Sentences with phrase «bad extreme heat»

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A carbon policy would help protect Americans from the worst effects of climate change, such as extreme heat waves and droughts.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

While the number of extreme - heat days projected for that region was even worse than for South Asia, Eltahir says the impact in the latter area could be vastly more severe.

However, periods of extreme heat and drought can trap pollution in the region, making bad ozone days worse.

Peanut butter prices are spiking after the southern US saw one of the worst harvests in decades, thanks to out - of - the - ordinary extreme heat over the summer.

Also, monitor weather conditions - extreme temperatures (heat or cold) are difficult for all pets but especially bad for puppies and older animals (see our article on heatstroke).

What this shows first of all is that extreme heat waves, like the ones mentioned, are not just «black swans» — i.e. extremely rare events that happened by «bad luck».

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

I've written an essay for Wednesday's Op - Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need to limit human vulnerability to the worst the climate system can throw at us and to curb emissions that are steadily raising the odds of unwelcome outcomes, particularly extreme heat and either too much, or too little, water.

In fact, it was something very like extreme heat and drought in 1858 (it was, er, worse than they thought) which brought sewage matters to a head in London's Great Stink.

A recent study, for example, showed that climate change increased the risk of heat - related mortality in Paris, one of the worst affected cities in the 2003 extreme heat, by about 70 %.

Future extreme heat is worse and coming sooner than you might think.

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..

Of course, bad weather has always been with us, but climate change greatly increases our risk of extreme weather like heavy storms, droughts, and heat waves.

The decadal scenarios are not time series, but rather frequencies of extreme events (including clusters) and worst case scenarios over the target time interval: floods, droughts, heat waves, tropical cyclones, heavy snowfalls, etc..

Many extreme weather events have documented relationships with natural climate variability; in the U.S., extreme weather events (e.g. droughts, heat waves and hurricanes) were significantly worse in the 1930's and 1950's.

2012 Controversial «attribution» studies find recent disastrous heat waves, droughts, extremes of precipitation, and floods were made worse by global warming.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

Just as extreme heat can be an issue for pets, extreme cold can be just as bad.

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