Sentences with phrase «between weather disasters»

The two scientists claimed in Science to have found a relationship between weather disasters and refugees migrating to Europe.

Not exact matches

There is a booming trade in «weather futures,» allowing companies and banks to gamble on changes in the weather as if deadly disasters were a game on a Vegas craps table (between 2005 and 2006 the weather derivatives market jumped nearly fivefold, from $ 9.7 billion to $ 45.2 billion).

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, head of WWF's global climate and energy programme, and COP20 President, said: «In a year marked by extreme weather disasters and potentially the first increase in carbon emissions in four years, the paradox between what we are doing and need to be delivering is clear: countries must act with greater climate ambition, and soon, to put us on a path to a 1.5 °C future.

Geophysical disasters include volcanoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, rockfalls, landslides, and avalanches, those in which there may be no clear - cut causal relationship between the disaster and the weather.

For climate - related disasters, we can draw direct causal connections between the disaster and the weather.

Bob Ward, policy and communications Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotlight.

The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme weather events.

For instance, in 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special report studying links between climate change and extreme weather, titled «Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaption».

Susan was the lead author of a November 2016 article titled (Un) Natural Disasters, about communicating the linkages between extreme weather events and climate change in the World Meteorological Organisation's Bulletin.

The frequency of reported natural disasters has increased over the past 40 years.19 Three times as many extreme weather events occurred between 2000 and 2009 as occurred between 1980 and 1989.

According to data collected by the National Climate Data Center, there were 134 weather or climate disaster events with losses exceeding $ 1 billion each in the United States between 1980 and 2011, an average of more than four per year (Table 2.1).

When severe weather strikes, having insurance can make all the difference between recovery and disaster.

From snowstorms to hurricanes, travel insurance can cover you if adverse weather or a natural disaster causes a covered event, like flight cancellation, to come between you and your trip.

Fortified with added protection to windows, doors, and improved connections between the roof, walls, and foundation to guard against natural disasters and extreme weather.

Fortified windows, doors, and improved connections between the roof, walls, and foundation to guard against natural disasters and extreme weather

Massachusetts has a high risk for natural disasters, between the extreme winter weather and major hurricane threats.