Sentences with phrase «abnormal weather events»

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.

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In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

Mental illness is one of the major causes of suffering in the United States, and extreme weather events can affect mental health in several ways.113, 223,114,115,116 First, following disasters, mental health problems increase, both among people with no history of mental illness, and those at risk — a phenomenon known as «common reactions to abnormal events.»

So they return to their central theme of convincing you that normal weather events are abnormal.

El Niño events typically occur in association with abnormal weather patterns, among which strong storms in local areas and flooding in others are some of the most common.