Sentences with phrase «after extreme weather»

This guidance document underscores that: poor people are already at risk from climate - related shocks, including crop failures from reduced rainfall, food prices spikes after extreme weather events, and increased incidence of diseases following heat waves and floods.

From those images, Reichstein's team determined how much biomass an individual ecosystem accumulates during or after extreme weather.

ISP: Sri Lanka has paused for breath after the extreme weather conditions last year that many associate with climate change.

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

They've only been saying that in the last 5 years or so, only after extreme weather had begun to be hyped in the media.

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

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.

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.

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.

In hot climates and the tropics flood - related influenza is typical after extreme weather and natural after floods.

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

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

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.

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.

Thames Water workers help distribute bottled water, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pipes.

Not exact matches

After weeks where every part of the country seems to have been tossed about with one type of extreme weather or another, it dawned on me that I should focus on building experiences that I could control.

El Niño will be substantial, warn Australian scientists: Australian scientists on Tuesday forecast a «substantial» El Niño weather phenomenon for 2015, potentially spelling deadly and costly climate extremes, after officially declaring its onset in the tropical Pacific...

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.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

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

His comments came after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found last week that within two or three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2 degrees, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and extreme weather.

An accompanying News & Views article, by Dr Antonietta Capotondi from the University of Colorado, says the study has important implications as it shows that extreme weather caused by La Niña may follow straight after the devastating impacts of an extreme El Niño.

Formulated specifically to reverse the effects of extreme weather — both hot and cold — and provide intense pampering after cosmetic procedures, it rapidly hydrates, replenishes and nourishes skin back to a healthy, natural state like no cream you've experienced.

We walked through row after row of tiny, filthy and dilapidated, decades - old wire cages packed with hundreds of desperate dogs forced to wallow in their own feces through extreme weather conditions — many without food and water.

It would be cool to have more survival elements that make the west very brutal, such as weather extremes, bullet woulds actually wound, and also needing to rest after awhile.

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.

Yet after decades of studying and analyzing global weather extremes, Masters thinks the shift is obvious.

After studying trends of monsoon rains over 60 years, the researchers have warned of extreme weather conditions in future.

With record - breaking temperatures year after year and escalating extreme weather and climate impacts, the need for adaptation has long been apparent.

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).

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.

Yet despite these data, story after story continues to peddle the claim that the weather is getting more extreme, using whatever recent string of bad weather as the hook.

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.

Prior to the 1990's (pre-350ppm atmospheric levels) the world suffered year after year major and extreme weather - related disasters... (Ramez Naam denies this)

Al Gore follows extreme weather closely, and on Tuesday he'll hit the campaign trail in Miami days after Hurricane Matthew tore through Florida.

That warning comes weeks after the United Nations released its latest report concluding with «very high confidence» that growing extremes in weather are being influenced by human activity, thus creating new risks for energy systems.

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.

In the days after the storm, the editors at the environmental website Yale Environment 360 asked several climate experts to answer the question: Is extreme weather linked to global warming?

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.

As for lying, I have observed many scientists seem to have no difficulty with lying when they connect, without a shred of evidence, supportive modeling or any data or often even any theory such things as extreme weather is getting worse or is linked to CO2, wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier, that the ocean swallowed the «missing heat», using a proxy upside down doesn't matter, the models are still adequate for policy even after such a huge divergence from reality, coral die - back is due to manmade warming rather than fishing, all warming must be bad rather than beyond a certain threshold, etc, etc, etc..

The next day, I was (pleasantly) surprised to see an AAP journalist had written an article about my talk (and also included some of the science on extreme weather presented by the distinguished scientist Lesley Hughes who spoke after me).

China, after all, wants to reduce its reliance on coal, the impacts of which it is already seeing in its air and soil quality, not to mention in extreme weather events linked to climate change.

With the unrelenting weather extremes in the US swinging to firestorms in Texas, after the floods of Irene, the picture of a climate in chaos is a compelling one.

The world didn't buy their «solutions,» even after being inundated in hysterical propaganda attempting to link Tropical Storm Sandy and other «extreme weather» with man - made global warming.

(trouble is 35 is for carbon dioxide concentration, and 65 is for forcing, so if that's the calculation it was indeed a typo in a spreadsheet) Actually CO2 as a percentage of all radiative forcing would be: 43/65 * 100 = 66 % You messed up the link (I think) so that it actually leads back to this page rather than the FAQ section http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/whats-wrong-with-warm-weather.html Never mind, as you know, I don't think the costs imposed by that change are large, not as long as sea level rise is only 50 cm over a hundred years (and the midpoint for the scenarios I consider most policy relevant, ie those excluding lots of coal burning after 2050, is somewhat lower still) and the change in «weather extremes» largely amounts to nothing more than what would be expected from moving south a few hundred kilometres.

Horses are shackled between the shafts of their carriage, their vision restricted by blinders — often working in extreme weather conditions with inadequate access to water or rest, day after day.