Sentences with phrase «affected by this heat wave»

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«There is a strong upward trend in 3 - day maximum temperatures over the area affected by this heat wave,» said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a climate scientist at KNMI.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

«Given that 50 % of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 % by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Not exact matches

To assess how future heat waves might affect air travel, researchers used climate models to estimate hour - by - hour temperatures throughout the year at 19 particularly busy airports in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, China, and South Asia for the period between 2060 and 2080.

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.

And because the region is important agriculturally, it's not just those directly affected by the heat who will suffer, Eltahir says: «With the disruption to the agricultural production, it doesn't need to be the heat wave itself that kills people.

The report concludes that a warmer climate could affect U.S. residents both directly (through droughts, heat waves, and increasingly intense hurricanes) and indirectly (through greater incidence of disease transmitted by mosquitoes and other carriers, decreased air quality, and rising pollen counts).

Between May 10th and 14th in 2012, the Canary Islands as a whole were affected by a mini heat - wave which saw temperatures reach the mid-high 30s throughout the islands.

Aaron Lewis writes, «People have died in heat waves affected by AGW.»

These reactions may be short - lived or, in some cases, long - lasting.117, 118,119 For example, research demonstrated high levels of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among people affected by Hurricane Katrina, 120,121 and similar observations have followed floods122, 123 and heat waves.124 Some evidence suggests wildfires have similar effects.125 All of these events are increasingly fueled by climate change (see Ch.

The Northeast is often affected by extreme events such as ice storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and major storms in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast, referred to as nor» easters.

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The heat wave was surely largely only a deadly event in the statistics in so far as it affected people already weakened severely by other factors, and even that only because of inadequate air conditioning, which might consume a lot of energy, but would do an awful lot more good than trying to lower Northern European summer temperatures through lower CO2.

In his address to the gathering, Pakistan Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan said that people in Pakistan living in around the HKH region are annually affected by a number of climate hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFS), avalanches, landslides and heat waves, which result in massive human and material losses.