Sentences with phrase «caused by heat waves»

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

In addition, more than 2,300 reindeer have died in the outbreak, believed to have been caused by a heat wave that melted permafrost, which in turn exposed the carcass of an anthrax - infected reindeer to the 12 - year - old boy.

Not exact matches

A full half of 3,863 coral reefs in the magnificent ecosystem were wiped out by catastrophic bleaching events caused by searing heat waves in 2016 and 2017.

Climate scientists have long warned that rising emissions of greenhouse gases by humanity may cause weather extremes, and not just heat waves.

Australia and New Zealand both could see healthy outputs, although some growers in Australia may face some issue caused by the recent heat wave.

Although a Chicago Park District spokeswoman raised the possibility the city bans were related to the sewage spill, parks General Supt. David Doig said the swim bans likely were caused by a number of factors, most notably the recent heat wave.

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.

Knowing what capacity a community has to respond to disasters or other stresses can help with planning and budgeting for everything from wildfire response to heat waves and droughts — or even a housing crisis caused by flooding.

If global warming permanently crosses that threshold, it will likely cause small island states to be swallowed by the sea, coral to die and heat waves to become more common and severe.

The record - breaking heat wave has been caused by A settled high - pressure system, says the National Weather Service

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

Researchers have found that the species, which has lost 20 % of its population globally since 1987, faces a growing threat from increasing numbers of torrential rainstorms and sweltering heat waves caused by climate change, which could accelerate the species» decline.

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

MIT researchers have found that by 2100, climate change could cause deadly heat waves in parts of South Asia, reports Chris Arsenault for Reuters.

A heat wave causes temperatures to rise between Bette and Tina, who are trapped in an elevator by a power outage, and between Molly and Shane, whose attraction is discouraged by Phyllis; Jenny catches costars Nikki and Greg together.

Folks... I know I am entering the lion's den talking in this forum, but Hansen had no basis to say confidently that last summer's heat wave was caused by global warming.

You state: «Hansen had no basis to say confidently that last summer's heat wave was caused by global warming...» Well, Hansen didn't actually say that — he was much more specific about to what heat wave he was referring.

If this is the NYT article you are thinking of http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/earth/extreme-heat-is-covering-more-of-the-earth-a-study-says.html then Hoerling apparently has not read the paper he in commenting on since «Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.»

A devastating heat wave in Russia that killed tens of thousands — yet was very likely NOT caused by climate change, according to the scientists who methodically investigate that event.

Our own study on the Texas heat wave and drought, submitted this week to the Journal of Climate, likewise shows that that event was not caused by human - induced climate change.

The natural process of atmospheric blocking, and the climate impacts induced by such blocking, are the principal cause for this heat wave.

I wrote about the incredible swath of destruction and five deaths (four campers and a motorist) caused by a smaller derecho in the Adirondacks in 1995 — one of four such storm systems triggered along the northern edge of a heat wave that July — so this one really elicited a sense of awe.

We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human - induced climate change.»

For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

The paper, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says events like last year's heat wave in Texas and the 2003 heat wave in Europe were almost certainly caused by systematic climate change.

Hansen, writing in the New York Times today, «say with high confidence» that recent heat waves in Texas and Russia «were not natural events» but actually «caused by human - induced climate change»?

The study said that the world risks «cataclysmic changes» caused by extreme heat waves, rising seas and depleted food stocks as it heads toward global warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century.

All heat waves are caused by stationary high pressure systems.

Recognition has grown in the scientific community that droughts, heat - waves and other catastrophic weather and climate events are not random in occurrence, nor are they caused only by variations in remote ocean temperatures altering large - scale atmospheric circulation.

It goes like this: The Russian heat wave 2010 was caused by a blocking pattern (albeit an extraordinary black swan type one (but we don't care, as these are future climate model predictions (and now is today, not tomorrow)-RRB--RRB-.

All five research groups came to the conclusion that last year's heat waves could not have been as severe without the long - term climatic warming caused by human emissions.

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.

As heat waves move across the U.S. from the northeast to the southwest and in much of western Europe, climate alarmists are responding predictably by blaming hot temperatures not on true meteorological causes but on the nebulous bogeyman of «climate change.»

This is caused not only by increasing drought and direct (summer) heat stress, but also by increasing weather extremes (heat waves, storms, floods) and climate - induced plagues.

Dr. Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.

«E.g., my sunburn / the storm that flooded my back yard last year / last weeks heat wave / the common cold are all caused by global warming».

For this is a problem that if not controlled may cause the death of tens or hundreds of thousands of helpless victims caused by intense storms and heat waves, the death or sickness of millions that may suffer dengue fever or malaria, the destruction of some nations» ability to grow food or provide drinking water, the devastation of forests and personal property, and the acceleration of elimination of countless species of plants and animals that are already stressed by other human activities.

explanation by process rather than explanation by cause ie El Nino's, Stadium waves, sequestered deep heat which is suddenly found in data everyone has looked at and said it did not exist in before [Chen and Tung's argument].

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Scientists are surer that the Earth has experienced more heat waves caused by global warming.

In 2007, the Nobel - Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that global warming is primarily caused by human activity and, if left unchecked, will threaten communities with worsening heat waves, drought, sea - level rise and extreme weather by the end of the century.

It is one of cause and effect — more carbon expelled from power plants results in more heat waves, super storms like Hurricane Sandy, and respiratory diseases like asthma caused by toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.

Victoria experienced supply failures in February 2000 when a heat wave swept across south eastern Australia, causing extremely high peak demand at a time when an industrial dispute had reduced available capacity by 20 % and two generating plants were unexpectedly out of service.

It is found that this warming is associated with increasing wave activity from the troposphere into the stratosphere, suggesting that the warming is caused by enhanced wave - driven dynamical heating.

Research data show that climate change caused by human behavior is fueling more frequent and intense weather, such as extreme precipitation and heat waves — so it's only natural to wonder if this applies to tornadoes, too.

Eli, you got cause and effect bassackward on the Russian heat wave and fires: the «carbon contamination» was clearly caused by the fires — not the other way around.

Heat waves are just as damaging to humans as to moose, as seen by the 100 + deaths caused by the recent California heat wHeat waves are just as damaging to humans as to moose, as seen by the 100 + deaths caused by the recent California heat wheat wave.

For example, it is said that the Moscow heat wave was caused by an extreme atmospheric «blocking» situation, or the Texas heat wave was caused by La Niña ocean temperature patterns,» the researchers write.