Sentences with phrase «by heatwave»

The breakdowns, lapses, failures and general confusion caused by the heatwave were everywhere, though ironically most notable in the rambling meditation on Utopia organized by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Sorry you guys are still getting nailed by the heatwave....

Time seems almost to be standing still, put on pause by the heatwave happening in the city right now.

By 2100, arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs.

Arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs.

Acting on extreme temperature forecasts could reduce the risks posed to around five billion people by heatwaves and coldwaves, new research has found.

Australia's 2013 «angry» summer was characterised by heatwaves and major bushfires.

Not exact matches

Heatwaves and drought mean that California's avocado production is expected to fall by 44 %, while disastrous flooding in Peru's avocado - growing south has also led to a downgrade in this year's crop forecast, according to the BBC.

Wider areas, including the Netherlands, Germany, northern Italy and central Europe, were also hit by a severe heatwave in June that affected crop production.

I'm a Seattle Native, living in LA and feeling nostalgic for my drizzly Northwest on this cool, cloudy weekend... that will, of course, be followed by an unseasonably nasty heatwave.

No thanks to us: the heatwave was made 35 per cent more likely by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

In India, more than 2000 people died in a heatwave caused by a delayed monsoon — an effect of El Niño.

Weeks of freezing temperatures, storms or heatwaves can be caused by «stuck» weather patterns.

This year, too, has been one of extraordinary weather, from summer deluges in the UK to a storm knocking out power to millions in the US during a record - smashing heatwave — and of course, the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy.

The quantity and types of coral and fish species were surveyed before, during and after the 2016 mass bleaching event caused by a global heatwave.

, says that the Russian heatwave led to a hoarding of food supplies and price - fixing by speculators, which compounded food shortages and led to global wheat prices rising dramatically.

The report, commissioned by the charity Oxfam, tracks the effects on four countries: Russia which experienced a heatwave in 2010; flood - hit Pakistan the same year; East Africa during the drought of 2010 - 2011; and the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

A leaked draft of a second report by the panel, due in March 2014, suggests climate change will cause heatwaves, droughts, disrupt crop growth, aggravate poverty and expose hundreds of millions of people to coastal floods as seas rise.

It is part of a trend that saw Sydney's temperature climb to over 47 °C earlier this month — the highest recorded in the city for 79 years — and could see both it and Melbourne experiencing mega ‑ heatwaves with highs of 50 °C by 2040.

The Stern Review, published for the UK government in 2006, argued that super-hurricanes, mega heatwaves and the like will cause trillions of dollars in damage annually by 2100.

A study published by the Climate Council of Australia in 2014 found that heatwaves in Australia are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent.

A report from the World Bank, also published this week, paints a stark picture of a 4 °C warmer world riven by severe heatwaves, floods and droughts.

The ice that was once rock - solid is now rotten and see - through in places, weakened by a winter of freak heatwaves.

Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 °C to 5 °C warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the century — all because of the way plants on the ground respond to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

In recent years, Europe and North America have been hit by severe heatwaves, the effects of which are often most extreme in cities.

The increases in frequency and duration metrics translate to 30 additional marine heatwave days per year by the end of the 35 - year period (p < 0.01; based on a linear trend) from a baseline level of about 25 days in the 1980s (Fig. 2).

For example, the 2003 European heatwave caused tens of thousands of deaths33 and was later superseded in intensity by the 2010 European heatwave, events which can be expected to increase in probability over the 2010 — 2050 period34.

This contribution is an outcome from the working group «Marine Heatwaves — physical drivers and properties» hosted at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Oceans Institute and led by T.W., D.A.S., N.J.H. and E.C.J.O (www.marineheatwaves.org).

In fact, marine heatwaves experienced in Australia have already caused massive dieback of these important marine primary producers, threatening the socioeconomic benefits provided by coastal ecosystems.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

During this winter in the southern hemisphere, centuries - old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by prolonged stretches of temperature far above normal.

Army Green and Black Valentino Rockstud Heels Asilo Purity Jumpsuit (similar style) Prada Oversized Baroque Sunglasses NARS Lipstick in Heatwave For some reason this white jumpsuit by French Connection has me singing Everybody's working for the weekend (or midweek considering it's Wednesday).

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

Instructions For A Heatwave is the sixth novel by British author, Maggie O'Farrell.

Instructions for a Heatwave By Maggie O'Farrell A friend and fellow writer mentioned over dinner one night that she had received an early copy of this novel and loved it.

Three cats abandoned inside a crate near a dumpster outside of a cat rescue during a heatwave were rescued by luck!

The city is marked by endless sunshine, sea breezes, and balmy evenings — but it's also the season when hotel rates spike, extreme heatwaves occur, and many small - business owners take weeks off.

Taking place at The Store, 180 The Strand and produced in collaboration with Jeremy Deller, this special event will feature a live performance by Cecilia Bengolea with DJs The Heatwave and special guests.

Of course Mass may feel that a linear regression of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation).

However, as is widely acknowledged and also stressed by Dole et al., a main reason for the heatwave was a long lasting «blocking» situation, (and they attribute that «automatically» to natural variability).

And a new study by Duchez et al. (2016) connects the «cold blob» in the summer of 2015 to the heatwave across Europe that year, because the cold subpolar Atlantic favors a certain air pressure distribution.

Further, I take RiHo08's point to have been that the evidence showed the 2010 Russion heatwave was not atypical, and that therefore the heatwave was not, by itself, evidence of Global Warming.

Perched high above the Arctic Circle, on Svalbard, normally a place gripped by shrieking winds and blizzards, it was caught in a heatwave a few days ago.

The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

Recent record hot summers and significant heatwaves were also made much more likely by humans» effect on the climate.

Sea levels will rise over the century by around half a metre; snow will disappear from all but the highest mountains; deserts will spread; oceans become acidic, leading to the destruction of coral reefs and atolls; and deadly heatwaves will become more prevalent.

We can also characterise heatwaves by looking at their their intensity, frequency and duration.

A new report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the heatwave and bushfires that have affected Australia this week have been exacerbated by global warming.