Sentences with phrase «affect extreme weather»

Now the scientific community is faced with a new question: asking not whether humans affect extreme weather events, but assuming they do and instead questioning the extent of their impact.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

So it seems the discussions around how best to get across to the public how climate change is affecting extreme weather will rumble on for a bit longer.

Climate change is already affecting extreme weather.

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There are the obvious ways: building and constantly improving the infrastructure necessary to predict hurricanes and other extreme weather, collecting images of disasters to guide emergency response workers, and tracking sea level changes around the world that affect coastlines and the Navy.

Online, more than 11,000 Global Citizens have called on world leaders to help the millions of people affected by extreme weather around the world in the past year.

While numerous relief organizations have brought support to people affected by extreme weather, All Hands and Hearts focuses on working in areas with the «greatest need,» Muldowney said.

Wine does not like extremes of temperature: hot humid summer and cold winter weather may adversely affect the condition of your wine during shipment.

Vice President Joe Biden joined Governor Andrew Cuomo in Albany today to discuss rebuilding New York state and strengthening infrastructure affected by extreme weather.

Further, such extreme events will affect other species in the region, which have long existed under more predictable weather regimes.

He just completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, where he studied how the increase in extreme weather events due to climate change is affecting people's health.

So Campbell - Staton and his team went back in the spring to see how the extreme weather had affected the lizards.

It speaks eloquently of stewardship of God's creation and care for the poor, those already affected by the exacerbating impacts of climate change on droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather.

Coastal communities are being affected by rising seas, drought - prone areas are arid for longer periods and, as our report shows, infectious agents are taking advantage of these more extreme weather patterns.

Perhaps we think of farmers or fishermen first, but extreme weather will affect many more people in other ways too.

Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.

There is a case to suggest that the social, economic or political background of an individual affects the way that you deal with, and acknowledge, the effects of extreme weather in both your neighbourhood and on a national level.

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.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydrologic cycle, from extreme weather forecasts to long - term projections on agriculture and water resources, is critical both to daily life and to the future of the planet.

This warm condition, known as El Niño, affects the local aquatic environment, but also spurs extreme weather patterns around the world, from flooding in California to droughts in Australia.

Significantly, there is growing unease about the link between climate change and extreme weather, with 74 per cent of Americans now agreeing that «global warming is affecting weather in the United States».

The important thing for DOD to look at, though, will be how increasingly common extreme weather events affect training and mission effectiveness on the ground.

Neither case allows planners to project extreme weather events or long - term trends that can affect everything from crops to building codes.

Under climate change, weather patterns in the Mediterranean buffer the Northern Adriatic from the ill affects of extreme tides.

Scientists are still looking into how climate change might affect other types of extreme weather, such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

However, we now know that climate change is already affecting regional circulation patterns and by extension helping to shape local extreme weather.

Through the end of June, the South has had the most extreme weather during this period since the Climate Extremes Index began in 1910, with 56.86 percent of the region affected by extreme weather.

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

For individual extreme weather events there are three possible ways climate change can affect the likelihood of the event:

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

Wasley advises that retailers initially stock a variety of products, testing to see what sells in their particular area and during what time of year, since weather extremes could influence sales — extreme hot or cold temperatures may affect the both the pet's and the owner's ability and willingness to go outdoors, she explains.

Distinguishing between different kinds of extreme weather events is important because the risks of different kinds of events are affected by climate change in different ways.

There has been an ongoing debate, both in and outside the scientific community, whether rapid climate change in the Arctic might affect circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes, and thereby possibly the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events.

Given than attitudes to climate change are often held as part of a political identity, we can not be surprised if people in a politically left leaning area (and much of the affected area is strongly Democrat) are prepared to ascribe extreme weather events to climate change.

It tries to draw attention to the point that weather extremes a) affect society more so than means, and b) require a different statistical approach to detect trends.

Much climate - related damage results from extreme weather events and could be affected by changes in the frequency and intensity of these events due to climate change.

There are experts, however, including in the Government of Nepal, who will tell you that the problem was a weather - related issue (extreme cold) that affected OPV maize as well as hybrid.

«Climate change will affect our agricultural productivity, our forests, fisheries, the types of pests and diseases we face, the frequency of extreme weather events, and even our capacity to generate hydroelectricity ---- and policymakers must make decisions in the face of all of these.»

The project primarily focuses on extreme weather and sea level events that affect the design principles of the power plants and might pose external threats to the plants.

And it may also be affecting the jet stream, making weather more extreme across the Northern Hemisphere.

People affected by an extreme weather event (e.g., the extremely hot summer in Europe in 2003, or the heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India in July 2005) often ask whether human influences on the climate are responsible for the event.

Researchers from the agency, as well as a number of universities, have been creating their own storms with the mission of knowing how the extreme weather condition affects forest and wildlife and, eventually, when and where future storms will occur.

They further question the claims that a pre-industrial or «below 350 ppm [carbon dioxide]» climate is necessarily more benign or less affected by extreme weather, and they warn that «unachievable» CO2 emissions reduction policies are at risk of being classified as «ill advised, ineffective, and disingenuous» if and / or when the public eventually recognizes how flimsy the evidence is upon which these policies are based.

However, it is still unclear how a decline in long - term variability could affect the frequency of extreme weather events, she adds.

On another page, entitled «Impacts of Climate Change», the Met Office states: «Higher temperatures, fresh water shortages, higher sea levels and extreme weather events will each affect regions differently.

The researchers noted how many extreme weather events had occurred in a respondent's region in the recent past, and examined whether such events affected opinions on relevant mitigation policies (such as whether they were more likely to support coastal building restrictions after a hurricane).

(VIDEO) Visualizing data makes it easier to understand exactly how an extreme weather event affected people's lives, livelihoods, and property and how those things could be affected in the future.

People are affected far more by local weather extremes than by any change in global average temperature.