Sentences with phrase «changes in some climate extremes over»

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The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

The bill focuses heavily on the likely impacts of climate change in Mexico and points to concerns over the increase in extreme weather events.

These two effects, the authors wrote, «appear to counteract each other, contributing no appreciable long - term change in the risk for dry climate extremes over California since the late 19th century.»

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.

Prior to joining ECI, she completed her Ph.D. at Oregon State University, where she worked on the weather@home project over western US region, looking at drivers of extreme drought events in the US, future regional climate change projections over the western US, as well as investigating uncertainties due to internal variability and physical parameter perturbations.

«The ability to understand and explain extreme events in the context of climate change has developed very rapidly over the past decade.

It puts him at an extreme on the spectrum of debate over climate change in both tone and substance.

Projected changes in climate extremes under different emissions scenarios generally do not strongly diverge in the coming two to three decades, but these signals are relatively small compared to natural climate variability over this time frame.

Once the ice reaches the equator, the equilibrium climate is significantly colder than what would initiate melting at the equator, but if CO2 from geologic emissions build up (they would, but very slowly — geochemical processes provide a negative feedback by changing atmospheric CO2 in response to climate changes, but this is generally very slow, and thus can not prevent faster changes from faster external forcings) enough, it can initiate melting — what happens then is a runaway in the opposite direction (until the ice is completely gone — the extreme warmth and CO2 amount at that point, combined with left - over glacial debris available for chemical weathering, will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, possibly allowing some ice to return).

Considering extreme events over the current millennium so far — including several mentioned above — I arrive at the unscientific but not unreasonable rough estimate that climate change so far has cost on the order of 100,000 premature deaths and in excess of $ 100 billion US.

The rise of CO2 from 270ppm to now over 400ppm, the extent of equatorial and sub tropical deforestation, the soot deposits on the polar ice caps, the increase in atmospheric water vapour due to a corresponding increase in ocean temps and changes in ocean currents, the extreme ice albedo currently happening in the arctic etc, etc are all conspiring in tandem to alter the climate as we know it.

For climate change deniers getting very excited that it's cold outside at the end of December, here's the ratio of hot extremes to cold extremes in the U.S. over the past 365 days.

Examples of less certain science include understanding the effects of climate change on extreme weather in different regions, the role the deep ocean plays in the climate cycle and the rate at which sea level will rise over the next century.

Whilst EURO4M provides time series showing the changes in climate over time, the project also enables to report in near - real - time during emerging extreme events.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

A second study of heatwaves over recent decades in India has established a link between extremes of heat, climate change and mass death.

I knew the game was over when they started taking warming out and plugging in climate change (hot or cold, wet or dry), and finally the grasping - at - straws - extreme weather where everything that happened was because of CAGW (the warming not being mentioned).

The report, written by 220 experts from 62 countries, finds that climate change has already contributed to changes in extreme events — such as heat waves, high temperatures, and heavy precipitation — in many regions over the past 50 years.

The objects would have exploded over North America or slammed into it, or both, shattering and melting ice sheets, sparking extreme wildfires, and fueling hurricane - force winds — all of which could have contributed to changes in climate that led to the cooling of the Younger Dryas period.

The researches thus «urge extreme caution in attributing short - term trends (i.e. over many decades and longer) in US tropical cyclone losses to anthropogenic climate change,» stating that «anthropogenic climate change signals are unlikely to emerge in US tropical cyclone losses on timescales of less than a century under the projections examined here.»

In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human - made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor'easter s, and a $ 20 billion plan to reduce future flooding.

A second story (p 11) on prospective food shortages in Asia over the next 25 years says that «solutions» will be needed «as climate change brings more extreme flooding, storm tides, and probably drought in the great rice - growing deltas of South and Southeast Asia.»

In addition, climate change is very likely to lead to more frequent extreme heat events and daily precipitation extremes over most areas of North America, more frequent low snow years, and shifts towards earlier snowmelt runoff over much of the western US and Canada (high confidence).

The decisions must be made with: (1) a recognition of ambiguity and, (2) an acknowledgement that unless policies are, essentially, to be dictated by either extreme climate change or a lack of climate change over an extended period of time (so as to make any concerns about significant climate change invalid)-- affirmative policies must be made in a context where oppositional points of view are accommodated.

Statistics is also at the very heart of climate science, in large part because of the discipline's focus on the statistical properties of weather, including extremes, and how they change over time.

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equitin detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Echange for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Echange for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of EChange in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equitin 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of EquitIn Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of EChange Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equitin the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Echange, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations 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«Based on the results from this emergence timescale analysis we urge extreme caution in attributing short - term trends (i.e. over many decades and longer) in normalized US tropical cyclone losses to anthropogenic climate change,» says Crompton.

«We find that US population exposure to extreme heat increases fourfold to sixfold over observed levels in the late 20th century, and that changes in population are as important as changes in climate in driving this outcome,» they report.

The new report unveiled over the weekend by the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims extreme weather is set to increase dramatically in the decades ahead.

In Alaska, the number of acres burned each season varies dramatically but accumulating evidence indicates that climate change is increasing the extent of fire and contributing to extreme events such as the 2015 Alaska fire season, when over 5.1 million acres burned, or the 2016 conflagration in Ft McMurray, AlbertIn Alaska, the number of acres burned each season varies dramatically but accumulating evidence indicates that climate change is increasing the extent of fire and contributing to extreme events such as the 2015 Alaska fire season, when over 5.1 million acres burned, or the 2016 conflagration in Ft McMurray, Albertin Ft McMurray, Alberta.

Climate change already is being felt in the form of warmer winters in New York over the last several decades and increasing numbers of extreme rainfall events, according to DeGaetano, the Cornell researcher, who is the director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.

In saying that IPCC reports issued over the past 20 years had «created an ever - broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming,» the Committee linked those reports to potential violent conflict and wars that could result should extreme climate change occur.

The main outcomes of the ACCLIM project included; (i) return periods of extreme weather events based on observations at twelve weather stations, (ii) climate scenarios and probabilistic estimates of changes in climate over Finland based on an analysis of global and regional climate model simulations, (iii) guidance in the use of climate information in climate change impacts and adaptation research.

A landmark new study in Nature Climate Change finds the melting of the sea ice over the last 30 years at a rate of 8 % per decade is directly linked to extreme summer weather in the US and elsewhere in the form of droughts and heatwaves.

Over a longer time frame, those choices can fuel climate change, which in turn affects water quantity — through drought and other extreme weather events — and quality, by raising the temperature of lakes, streams, and rivers.

... After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long term there is no climate change signal... of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.

Given the extreme wildfires the Western U.S. has suffered over the past several years as a result of extended droughts and higher temperatures, results of changes in our global climate system, it is easy to crack a smile when reviewing these credos.

In short, climate change has reduced the intensity / frequency of cold extremes averaged over time.

We find that US population exposure to extreme heat increases four - to sixfold over observed levels in the late twentieth century, and that changes in population are as important as changes in climate in driving this outcome.

Schneider's words have since been fought over, selectively redacted and sometimes misrepresented by climate change advocates and opponents alike — alarmists and sceptics, in their extreme forms.

New research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that extreme heatwaves have have increased 50 times over the past 30 years and that climate change is to blame.

Many impacts of climate change will be realised as the result of a change in the frequency of occurrence of extreme weather events such as windstorms, tornados, hail, heatwaves, gales, heavy precipitation or extreme temperatures over a few hours to several days.