Sentences with phrase «by extreme climate changes»

These fast - growing, adaptable creatures are perfectly equipped to exploit the gaps left by extreme climate changes and overfishing, according to a study colleagues and I published in the journal Current Biology.

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California Gov. Jerry Brown, whose state is currently being ravaged by wildfires, said, «Scrapping the Clean Power Plan ignores sound science and the extreme cost of climate change.»

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

No single weather event — even an extreme one — can be «caused» by climate change, as Vox's David Roberts has explained in detail.

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

Weather extremes caused by climate change may soon lead to food insecurity around the world, according to a paper from t...

Weathering the Storm: With California stuck in extreme drought and last year's barley crop damaged by heavy rain, climate change is posing serious problems for the brewing industry.

Plus, keep an eye out for programming that highlights how local families can prepare for extreme weather caused by climate change.

The panel is expected to discuss topics ranging from the impact of climate change on New Yorkers» health, the increase in extreme weather such as heightened flood risk, and recent efforts by the state to respond.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

The fact that large pockets of people across the world are still living in extreme poverty is being exacerbated by rises in global food and fuel prices, as well as climate change.

In 2010 extreme weather displaced millions in Malaysia, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines and the United Nations estimates that in 2008 20 million people were displaced by climate change, compared to 4.6 million by virtue of internal conflict or violence.

«Given that the leading cause of power outages is extreme weather — which is exacerbated by climate change — the Trump administration's head - in - the - sand approach would actually undermine grid resiliency and reliability while promoting climate change and its catastrophic impacts,» he said.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

The problem, says Matthews, is that historical data is not a very good guide to the future of freshwater resources — particularly now that extreme water conditions have been exacerbated by a rapidly changing climate.

«This new way of viewing the problem could be a game changer in the attribution of extreme events by providing a framework to quantify the portion of the damage that can be attributed to climate change — even for events that themselves can not be directly attributed to climate change using traditional methods,» continues Hammerling.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

This does not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be said to be simply «caused» by human - induced climate change — usually such events are complex, with many causes.

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species factors in climate change, but a species that stays stable as temperatures rise gradually might be hit much harder by an extreme event.

Climate change caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing more extreme rainfall and snowfall — and floods

Understanding the balance between climatic changes and weather - driven mortality requires data on both long - term climate trends and the toll taken by extreme weather.

But scientists agree that climate change will up the ante considerably by bringing more extreme weather gyrations — searing drought one year, followed by torrential storms that can wash away cracked soil and destroy crops rather than quench their thirst.

In many cases, the benefits of increased CO2 in the atmosphere will be offset by heat stress, drought and extreme weather tied to climate change.

But global CO2 emissions are still on track to meet or exceed the most extreme emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, and by the scenarios the panel will use in the report it will release next year, scientists with the Global Carbon Project said.

The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.

Steffen was not surprised by the finding that climate change led to an increase in the likelihood of such an extreme summer.

Those heat extremes, the hottest in the country's observational record, were likely caused by man - made climate change, according to a new study accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

If it turns out climate change is making extreme weather events more likely, it is important to help locals build resilience, for instance by building irrigation systems to cope with drought, says Grainne Moloney, a chief technical adviser with FAO Somalia, a division of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

«Medical experts argue that dealing with climate change will improve our public health by reducing the likelihood of extreme weather events, reducing air quality and allergen problems, and limiting the spread of pests that carry infectious diseases.»

It may soon be followed, however, by yet more flooding in coming years: climate change may increase the likelihood of extreme weather, such as excessive summer rains, that give rise to such natural disasters.

Jet engine exhaust emits carbon dioxide, which drives climate change by warming the atmosphere, leading to increasing global temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

Each nation has employed its own methodology for maintenance and repairs, but new, daunting challenges created by climate change — extreme heat, extreme cold, and severe flooding — require yet more rigorous solutions.

It speaks eloquently of stewardship of God's creation and care for the poor, those already affected by the exacerbating impacts of climate change on droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

With shorter cycles of extreme floods and damage, the European's current average losses of 4.9 billion euros a year could reach 23.5 billion euros by 2050, a rise of almost 380 percent, said the study in the journal Nature Climate Change.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

According to a poll conducted by researchers at Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, four out of five Americans reported personally experiencing one or more types of extreme weather or a natural disaster in 2011, while more than a third were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these events.

«Unfortunately the fact that Kimberley corals are not immune to bleaching suggests that corals living in naturally extreme temperature environments are just as threatened by climate change as corals elsewhere,» says Dr Schoepf.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report by the World Bank showed on Monday.

A review of Antarctic climate change forecasts that by 2100 the world's seas will have risen to levels previously thought too extreme to be realistic

Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate could boost the number of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.

The extreme events induced by climate change will have drastic consequences on forest functions and services and may bring about important drought - induced die - off events.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

On the one hand, we live in a changing world, and all extreme events are caused by both climate change and nature.

«Statements by President Obama and others that attempt to link extreme weather events to climate change are unfounded,» Smith said.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.