climate and development impacts are already being felt in some regions, and in some cases multiple threats of increasing extreme heat waves, sea level rise, more severe storms, droughts and floods are expected to have further severe negative implications for the poorest.

Possible increases in storm intensity, rising sea levels, and changes in ice duration and concentration, are projected to increase the severity of negative impacts progressively, particularly by mid-century (Forbes et al., 2004).

These include rising temperatures, increasing carbon dioxide levels, fires, more destructive storms, insect infestation and the impact of woody vines known as lianas.

Pachauri cited concern over rising sea levels, the increased frequency of drought, heat waves and severe storms, as well as threats to agriculture and adverse impacts on the environment.

So potentially you would have more moisture available to this storm, just because the oceans are hotter because of global warming — and that could potentially increase the impacts of a storm like this.

An increase in extreme weather such as droughts, storms, flooding and decreasing rainfalls is already having an impact upon agriculture worldwide.

Coastal zones are particularly vulnerable to sea - level rise and enhanced storms, facing serious impacts including: (1) inundation and displacement of wetlands and lowlands; (2) increased coastal erosion; (3) increased coastal storm flooding; and (4) salinization (Barth & Titus, 1984).

«For property and casualty insurers, climate change represents an important challenge because the rising seas, the increased risk of drought, fire and floods, and the stronger storms that may occur will have a huge impact on the claims of the people insured.»

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power cautions that carbon - based fossil fuel emissions have reached «dangerous levels» with possible impacts to Los Angeles including rising tides; violent storms and floods; hotter, dryer days; increased frequency of wildfires; and reduced water and energy reliability.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

[2] Expected impacts include a sea level rise up to 6 - 7m, melting permafrost in the arctic regions, large - scale agricultural losses, increased water scarcity, a collapse of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean and an increase of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts or devastating storms.

But the impacts of increased extreme winter storms do not stop with winter.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

Impacts: Rising sea levels place the Philippines in a particularly vulnerable position, and increase the threat of storm surges that inundate vast coastal regions, threatening their populations who will be forced to migrate en masse if they are to escape the effects of food insecurity and loss of shelter and livelihood that result.

According to the recent report out in Foreign Policy, and according to other eyewitness accounts and news reports coming in from coastal West Africa during recent years, sea level rise and increasing erosion due to powerful storms continue to produce worsening impacts for the region.

Much of the impacts we presently see are due to salt water invasion of low lying regions, nuisance flooding events, the amplification of storm driven tides, and increasing instances of what are now called king and emperor tides.

Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet... In fact, as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme storms in all seasons, capable of causing greater impacts on society... If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it's too warm for it to snow heavily.

If emissions were to continue unabated and global temperature increases exceed 4 °C, increased rainfall would further enhance the risk of floods by raising river levels, which, combined with sea level rise, could impact as many as 12 million people in Bangladesh, especially if a storm surge from a tropical cyclone compounded these effects.

Not only will climate change directly impact forests and the other natural systems that maintain critical water - related ecosystem services, climate impacts will be experienced largely through the medium of water — melting glaciers, changing rainfall patterns, increased water stress and drought from higher temperatures, more severe storms — resulting in increased water and food insecurity, and constraints on economic opportunity.

Health effects from increased frequency and severity of heat waves, exposure of low - lying coastal areas to severe storms and sea level rise, increased frequency and severity of drought, river flooding, wildfires, and so forth — a wide range of impacts that can have a range of implications for human health and for disruption of our society.

The impacts of a higher sea level can go from permanently flooded areas (below future sea level) to an increase of seasonal and «nuisance» floods, as well as worse (higher) storm surges.