Sentences with phrase «after extreme events»

Many climate scientists (including ourselves) routinely answer media calls after extreme events with the phrase that a particular event can not be directly attributed to global warming.

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I find that so many people go to extremes after events like holidays and commit themselves to restrictive diets or resolve to follow some type of extreme diet plan.

Being climate resilient means farms are empowered to better withstand and adapt to a changing climate — and be able to bounce back after extreme weather events.

John Williams, Tom Finn and Martin Goodman felt compelled to express their extreme concern just two months after Venky's takeover, and events since — culminating in relegation to the Championship in May — have only gone to prove that if there's an inverse of a panacea, then Venky's are it.

Governor Cuomo announced nearly $ 2.2 million will be awarded to 34 farms across the state through the Climate Resilient Farming Grant Program, to help farms reduce their operational impact on the environment and better prepare for and recover after extreme weather events.

On climate change: In response to extreme weather events, Mr. Cuomo said he will launch Resilient NY, a program meant to enhance how communities recover after climate change - related events.

So far, these studies have been done retroactively, a year or more after specific extreme events.

«Testing these contrasting hypotheses was an opportunity to not only help people understand and plan for diversity changes after extreme weather events, but also to provide important data that would move the field of ecology forward.»

Normally, studies trying to attribute climate change to extreme events are published much later after the event, noted Karoly.

A report has looked at which sections of the population are left most exposed to food shortages after extreme weather events.

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

Based on over a decade of asthma hospitalization data (115,923 cases from 2000 - 2012), researchers observed higher risk of asthma hospitalization after extreme heat or extreme precipitation events.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

«For instance, maintaining and promoting connectivity among habitats and protecting pristine or remnant populations of habitat - forming species — such as coral and kelp — can dramatically foster recovery after extreme climatic events,» said Giulio De Leo, with Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, who also worked on the study.

CDC, 2012: Heat - related deaths after an extreme heat event — four states, 2012, and United States, 1999 — 2009.

The study shows that three - quarters of extreme La Niña events in the future will happen in quick succession after an extreme El Niño event.

What follows is a series of increasingly insane events that take suspension of disbelief to impossible extremes and leave you stupefied wondering when this stopped becoming a film that aimed for a prescient vision of where our reliance on technology was headed and became a corny after school special from the»80s warning us of a future that's never going to happen.

After telling the real - life heroic stories of people undergoing extreme and harrowing events in Lone Survivor and earlier this fall in Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg and star - producer Mark Wahlberg have collaborated again for the inside story behind the heroes who cracked the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing case in Patriots Day.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

Even if your home is uninhabitable after an extreme weather event, you still have a mortgage.

This time around it's developed by Digital Extremes (developer of Pariah and more recently Dark Sector) and takes place two years after the events of the Starbreeze developed original game.

Taking place after the events of the first Devil May Cry, this sequel strives for a more cinematic look and feel to combat, changing things up in how the camera behaves, but also taking extreme care to make the animations more natural and fluid.

Likewise for the early period of the 21st century after an extreme El Nino that was followed by an ENSO negative phase dominated by La Nina events.

So, within a period of a month or so, we learn, first, that the much debated global warming «pause» is real after all (regardless of what the cause might be, which remains uncertain), and second, that widely held assumptions regarding extreme weather events caused by AGW, such as droughts and flooding, are unfounded.

Only after the study of the 1997 extreme haze event in Southeast Asia, the scientific community recognized the environmental and economic threats posed by subsurface fires.

Our Tietsche, et al., 2011 paper basically shows that both extent and volume can recover on similar time scales after extreme loss events, in particular for the thin ice that we have around nowadays.

The recent «Time» article (13 April 2006), after giving a list of recent extreme events (Cyclone Larry, forest fires in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, etc) presented as being caused by climate change, then states «the serious debate has quietly ended».

After reading one of my recent pieces examining Pakistani flooding and Russian heat in the context of climate change, Steven Sherwood, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, offered a variant on this idea, noting that — for heat particularly — the severity of extreme events will change along with the odds:

«Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015.

For example, after an extreme weather event, scientists often carry out single attribution studies to determine how the likelihood of such an event could have been influenced by climate change and short - term climate variability.

The phrase, oft - repeated after extreme weather events «no single weather event can be attributed to climate change» applies to Haiyan as it does to any extreme weather.

After their testimony, Chairman Smith summarized that «The fact is there is little evidence that climate change causes extreme weather events.»

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).

CDC, 2012: Heat - related deaths after an extreme heat event — four states, 2012, and United States, 1999 — 2009.

As the IPCC special report on extreme events put it «There is low confidence in any observed long - term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity (i.e., intensity, frequency, duration), after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities.»

Soon after Christy's testimony, Roger Pielke Jr. and Steve McIntyre weighed in by attacking the largely correct testimony from Christopher Field, while turning blind eye to Christy's grossly misleading testimony that contained myths regarding extreme weather events.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

This policy document illustrates how well - designed climate risk insurance — when applied in conjunction with other disaster risk management measures and strategies — can protect people against climate shocks by acting as a safety net and buffer shortly after an extreme weather event.

For the world's poorest people in particular, the extreme weather event is just the beginning, with impacts felt for weeks, months and, in some cases, years after.

After nearly a year of terrible climate change journalism across the board, they didn't even mention the connection between extreme events and climate change, or the fact that this summer is a very real glimpse into our future.

After every extreme weather event the question: «Was it caused by climate change?»

With temperature records being smashed month after month, year after year, it's likely that human - caused global warming is making extreme heat events more frequent.

At these times we have extreme ENSO events — ENSO dragon - kings in 1976/77 and 1998/2001 — after which climate settles into a new trajectory.

In a recent post, after reviewing the extreme Arctic warming event of late 2015, Professor John Baez quotes an earlier interview with Dr Gregory Benford, who is arguing for a geoengineering effort to restore the frozen Arctic.

As global temperatures (black line) decrease slowly after 2050, the frequency of extreme El Niño events (purple line) continues to rise.

During the days immediately after an extreme weather event with large impacts, the question arises what role climate change has played in it.

As international climate talks resume in Bonn today, two months after climate scientists warned of climate - change - related risks from extreme events, leaders of the G7 are meeting in Brussels to discuss topics including the Ukraine, climate and energy.

The 2004 film «The Day After Tomorrow» imagined a world in which the complete collapse of a climate - regulating Atlantic Ocean current triggered catastrophic sea - level rise and extreme weather events in the U.S.

Comparing summer population counts of these reindeer both before and after the January 2012 event, the researchers found that the extreme weather caused one of the highest incidents of deer deaths on record.

Using satellite and field work after an extreme melt event in Greenland, a UCLA - led study finds that melt - prone areas on its ice sheet develop a remarkably efficient drainage system of stunning blue streams and rivers that carry meltwater into moulins (sinkholes) and ultimately the ocean.