Sentences with phrase «causing extreme weather»

But the lack of statistically significant results and, more important, the absence of evidence pointing to a smoking gun — a physical mechanism in the climate system that ties Arctic changes to extreme events — has left many top climate researchers unconvinced that rapid Arctic warming is a major player in causing extreme weather events outside of the Arctic itself.

Last year was one of unusual climatic activity, with El Niño causing extreme weather around the world.

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.

«Britain is sleepwalking towards disaster because of a failure to recognise that climate change is causing the extreme weather that has blighted the country for more than a month, Ed Miliband has warned.»

But three years later, just before oversight of Dutch Boy is scheduled to be handed from U.S. control to an international committee, the system shows signs of malfunctioning, as in causing extreme weather, not stopping it.

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.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

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

Scientists have long suspected that global warming can cause extreme weather events.

Bring on the cool weather — climate change is predicted to cause extreme weather, more intense storms, more frequent floods and droughts, but could it also cause us to be...

These cause extreme weather simply because they lead to unusually prolonged conditions of one type or another.

After their testimony, Chairman Smith summarized that «The fact is there is little evidence that climate change causes extreme weather events.»

I know the arguments that AGW causes extreme weather events (and the counter-arguments that this is wrong or alternatively essentially unprovable), but for popular consumption it's a very dangerous argument, because people are smart enough to figure out that a theory that can account for everything is unfalsifiable and unscientific, even if they've never heard of Karl Popper.

Global warming that has not occurred can not have caused the extreme weather of the past few years.»

Throughout history, people have believed that human actions can change the climate and cause extreme weather.

The zealots finally abandoned any connection, however tenuous, with Scientific Method quite several years ago when the MSM started saturating the public space with «CAGW causes every extreme weather event» and this egregiousness went entirely publicly unchallenged by our activist heroes

Bring on the cool weather — climate change is predicted to cause extreme weather, more intense storms, more frequent floods and droughts, but could it also cause us to be more violent with one another?

So in a nutshell... climate change causes extreme weather which destroys farming, and reduced clearing is how we «prevent» climate change.

«Global warming is expected to cause extreme weather events, which may, in turn, result in large day - to - day fluctuations in temperature,» said Hedvig Andersson, a cardiology researcher at the University of Michigan.

Instead when North Dakota floods because a river froze over and explosives are needed to break up the ice, we hear about how global warming causes extreme weather events.

Are you saying that there's an alternate model whereby temperature is bypassed as the central variable, and anthropogenic factors cause extreme weather effects directly without manifesting themselves as temperature rise first?

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

Not exact matches

The most frequent cause of delays were late - arriving aircraft (7.4 %) followed by aviation - system delays (6.9 %), maintenance or crew problems (5.2 %), extreme weather (0.4 %) and for security - related reasons (0.02 %)

These financial impacts will mostly be felt in the poorest parts of Africa, Asia, and South America — causing loss of crops, droughts and other extreme weather, and increasing sea level rise.

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

THIS MONTH has seen extreme weather conditions hit Western Australia, causing devastation the like of which I hope I never witness again.

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

In the face of all the extreme weather we've been getting, and all the supporting science for man - caused climate change, she claims climate change is a hoax.

Thames Water workers help distribute bottled water, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pipes.

From vineyard to winemaking, it is our goal to shepherd the grapes and wine through the winemaking process, all the while protecting them from extreme conditions caused by weather or harsh processing methods.

Coconut water not only prevents dehydration caused by disease, but also by hot weather or extreme physical labor.

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

The ability of the transport network to withstand or recover from disruptions, such as those caused by extreme weather in recent years, is also key.

The big post 9/11 fear was that Indian Point would be targeted by terrorists, but the new post-Sandy fear is that extreme weather could also cause problems.

«Current long term predictions indicate that these extreme weather variations will continue and situations such as the current flood events, and disruption caused, underline how adequate maintenance and funding of the network must be a fundamental part of UK transport policy.

«These communities have witnessed first - hand the damage caused by extreme weather and we must ensure we build back stronger to adjust to this new normal,» Governor Cuomo said.

«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.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — In extreme frigid weather like that arriving in Erie County today courtesy of a «Polar Vortex», residents may seek alternative methods to keep their homes warm and their houses supplied with power during outages caused by the storm.

«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.

Ruling out natural variability, scientists say several of 2016's extreme weather events wouldn't have happened without human - caused climate change.

Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more extreme weather events.

It's not flooding or other weather disasters that cause people to move but rather extreme high temperatures, at least in Pakistan

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.

NEW ORLEANS — For the first time, scientists have definitively linked human - caused climate change to extreme weather events.

The UN climate talks in Warsaw have ended with an agreement to protect vulnerable populations against the «loss and damage» caused by extreme weather

This bias, say the authors, has a tendency to diminish the political dedication for preventative measures against extreme weather, regardless of whether they are caused or intensified by humanmade influences.

Travelling at up to 23 - 30 knots, fast ships are especially vulnerable to waves that amplify suddenly due to local weather and sea conditions — extreme funnelling effects, for example, may turn waves a few metres high into dangerous waves tens of metres tall that can destabilise ships, resulting in damage, causing injuries and threatening lives.

When these airy tendrils make landfall, they can cause severe floods and other extreme weather events.

During periods of extreme dry weather caused by El Niño and a phenomenon called the positive Indian Ocean Dipole, smoke emissions are considerably higher — either because farmers are taking advantage of the dry weather to burn more land or because once burning, the fires are more difficult to control.