Sentences with phrase «caused extreme heat events»

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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.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

The committee found that scientists can now confidently attribute some heat waves and cold events, and to a lesser degree droughts and extreme rainfall, to human - caused climate change.

Blistering heat waves recorded around the globe in 2013 were linked to human - caused global warming, according to a broad survey of studies on extreme weather events published yesterday.

Some of the risks of heat - related sickness and death have diminished in recent decades, possibly due to better forecasting, heat - health early warning systems, and / or increased access to air conditioning for the U.S. population.182, 183 However, extreme heat events remain a cause of preventable death nationwide.

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.

Because these events were rare before human GHG emissions forced more energy (heat) into the atmosphere, it is reasonable to conclude that AGW is responsible for (is the cause of) the most extreme events.

A couple of years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established a «Climate Scene Investigation» strike team tasked with quickly assessing the causes of extreme events — mega downpours, off - the - chart heat waves and the like.

A tornado is an extreme event, but one whose causes, sensitivity to change and impacts have nothing to do with those related to an ice storm, or a heat wave or cold air outbreak or a drought.

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.

Heat waves, extreme precipitation events and flooding or extreme droughts, are also what actually cause climate damage — for instance lower agricultural productivity (as during the extremely hot 2003 summer in Western Europe) or biodiversity decline at ecosystem levels ranging from aquatic desert systems to entire rainforest biomes.

The most extreme heat events can buckle train lines, cause rolling blackouts and cost billions in lost productivity.

Some of the risks of heat - related sickness and death have diminished in recent decades, possibly due to better forecasting, heat - health early warning systems, and / or increased access to air conditioning for the U.S. population.182, 183 However, extreme heat events remain a cause of preventable death nationwide.

[2] A 2018 study found a near - zero probability for an Arctic heat event as extreme as 2016's occurring in the absence of human - caused climate change.

Evidence suggests that Arctic warming is causing weather patterns to become more persistent, which can lead to extremes such as droughts, cold spells, heat waves, and some flooding events.

While most scientists believe extreme weather events will be more frequent as heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions cause global temperatures to rise, Baddour said it was impossible to say with certainty what the second half of 2007 will bring.

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

With temperature records being smashed month after month, year after year, it's likely that human - caused global warming is making extreme heat events more frequent.

Details are provided on why these observations are needed to understand the causes of climate change, analyse the potential impacts, evaluate the adaptation options and enable characterization of extreme events such as floods, droughts and heat waves.

However, this approach is fraught with «correlation without a cause» error; it's unclear how or if the heat caused this mortality, or whether some indirect correlation, eg if EMS services burdened by an extreme event being less available was a cause.

Those data that show that the more people died due to extreme heat than other cause, narrowly beating out flash floods, and that more people die from heat than cold - related events.

A new statistical analysis argues that climate change was the cause of this and other extreme summer heat events.

When it comes to heat waves and coastal flooding, the scientific evidence is clear: Human - caused climate change is increasing these extreme weather events.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

Though the report still says, rightly, that any specific weather event can not be solely tied to climate change — be it the totally unseasonable snowfall that hit the Northeast this past weekend, the devastating flooding in Thailand, etc. — but that scientists now are 99 % certain that climate change will cause more extreme heat waves, fewer extreme spells of cold weather, and more intense downpours.

Rising air temperatures bring heat waves, spread disease, shift plant and animal habitat and cause extreme weather events, from drought to blizzards.

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