Sentences with phrase «bring more heat waves»

Higher emissions will lead to higher temperatures that will bring more heat waves, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels.

As reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would cause the global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.

Not exact matches

We may all have suspected that heat waves don't bring out our best selves, but having scientific confirmation of the fact should nudge you to be more aware of the effect.

Even though repeat heat waves brought sizzling hot days, overnight temperatures broke far more records: According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), in July there were 6,106 record high minimum temperatures, and «only» 2,722 record high daytime temperatures.

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

This extra warming brings more frequent, longer and more intense heat waves.

The temperature increases bring crop - withering heat waves, more - destructive storms, more - intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting.

That is the clear message from a new report that finds climate change is likely to bring more record - breaking temperatures, heat waves, and heavy downpours.

Our warming world is, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, increasing heat waves and intense precipitation in some places, and is likely to bring more extreme weather in the future.

It will bring more intense and frequent heat waves to our city which already suffers from oppressive and humid summers, and where, as in many cities, heat is disproportionately dangerous for the poorest communities.

The IPCC scientists predict that because of global warming the future will bring more and deadlier extreme weather of all kinds: more hurricanes, tornadoes, downpours, heat waves, droughts and blizzards.

«Global warming is important because it is so persistent and global in scale, and because it brings more extreme events such as heat waves — not because it makes every place warm all the time.