Sentences with phrase «centuries of summer heat»

Buildings offer a relief: a sense of centuries of summer heat simply dissipating into thick walls.

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The pamphlets warn that consequences of climate change in the UK would include summer heat related deaths, sea level rises and food shortages by the end of the century.

By the end of the century, if we continue on our current path, we could see heat waves like the one in Chicago in 1995 occurring three times every summer.

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

Most of the studies on the Arctic climate and ice trends cited to support the proposed listing assumed that the buildup of heat - trapping gases was probably contributing to the loss of sea ice, or that the continued buildup of these gases, left unchecked, could create ice - free Arctic summers later this century, and possibly in as little as three decades.

In one method, a statistical analysis of observational records was performed (using the KNMI Climate Explorer) to compare this summer's heat with summers during the early part of the century, before global warming played a significant role in our climate.

I.e. solar activity was high in most of the 20th centiry and then peaked in about 1985, together with a 20 - 30 year heat lag (since it remained high until 1996 as well), and oceans take a few decades to equilbrate, (the same as summer takes about 6 weeks to reach maximum temperature after the summer solstice, and every day it takes a few hours after noon to reach maximum temperature), so the earth has taken a few decades to reach maximum temperature after the long high in solar activity during the 20th century, and will now go down in temperature over the next few decades, with now both a negative PDO, and reduced solar activity.

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

Thousands of people across Europe died from heat - related causes in the sweltering summer of 2003 — the hottest in at least 500 years.2 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at current rates, 26 a summer like the one in 2003 could be considered ordinary by the end of the century.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

Major 20th century droughts, including the 1930s and 1950s, have occurred during periods of elevated temperatures, with persistence of high pressure leading to surface heating and drying in both winter and summer (11, 14, 15)(Fig. 1) and storm tracks displaced around the drought region (16).

If heat - trapping gases aren't controlled, nearly nine out of 10 Americans will have noticeably worse weather — not better — by the end of the century, especially in the summer, the study found.