Sentences with phrase «recent weather disasters»

Recent weather disasters — flooding across Asia and hurricanes hitting the US and Caribbean — have only increased the volume from commentators and politicians who tell us: «This is what climate change looks like.»

The piece nicely summarizes why this storm, unlike other recent weather disasters with a climate - change component, has prompted so many politicians, including President Obama, to end their self - imposed silence on global warming.

Not exact matches

With a series of severe weather events in recent years, power providers across the region have updated their plans to get ready for and respond to weather, and in some cases, man - made disasters.

Recent research shows how spaces like urban canyons create distinctive weather patterns — and how to prevent them from causing weather disasters.

Flooding is one of the most common of all weather - related disasters, affecting more than two billion people across the planet in recent decades (CRED, 2015).

Outdated knowledge systems have exacerbated recent disasters and contributed to growing financial losses from extreme weather.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

However, over recent years, the Maldives» underwater world as a whole has weathered a few storms and natural disasters and now needs help be restored.

They thoght that recent big disasters of weather were caused by global warming.

And the odds go down from there on attributing other recent shifts in weather - related disasters to global warming.

Recent weather - related natural disasters have driven home the point that insurance companies don't cover flood damage.

Hurricane Sandy and other recent weather - related disasters, like this week's intense flooding and monstrous sea foam levels in Australia, are a direct result of climate change, former vice president Al Gore said Tuesday.

Flooding is one of the most common of all weather - related disasters, affecting more than two billion people across the planet in recent decades (CRED, 2015).

Following a series of recent devastating extreme weather events — mudslides in Sierra Leone, flooding in south Asia, and severe storms hitting the Philippines and the Gulf of Mexico, many have called attention to the role of climate change in these disasters.

«Joseph Stromberg reports at the Smithsonian that if there's one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in climate change, it's the insurance industry and in recent years, insurance industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather - related disasters say they're seeing something new.

If there's one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in climate change, it's the insurance industry and in recent years, insurance industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather - related disasters say they're seeing something new.

We're being hit by more and more multi-billion dollar climate & weather disasters like hurricane Sandy, the recent Great Plains heat waves and (most likely) ongoing «unprecedented» flooding in Colorado — disasters pushed beyond their natural variability by the changing conditions of our new climate.

The evidence is piling up that «climate change,» formerly known as «global warming,» is losing evidentiary support, despite recent «preliminary findings» by a group of «experts» from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that a Washington Post editorial suggests may prove, «warming has boosted the chances, in some cases significantly, that certain unwelcome weather or weather - related disasters will occur.»

While former statistics showed that the total destruction of a house was unlikely, recent statistical data of weather disasters and its devastating results demonstrates quite another picture.

Recent events in the cruise have also included disabled ships, severe weather delays, and other disasters that have left a lot of frustrated and unhappy passengers in their wake.