Sentences with phrase «as weather patterns change»

«Some of their nations could disappear entirely, and as weather patterns change, we might deal with tens of millions of climate refugees in the Asia - Pacific region.»

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

New research suggests that as weather patterns changed some 30,000 years ago in Australia, megafauna went extinct

Because as the weather pattern changes, Dr Rubin says we can't ever determine when mosquitoes start and finish each year, leaving 12 - month prevention to be the only way to clean up this disease.

Not exact matches

The world - wide phenomenon of climate change, and the devastatingly dangerous weather patterns and storms it produces, must be our fault as well.

In an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.

Droegemeier does not expect Bridenstine to support slashing the agency's budget, especially given that much of NASA's mission can be framed in terms of collecting data that are as applicable to understanding weather patterns as to understanding climate change.

This lack of diversity threatens the potential of commercial chickpea stock as the conditions in which farmers attempt to grow it — hotter, with a changing palette of pests, diseases, and weather patterns — become less and less like the conditions in which it was originally domesticated.

«As climate changes, and even with many of our weather patterns, [it] directly affects the distribution of disease,» Ford says.

HAMPTON COURT PALACE, England — First it was birds and now it is bees that are finding their numbers under increasing pressure from sources as diverse as habitat loss, insecticide use and changing weather patterns.

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

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.

World weather patterns will also start to change, as a frigid Antarctic continent and the icy ocean currents that surround it play an important role in global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

Many natural phenomena, like changing weather patterns, are nonlinear in nature — as are human - made systems, like financial markets.

A NASA satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large weather events such as El Niño, with some troubling implications for future climate change.

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

New findings link rising ocean temperatures off the northern coast of Brazil to changing weather patterns: As the Atlantic warms, it draws moisture away from the forest, priming the region for bigger fires.

The disappearing act could affect far - away weather patterns, as changes at the sea surface affect air currents that steer powerful weather - makers such as the jet stream.

Scientists expect some annual variability as wind and weather patterns change, but predict the contraction will continue long - term.

«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.»

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

However, the effects of introducing these particles are not expected to be the same across the globe, and the offsetting of human - induced changes in other quantities such as rainfall and weather patterns may not work as well as for temperature.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

While the individual weather pattern may allow for heavy rain, the heaviest of this precipitation is increasing as the world warms from climate change.

During the fall, the heat that was added to the oceans gets released into the atmosphere as sea ice reforms, and this added heat is bound to change weather patterns somehow (this is a process known as «Arctic Amplification»).

As the planet warms, drought, wildfire and changing weather patterns threaten some 400 billion trees in the Amazon, some of which are already at risk from logging and mining.

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As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for action to be taken to reduce disaster risk and to help communities adapt to changing and more unpredictable weather patterns, without which much more displacement will occur in the future.

For instance, the environmental connections theme will have students study topics such as pollution, weather patterns and changes, and environmentally sustainable energy sources.

As a Colorado - based firm we experience a wide range of seasons and changing weather patterns.

Little change in the weather pattern is expected during the next couple of days as the surface ridge to the north remains weak.

As you venture throughout the world you will see areas that are distinctly different, and fast changing day / night cycles full of weather patterns like rain and snow and high winds.

One of the changes that will go mostly unseen by humans is the large - scale migrations that will take place as thousands of species are compelled to depart due to warming temperatures and unstable weather patterns.

For the exhibition Op losse schroeven (On loose screws) organised by Wim Beeren and Edy de Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Boezem hung white bed sheets out of the first floor windows of the museum to function as a wind vane, to indicate the changing patterns of the wind and weather, but also to mock the Dutch habit of placing the bedding in the open window of one's house to dry.

And that as a result of this process weather patterns will very probably change.»

We also anticipate the variability of weather patterns will change dramatically over some parts of the world, such as North America, Europe and Asia, but not in others.»

Thermal mass of the oceans on the other hand is huge, so they follow with some principal lag of decades, but they follow «noisy» as decadal variations like ENSO or changes in weather patterns due to climate change overlay that.

It doesn't make sense; if global warming means only higher oceans and «only» changed weather patterns, then only life as we know it is threatened, not life iself.

On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).

As climate change leads to dramatic changes in the day to day weather patterns, with hurricanes and floods frequently headlining the news around the world, it makes you wonder why people are still turning a blind eye to this ginormous issue.

The researchers want to know if the whales have enough to eat, especially as El Niño changes weather patterns and could decrease the number of salmon the whales will have to hunt.

Just as a band of Carteret Islanders are abandoning their homes due to the effects of climate change — becoming the world's first climate change refugees — word has come that rising sea levels and more severe weather patterns may claim an even greater victim: the entire cultural legacy of Australia's native Aborigines.

Whether climate change is expressed as a rise in temperatures, or as changing precipitation patterns — it is at the extreme edges of the graph that the frequency of weather events suddenly multiplies dramatically.

Further information about Arctic weather patterns and climate change will help scientists predict how the Arctic is impacting climate change globally, as well as how the Arctic contributes to uncertainty within climate models.

The 20 - year horizon is relevant to short - term impacts, such as changes in weather patterns; the 100 - year horizon applies to longer time - scale changes, such as sea - level rise; while 500 years represents the longest time - scale it is felt reasonable to consider given our current knowledge.

Climate change is defined as more - extreme weather patterns, winter and summer.

As we try harder and harder to ward off more and more warming, weather patterns around the world will begin to change.