Sentences with phrase «altering weather patterns»

But scientific consensus breaks down when it comes to the issue of whether Arctic warming is altering weather patterns in the northern midlatitudes, stacking the deck in favor of extreme weather events.

Mounting scientific data suggests that decades of human activity is altering weather patterns, warming and rising oceans, worsening droughts, melting glaciers and more.

Recognising that climate change is altering weather patterns, which in turn affect crop production in Bhutan, specifically paddy cultivation, the government will invest Nu 2.2 B into irrigation in the next five years.

That gasoline garden hose douses the sixteen cylinders, the four turbos sound like they're altering weather patterns in China, and for a brief moment it's entirely likely that I am driving a car faster than anyone else on planet earth.

This would warm surface temperatures across the globe, along the way altering weather patterns.

So when the solar system is traveling through that part of the galaxy, about every 62 million years, more cosmic rays hit Earth, causing direct radiation, increased ultraviolet rays and perhaps altered weather patterns.

The unusually warm waters, which lingered for about a year and a half, have been linked to mass die - offs of birds, collapsed codfish populations in the Gulf of Alaska and altered weather patterns that brought drought to California.

As climate change alters weather patterns — hastening desertification in some places and sopping others — increases the strength of natural disasters — from cyclones to landslides — and raises sea levels world wide, it will make many areas and livelihoods untenable, say the authors.

It may not be a road map to the next 100 years, but the Pliocene is a rough guide to the high sea levels, vanishing ice and altered weather patterns that might arrive hundreds to thousands of years from now.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

For example, the study reports that it is effectively certain that a change in climate will alter weather patterns.

Over the next several decades, the Arctic as we know it will be lost as the detrimental consequences ripple around the world as a result of sea level rise altered weather patterns, and biodiversity loss;

A final ingredient to this highly altered weather pattern appears to be a cooling of the sea surface in the North Atlantic just south of Greenland.

But with challenges such as altered weather patterns, workforce turnover, and market transformations, the strategies that yielded results yesterday may not work as well tomorrow

The increase in trapped heat changes the climate and alters weather patterns, which may change the timing of seasonal natural events, and the frequency of extreme weather events.

Arctic warming alters weather patterns far from the region and also accelerates sea level rise globally with the melting of the massive Greenland ice sheet.

An ice - free Arctic could alter weather patterns around the globe.

Used incorrectly, it has the potential to alter weather patterns, depress global agricultural output, affect ocean ecology, and cause large environmental shifts.

It alters weather patterns in the United States and around the world.

And ditto water: «As demand increases due to our growing population, we also face restricted water supplies due to the impact of altered weather patterns.

Not exact matches

One might argue that the effects of human - generated pollution have altered the normal weather patterns, but that's another argument for another forum.

But it also says changed weather patterns — possibly due to climate change — are altering flowering times as well as causing droughts and floods.

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

«This species has the smallest, most restricted habitat of any Amazonian primate, and it has been predicted that the habitat may be drastically altered due to changes in weather patterns as a result of global warming.»

According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), pollen season can begin as early as February and last through October, although weather patterns and your location can alter the start and end dates.

She used one of the articles posted on Newsela «Arctic heat release may be altering paths of hurricanes, other storms» as student reading on weather patterns.

Where the trip goes is where the snow blows — Our partnership with dozens of accommodators along the Powder Highway route, allows complete flexibility of our travel plans and last minute capacity to alter the route with the changing weather patterns and storm tracks.

Clearing the main mission unlocks four more that alter the camp's layout, enemy patrol patterns, weather, and time of day, creating an entirely new set of challenges.

Cuts would constitute the nation's first restrictions on carbon dioxide, a gas that has no direct effect on human health — in fact, it is the bubbles in beer — but that many scientists have concluded is already altering ecosystems and weather patterns as it accumulates in the atmosphere.

However, there are other equally or more important climate forcings in terms of altering climate patterns such as droughts, floods and extreme weather.

Impact of Global Warming Sea level rising Altered precipitation pattern Change in soil moisture content Increase in some extreme weather More flood more.

Changes in climate may be altering the circular wind patterns that drive much of our weather, and the implications for food, water and energy systems are serious.

It IS thought that these warm periods at the PEAK of the oscillation will be TURBULENT with altering STRONG weather patterning.

The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the continent could be altering the jet stream [3]-- and thus weather patterns — over North America, Europe and Russia, increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events and driving winter storms south.

In a nutshell, climate change occurs when long - term weather patterns are altered — for example, through human activity.

The point is that our weather patterns, especially as they concern precipitation, are getting drastically altered.

Climate change also alters characteristics of the atmosphere that affect weather patterns and storms.

The activists say our influence on climate is evident in «altered rainfall patterns,» but in this they are at odds with their fellow - activists at the ill - fated Intergovernmental Panel, whose special report on extreme weather (2012) and whose fifth and most recent (2013) Assessment Report on the climate question find little or no evidence of a link between our industries and enterprises on the one hand and global rainfall patterns on the other.

They face even greater risks in the future as human induced climate change increasingly alters the weather and climate patterns that societies have come to depend on.

«Among climate - change activists, the realization is spreading that the combination of political inaction on greenhouse gases, plentiful new petroleum supplies and accelerating changes in weather patterns means there is no escaping more life - altering floods, droughts and fires.

During periods when El Niño is active, weather patterns across the entire Earth are substantially altered.

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

Accelerated melting also adds more freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.9

President Obama needs to be reminded that acts of Congress, the UN or the EPA can not alter storms or weather patterns.

This heats up the ocean and surrounding area, and this effect has the potential to change global weather patterns, vary the flow of winds and alter the position of the jet stream, Wagner explained.

Changing climatic variables relevant to the function and distribution of plants include increasing CO2 concentrations, increasing global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and changes in the pattern of «extreme» weather events such as cyclones, fires or storms.

Chop down a forest and ambient temperatures will change, slopes will erode and local weather patterns will alter.

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

But the role of climate change in causing the drought itself is unclear — the more immediate cause is an intermittent weather pattern called La Niña, and research is still under way on whether that cycle is being altered or intensified by global warming, as some researchers suspect.

Changes in global weather patterns (e.g. El Nino events or global warming) can alter breeding behavior, affect reproductive success, decrease immune functions and increase amphibian sensitivity to chemical contaminants.