Sentences with phrase «by extreme weather events in»

Pakistan Today: Despite severe flooding in 2011, Pakistan managed to drop itself from first last year, to third position this year in the league table for countries that were worst hit by extreme weather events in 2011, according to a «climate risk index 2013» published here on Tuesday.

Oklahoma has been battered by extreme weather events in recent years and much of the discussion focused on adaptation toward maximizing benefits and minimizing losses for the state.

Not exact matches

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

East Syracuse - based Pyramid Network Services, the general contractor for the Mesonet Initiative, a $ 23.6 million UAlbany project supported by Cuomo to enable better planning for extreme weather events, is one of the nearly two - dozen companies mentioned in the federal subpoena issued to the Cuomo administration in late April.

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.

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.

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.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

The role played by biodiversity in the ability of ecosystems to continue functioning during extreme weather events, which are increasingly frequent as a result of climate change, remains poorly understood.

However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for economic stability.

In Canada, an extreme rainfall event, made worse by a stalled weather system likely powered by an unstable Arctic and climate change, has closed down the country's oil trading capital.

Organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GOTHAM Summer School (18th - 22nd September 2017) will train young scientists on a unique combination of interdisciplinary scientific topics and tools relevant for understanding teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events.

It is usually triggered by extreme events in a person who is susceptible to it... such as undue stress, cold weather or a virus.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

They reorder as their supply is used, which can significantly shift the supply - demand dynamic in favor of salt producers during extreme winter weather events — CMP's average price on awarded highway deicing contracts rose by 25 % in 2014 as a result.

Distinguishing between different kinds of extreme weather events is important because the risks of different kinds of events are affected by climate change in different ways.

A new study by Screen and Simmonds demonstrates the statistical connection between high - amplitude planetary waves in the atmosphere and extreme weather events on the ground.

Masters pointed out that at this point 4 out of 5 households in the US have been influenced by extreme weather events recently though not necessarily to this life - altering extent.

Blocking highs are only one part of the story — many extreme events caused by prolonged weather patterns are not associated with blocking highs, but rather very wavy jet patterns and / or cut - off lows (like blocking highs but in the opposite flow direction).

It's a daunting task to try to detect any links between short - term fluctuations in extreme weather events and the rising influence of accumulating greenhouse gases on climate, given that extreme weather is, by definition, rare.

Climate change threatens human health and well - being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, diseases transmitted by insects, food and water, and threats to mental health.

As long as we're talking about extreme weather events and attribution... although Kerry Emanuel is usually the go - to guy for the study of increasing tropical cyclone intensity, his 2005 and 2011 (linked to above by Stefan) papers being the most cited, there is a limitation of scope in that only the North Atlantic basin is covered by these papers, AFAIK.

If an increase in extreme weather events due to global warming is hard to prove by statistics amongst all the noise, how much harder is it to demonstrate an increase in damage cost due to global warming?

It appears that skewness, and several formulas seem applicable, provides a testable procedure to compare extreme weather events over time, for example, some recent work on summertime temperatures by Volodin and Yurova in 2013: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-012-1447-4.

Much climate - related damage results from extreme weather events and could be affected by changes in the frequency and intensity of these events due to climate change.

In recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particulaIn recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particulain extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particulain particular.

People affected by an extreme weather event (e.g., the extremely hot summer in Europe in 2003, or the heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India in July 2005) often ask whether human influences on the climate are responsible for the event.

In a poll released last November by the Public Religion Research Institute, fewer than half of them were willing to link extreme weather events to climate change, whereas more than three - quarters thought these events were signs of the «end times» predicted in the BiblIn a poll released last November by the Public Religion Research Institute, fewer than half of them were willing to link extreme weather events to climate change, whereas more than three - quarters thought these events were signs of the «end times» predicted in the Biblin the Bible.

As the Georgetown Climate Center put it: «There is a significant upward trend in the insured losses caused by extreme weather events.

In the next few decades, longer growing seasons and rising carbon dioxide levels will increase yields of some crops, though those benefits will be progressively offset by extreme weather events.

Climate change threatens human health and well - being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, threats to mental health, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and disease - carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks.

Climate change threatens human health and well - being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and diseases carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks.

According to Climate Communication, «All weather events are now influenced by climate change because all weather now develops in a different environment than before... climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.»

Another analysis by the National Centers for Environmental Information found 2017 marked the first time there were five separate billion - dollar extreme weather events during the first three months of a year, including a crop - killing freeze in the Southeast.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

MSNBC was generally graded down by UCS because of a few mild overstatements linking some specific extreme weather events and climate change; in other words for going the other way than the other networks.

The losses would be caused by the direct destruction of assets by increasingly extreme weather events and also by a reduction in earnings for those affected by high temperatures, drought and other climate change impacts.

The document also provides short synopses of the status of the climate in different regions, and describes the impacts of continuing and increasing global warming on the regions, including increased incidences of extreme weather events, as well as the loss of lives and livelihoods caused by these events.

These results suggest that as the Arctic continues to warm faster than elsewhere in response to rising greenhouse - gas concentrations, the frequency of extreme weather events caused by persistent jet - stream patterns will increase.

The relationship between resilience in the face of extreme weather events and increases in female education expenditure holds when socioeconomic development continues but the climate does not change, and socioeconomic development continues with weather paths driven by «wet» and «dry» Global Climate Models.

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.&raquIn a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.&raquin the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.&raquin order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

Soon after Christy's testimony, Roger Pielke Jr. and Steve McIntyre weighed in by attacking the largely correct testimony from Christopher Field, while turning blind eye to Christy's grossly misleading testimony that contained myths regarding extreme weather events.

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

This policy document illustrates how well - designed climate risk insurance — when applied in conjunction with other disaster risk management measures and strategies — can protect people against climate shocks by acting as a safety net and buffer shortly after an extreme weather event.

Give us back our doom, plead hippies By Andrew Orlowski Allegations of a «surge» in «extreme» weather events has been quashed by a surprising source — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCBy Andrew Orlowski Allegations of a «surge» in «extreme» weather events has been quashed by a surprising source — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCby a surprising source — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Look At the Trends in Extreme Weather and See the State of the World BY EDITOR OF THE FABIUS MAXIMUS WEBSITE ON 5 APRIL 2017 • Summary: Climate activists make bold claims about extreme weather caused by our CO2 emissions, attributing most big weather events to CO2's influencBY EDITOR OF THE FABIUS MAXIMUS WEBSITE ON 5 APRIL 2017 • Summary: Climate activists make bold claims about extreme weather caused by our CO2 emissions, attributing most big weather events to CO2's influencby our CO2 emissions, attributing most big weather events to CO2's influence.

In fact, by most metrics, extreme weather events are becoming less extreme and less frequent as CO2 rises.

By understanding this complex relationship, we may be able to better simulate and detect changes in the prevalence of extreme weather events in the midlatitudes, particularly across the northeastern United States.