Sentences with phrase «area with extreme heat»

This is not a huge deal to me, since I do not live in an area with extreme heat or humidity.

Not exact matches

«Our results indicate that areas of eastern Texas, Florida, the south - east and mid-Atlantic are areas where rapid population growth, acting in concert with a warming climate, will lead to a significant increase in exposure to heat extremes,» says Jones.

In 2010, for example, one - fifth of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.

«In urban areas, we'll look at how cool roofs can ameliorate both extreme heat demand and irrigation demands associated with future warming.

Using atmospheric data from the last 35 years, study author Daniel Horton, a Stanford University postdoc, and his colleagues found that persistent areas of high pressure in certain places were linked with extreme heat waves in Europe, western Asia and eastern North America.

Furthermore, extremes of heat and cold decrease battery lifespan — using a medium which determines the location of all devices is a sensible way of controlling the stored environment, particular with the ability to move trolleys around as winter approaches to the best temperature - regulated areas of the building.

When my male Bullmastiff was being campaigned in the late 90's, my handlers (from the Houston area) would not go on the road with the dogs in the extreme heat of the summers down here, unless the show was very close to home, for just this reason.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategheat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategheat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategHeat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

The researchers found that production losses due to droughts were associated with a reduction in both harvested area and yields, whereas extreme heat mainly decreased yields.

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..

In addition to offering areas for recreation and benefits to mental and physical health, urban green spaces «filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events,» according to the agency, whose recent assessment on urban ecosystems concluded that «with the right policies and tools, urbanization does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond.»

The map (top) shows population density along with the location of four major heat wave «clusters» — large geographic areas that tended to experience extreme heat at the same time during the past century.