Sentences with phrase «about extreme weather events»

Well Mr Rose, you have asked me a question about extreme weather events and climate.

«For those of you that read the report, you'll notice that the Peabody side made claims about the natural variability of Earth's climate, about Earth temperature changes, and about extreme weather events.»

When asked about extreme weather events, Christy also downplays the influence of man - made climate change:

As long as we're talking about extreme weather events and attribution... although Kerry Emanuel is usually the go - to guy for the study of increasing tropical cyclone intensity, his 2005 and 2011 (linked to above by Stefan) papers being the most cited, there is a limitation of scope in that only the North Atlantic basin is covered by these papers, AFAIK.

Why do people care about extreme weather events?

Despite the understanding gained through this study, many questions about extreme weather events remain.

For this reason, many people think we should focus first on compensating people harmed by these processes — Pacific islands whose shorelines are gradually disappearing underwater for instance — and worry about extreme weather events once the science has caught up.

For instance, if a segment about an extreme weather event mentioned climate change briefly, the entire segment was counted as climate coverage.

Not exact matches

That means that just about every estimate is an underestimate, and the damage totals from extreme weather events are rising.

There's been plenty of talk over the past month or so about the impact that the extreme weather events north of the border will have on food and grocery prices, vegetables and bananas especially.

Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more extreme weather events.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

But Foley hopes that, after the election, Hurricane Sandy will spur a long - term discussion about climate change and extreme weather events.

Carolyn Gramling writes about studies that, for the first time, blame specific extreme weather events on human - caused climate change — certain to be a hot topic in 2018.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events.

Nicola Jones catches up with Julia Slingo, chief scientist at the UK Met Office in Exeter, Devon, about how natural disasters and extreme weather events over the past 12 months have changed what Britain's national weather centre does.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

«In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

We review the latest extreme weather events and talk to a leading scientist about the impact of global warming.

Here is the # 1 flawed reasoning you will have seen about this question: it is the classic confusion between absence of evidence and evidence for absence of an effect of global warming on extreme weather events.

Joanna Walters links extreme weather events with climate change in a recent article in the Guardian, however, some reservations have been expressed about such links in past discussions.

«So it seems that the answer to my question about whether an actual statistical signal for anthropogenic extreme weather events has emerged to a greater level of confidence since the last IPCC report is no, not definitively.

While others argue endlessly about what are the «appropriate» words and phrases what can be said and not said about «climate change» and «global warming» and their now obvious inter-connectedness and systemic causation regards 21st century «extreme weather events».

In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

More than 20 years of effort have not led to presidents or prime ministers — nor even their climate change ministers — making factually accurate statements about climate change, and especially the link between climate change and extreme weather events.

Much of what is of concern to the military is extreme weather events (e.g. Pakistan floods) driven by natural climate variability and random weather roulette (concerns about sea level rise and the opening of the Arctic Ocean are linked more closely to AGW)

The place to learn about climate science: This year provides a unique opportunity, given recent weather events, to connect with leading experts on climate change and extreme weather.

What about implications for our social, political and economic landscape of the established links between anthropogenic climate change and high - impact extreme weather and climate events?

In summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changes.

The 1 C change in avg temp is a proxy for increases in extreme weather event, drought, etc which I do care about.)

Further reinforcing the urgency of phasing out coal are the more extreme weather events that climate scientists have been warning about for decades.

No one knows to what extent the charges against us will be retroactive, but for the first time, the costs of extreme weather events all over the world are about to be added to our bill.

This research shows how extreme weather events in a single year could bring about price spikes of comparable magnitude to two decades of long - run price rises.

For instance, extreme weather events occurred with about the same frequency during the 1945 - 77 global cooling period as they do today, yet no climate scientist pointed to human activity as being responsible in the earlier period.

This extreme weather event made me curious about how weather worked and the environment, and how weather could be so bad that it could cause destruction and also death.

Join us for a conversation about how extreme weather events could make us less concerned, not more.

Bob Ward, policy and communications Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotlight.

While the UN's latest global warming report rightfully lowers alarm about the link between climate change and extreme weather events, it does warn of increased risk of wildfires.

Look At the Trends in Extreme Weather and See the State of the World BY EDITOR OF THE FABIUS MAXIMUS WEBSITE ON 5 APRIL 2017 • Summary: Climate activists make bold claims about extreme weather caused by our CO2 emissions, attributing most big weather events to CO2's influence.

Susan Joy Hassol and colleagues published an article about communicating the connections between extreme weather events and climate change in the World Meteorological Organisation Bulletin, Nov. 2016.

In fact, climate scientists have developed increasingly accurate scenarios about the impact climate change is having already in supercharging extreme weather events.

Jeff Masters, a meteorologist with a bent to blaming every weather event on global warming, chose to make some extreme claims about hot ocean temperatures that are... er... well, bizarre for someone with a science background.

This, like any specific extreme weather event, can not be conclusively linked to global warming (scientifically), but it is exactly what climatologists have been projecting and warning us about for years.

P.S.: Judith Curry v. oilprice.com, 8/22/14, says, The impact of extreme weather events in raising concern about global warming became apparent following Hurricane Katrina.

He was sceptical about science that linked climate change to the increased likelihood of extreme weather events or bushfires.

A range of developing country stakeholders are demanding information about the role of climate change in individual extreme weather events, as evidenced by the following:

«The climate has always changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates of change of temperature, of ice volume, of sea level or of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.

In this article, we discuss what is known and not known about how climate change will alter extreme weather events beyond just the precipitation that they produce.

A Small Business Majority opinion poll released a month earlier found that the majority of small employers — about 60 percent — believe climate change and extreme weather events are an urgent problem that can disrupt the economy and harm businesses.