Severe weather variability has affected harvests around the world but the many of the tools to enhance food security are within our grasp.
Not exact matches
More
severe and / or frequent extreme
weather events and / or hazard types are projected to increase losses and loss
variability in various regions and challenge insurance systems to offer affordable coverage while raising more risk - based capital, particularly in developing countries.
«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean,
variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and
weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other
severe weather events worldwide.»»
Current changes are well within natural
variability, despite Gore's false claims about increasing
severe weather.
Mark Anderson Associate professor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Specialties: Polar
weather and climate,
weather analysis and forecasting, climate change and
variability, remote sensing,
severe weather
For all stations across the country, there is no preferential value of AWSSI with ENSO
variability, though there does seem to be a decline in
severe winter
weather for the most extreme El Niño values.
Polar cap
variability leads increased
severe weather up to 19 days.