Sentences with phrase «address changing weather»

As we watch the companies try to address changing weather patterns and increased storm activity we will see changing products on property insurance.

Supporting the program's initiation, Cuomo argued the need to address changing weather patterns made NY Rising a priority.

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In an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.

Workshop Goal: Provide Lake Erie / Niagara River region municipal leaders with training on severe weather and climate change impacts as well as some of the tools, resources, and programs that can be used to identify and address vulnerabilities and increase community resiliency to those impacts.

They argue that while large public investments in dams and flood defences, for example, must account for the possibilities of how weather might change in the future, this should not prevent short - term thinking to address more immediate vulnerability to inevitable high - impact weather events.

Researchers from several institutes around Europe have now looked into the scientific literature that addresses these global changes to examine the interactions between biodiversity and extreme weather events.

Well, I didn't address whether or not there was one, I only pointed out that using weather forecasts to explain climate change is a bad idea.

It's unfortunate that we have to have these weather events, but there is a silver lining if you wish, that they remind us is solving climate change, addressing climate change in a timely way, is not a partisan issue.

Dr Curry's DOD Proposal re: «extreme weather events, climate variability and change, and their implications for regional security» might well address consequences of shifts to either hot or cold.

In addressing the challenge of food security and climate change, the world faces therefore three inter-related challenges: first, the need to double food production by 2050 to meet growing world demand; second, the need to adapt agricultural production to shifting weather patterns; and third, the need to minimize agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions while maximizing its potential to mitigate climate change.

Moving to the ocean or warding off severe weather is only one way to address climate change.

«The road to resilience — managing and financing extreme weather risks» report is the first in a series that addresses the need for more investment and system change to combat the new emerging risks, including extreme weather, the energy water food nexus and cyber risks.

The «silver lining» of the extreme weather we've been seeing, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres suggested Wednesday, is that climate change is now becoming too real to ignore: «It's unfortunate that we have to have these weather events,» she told the Guardian, but they're also a reminder that «solving climate change, addressing climate change in a timely way, is not a partisan issue.»

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

This policy document consists of a COP 16 position paper presenting the role that the weather, climate and hydrological communities can play in effectively addressing the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

I came across this essay today by Joel Kotkin on Houston and Hurricane Harvey, that isn't directly related to sea level rise, but is an excellent argument for urban planners to build resilience to address future climate change and weather disasters.

The Paris Agreement is the best instrument for addressing threats to development posed by climate change, such as forest fires, extreme weather and more.

These include claiming that addressing climate change will keep the poor in «energy poverty»; citing the global warming «hiatus» or «pause» to dismiss concerns about climate change; pointing to changes in the climate hundreds or thousands of years ago to deny that the current warming is caused by humans; alleging that unmitigated climate change will be a good thing; disputing that climate change is accelerating sea level rise; and denying that climate change is making weather disasters more costly.

In his most recent State of the Union address, President Obama said that extreme weather events have become «more frequent and intense,» and he linked Superstorm Sandy to climate change.

The significant impacts of extreme weather on people, property, communities and the environment highlight the serious consequences of failing to adequately address climate change.

Precise predictions of hurricane tracks and intensity; heavy rain; severe storms; fire weather; air quality and chemistry, and climate change address societal challenges that include disaster mitigation, economic decision making, health concerns, travel and workplace safety, long range planning, and day to day decisions (an umbrella or a heavy coat, for example).

The point I'm making is that, with LIMITED RESOURCES, to address the situation, we need to evaluate how many go into reducing Greenhouse Gases and how much goes into engineering and relocation projects to handle rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, and the many natural disasters that can result from each.

Namely, we should stop narrowly defining adaptation policy as only addressing anthropogenic (aka man made) climate change impacts and instead define it as addressing resilience to extreme climate and weather, regardless of the cause.

Blue - Action: Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate is a Research and Innovation action (RIA) funded by the Horizon 2020 Work programme topics addressed: BG -10-2016 Impact of Arctic changes on the weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere.

This episode addressed Dr. Francis» hypothesis that climate change might causing a «drunken Arctic» and slowed down jet stream; a phenomenon which might result in the kind of extreme winter weather we've been having this year.

The night before President Barack Obama was set to address Californians stricken by a prolonged drought, White House science czar Dr. John Holdren told reporters that virtually all weather is being impacted by climate change and that droughts were getting «more frequent, they're getting longer and they're getting dryer.»

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said efforts to address climate change should focus on engineering methods to adapt to shifting weather patterns and rising sea levels rather than trying to eliminate use of fossil fuels.

He also knows that with increasingly common extreme weather causing droughts for Delaware farmers and driving violent storms toward its coasts, climate change is a real threat that must be addressed by innovating away from reliance on fossil fuels.

Action that addresses the interlinked challenges of disaster risk, sustainable development and climate change is a core priority given that 90 % of recorded major disasters caused by natural hazards from 1995 to 2015 were linked to climate and weather including floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts.

Sessions then raised the point that plenty of his constituents complain about the EPA's «extraordinary overreach» and that he'd like McCarthy to address statistics on droughts, hurricanes and other weather events cited as evidence of climate change.

The interest in addressing climate change has historically been cyclical, most recently going back to former U.S. vice president Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, but environmental lawyers believe interest is gearing back up, in some part due to increasingly extreme weather events as we saw this past summer, causing more momentum at the regulatory level.

Because of this our address, weather, and conditions changed all the time.