Sentences with phrase «changing weather patterns»

In the Torres Strait Islands, the threats to culture from climate change are already being felt; for example graveyard sites have already been threatened and damaged by recent king tides, and the nesting behaviour of turtles has already become unpredictable because of changing weather patterns and erosion.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AMERICAN AIRLINES, Bethany Beach, DE Mar 2012 — Present Pilot • Successfully thwart a potential terrorist attack from one of the passengers while onboard, by recognizing the signs and alerting the authorities before landing time • Maneuver the aircraft away from harm by avoiding the path of a hurricane which descended without warning • Manage pre-flight checks of instruments and engines to ensure compliance with set aviation rules • Ascertain that all safety systems are up and running and that any glitches are taken care of • Determine best route to reach destinations based on weather reports and other concrete information from air traffic controllers • Oversee fueling duties to ensure that they are properly being carried out • Prepare aircraft for take - off and communicate status of flight to crewmembers and passengers • Monitor in - flight data and make adjustments to deal with changing weather patterns • Handle flight emergencies by ensuring passenger safety first and ensure that no panic is created onboard • Create flight plans detailing altitude, routes and amount of fuel needed • Communicate with ground staff to obtain clearance for landing • Ascertain that noise regulation is handled properly during take - off and landing
Changing weather patterns are the prime reason for buildings needing sophisticated HVAC services as more and more organizations are opting for complex heating and air conditioning systems.
Rapidly changing weather patterns, freezing rain and fog are just a few of the obstacles you might face during your travels (all of which could occur inside a 2 - 3 hour trip!)
As we watch the companies try to address changing weather patterns and increased storm activity we will see changing products on property insurance.
Water damage is an increasing risk due to changing weather patterns and aging infrastructures.
Owing to the important and costly ramifications of changing weather patterns — particularly extreme weather — on society, research should continue rapidly to elucidate the sources of uncertainty in these linkages.
The researchers claimed that changing weather patterns would commit up to 37 percent of the world's species to extinction by 2050 — far more than would go extinct if we continued at the current rate of habitat destruction.
BONN: Regional environmental officers from countries home to the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountain range, including Pakistan, called on Tuesday for cooperation between the nations to help mountain communities adapt to changing weather patterns caused by global warming.
Yet models seem to suggest many areas of the earth will become much drier, thanks to changing weather patterns (althought they often disagree on which areas will warm the most, which ones will get the wettest, etc).
It's an unusual step, and one that could have major implications on how we view changing weather patterns in a world that scientists agree is heating up.
In anticipation of changing weather patterns and potential shortages of water, we have made water efficiency a key strategic ambition shaping our product range.
Food supplies are also vulnerable to plant disease, pests, falling soil fertility, desertification, urbanisation, changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and rising levels of salination as soils are overirrigated.
If they heard about the changing weather patterns affecting agriculture in India and actually cared about the livelihood of farmers there (who rely on steady rains) then would they move faster?
It is going to get even more severe with every ton of CO2 emitted into the earth's atmosphere and none of the least developed countries have the adequate and additional financial resources, and technology to adapt to the changing weather patterns nor have their cries been taken seriously.
I have a question regarding some of the more surprising outcomes of changing weather patterns.
Changing weather patterns make winter smog around China's capital more likely, scientists warn, despite efforts to tackle air pollution at source
And the scary thing is not so much that the new normal is bad, it's that with more warming, rising sea levels, and changing weather patterns, the new normal will continue to get worse.
Changing weather patterns are expected to lead to declining food security in some regions, even with a 2ºC warming.
The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.
The report, commisioned by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, said the effects of sea level rise and changing weather patterns would be felt as early as the next decade.
Far too many news articles focus on changing / evolving weather patterns as justification for what we choose to call «Climate Change», and in that very narrowly defined arena we get countless counter-arguments of «simply changing weather patterns» and James Inhofe brings a snowball into the Senate chambers.
because I never came across a case where sky drivers vanished in the thin air and green house effect seems to be a reality with changing weather patterns and melting of ice at the poles.
Publicly, insurers have not accepted the theory of global warming, which says that the accumulation of greenhouse gases - in part because of activities like burning fossil fuels - is changing weather patterns.
The point I'm making is that, with LIMITED RESOURCES, to address the situation, we need to evaluate how many go into reducing Greenhouse Gases and how much goes into engineering and relocation projects to handle rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, and the many natural disasters that can result from each.
When the winds diminish, the warm pool of El Niño waters has an easier time spreading eastward and changing weather patterns, the researchers said.
Scientists are detecting a stronger link between the planet's warming and its changing weather patterns.
While the world is seeing real impacts (from ice retreats to changing weather patterns) from heating, which science links to CO2 (and other) emisssions.
Australia's food supply chain is highly exposed to disruption from increasing extreme weather events driven by climate change, with farmers already struggling to cope with more frequent and intense droughts and changing weather patterns.
The HAARP has subsequently become a target for those who have suggested that it could be used to test the ability «to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth», CHANGING WEATHER PATTERNS, blocking all global communications, disrupting human mental processes and mind control, causing earthquakes, and «x-raying» the earth.
Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record, the victim of changing weather patterns attributed to global warming and a government that is only just starting to wake up to the severity of the position.»
Jeff Knight said: «Our analysis shows that climate change likely did make a contribution to the record rainfall in 2013 - 14 through a long - term increase in UK winter rainfall that is not associated with changing weather patterns.
The BBC and The Guardian report Lonsdale's comments that Vanuatu has seen changing weather patterns, rising seas and heavier - than - usual rain, all of which are influenced by climate change.
Direct impacts through changing weather patterns (e.g., storms, floods, temperature extremes) 2.
This may sound farfetched to those of us who are following the climate change negotiations and have had access to news about weather patterns changing as is reported in the latest IPCC report (hyperlink) but it is these kind of explanations that our communities are using to explain the changing weather patterns and how their hope lies in a far - off stone falling back to its original position.
The report suggests that warmer, wetter winters brought on by changing weather patterns a.k.a. climate change have led to higher levels of pollen in the air lingering for longer periods of time.
Greenland's ice has been melting faster than many scientists expected just a decade ago, spurred by warming sea and land temperatures, changing weather patterns, and other factors.
Changing weather patterns create real, practical issues for the world.
And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...
Due to vulnerability caused by changing weather patterns and the serious degradation of the existing forests, communities living in this area will need to deal over the coming period with greater climate change.
Dawn: The University of Agriculture Peshawar has recently established the Climate Change Centre to conduct studies and research on climate change and cope with the challenges posed by changing weather patterns.
I agree with him on this although one probably has to keep an eye on both of course because if TCR is low but ECS is (very) high, lots of heat goes in the oceans which is relevant for sea level rise and probably for other things (changing weather patterns maybe?).
... if predictions of climate change prove true, more erratic weather will bring more frequent droughts, with changing weather patterns bringing more rain to some portions of the world while possibly turning others into deserts.
These environmentally friendly alternative income sources help local families who often run short of money after the annual coffee harvest or have seen decreasing crop yields due to changing weather patterns.
Then he says: «We see the level of sea rise, changing weather patterns,» «This year we have MORE [rain] than every year and for the last couple of weeks, the heavy rain falls throughout Vanuatu and it EXCEEDED what has happened in the past.»
Still, I couldn't help but be particularly intrigued by Green Guerillas, a local non-profit here in New York City that supports community gardens, when they sent out a press release saying that they believed «changing weather patterns» offered an opportunity to make vegetable beds bountiful through the holiday shopping season.
Sure, growing pineapples in Toronto might be fun, but what do you think will happen in Kansas when the summer heat gets cranked up to broil, and changing weather patterns dry up all the rain for a few months at a time?
Changing weather patterns leads to severe weather.
My hobby of late has become one of trying to determine how global warming could be changing the weather patterns.
However, I would be surprised to find that someone has claimed that GH warming will produce «colder temperatures... relative to the mean» (except for localized regions due to the changing weather patterns theory above).
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