Sentences with phrase «climate driving event»

1998 was hot because of a strong, natural, climate driving event.

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

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«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

These weather events turned extreme thanks to human - driven climate change.

Moreover, as climate change drives extreme weather events in producer countries, food price increases could become another ticking bomb in the region.

Three different groups that studied the California drought, however, did not come up with a clear picture of how long - term climate change might have driven that event.

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

Young says that elements of the recent drought are consistent with what is expected from an event that is driven by climate change.

Ultimately, we'd like to be able to reproduce the global signatures of these abrupt climate events with numerical models of the climate system, and investigate the physics that drive such events.»

In some ecosystems, big, severe wildfires are natural events and more climate - driven — by drought or high winds — so fuel reduction is not a very effective tool in these locations.

In this earth system model, human belief systems and corresponding climate governance will drive anthropogenic GHG emissions that force the climate system, while the magnitude of climate change and related extreme events will influence human perception of associated risk.

These migration events were driven by climate change connected to variations in Earth's orbit.

Driven by climate change and enhanced by a powerful El Niño, the ongoing mass bleaching event hasn't just impacted the Great Barrier Reef, but every major reef region in the world.

The unusual geology and climate of the East African Rift System introduced selective environmental pulses, which not only drove speciation but also subsequent dispersal events.

«The coupling of these two models is predicated on the assertion that climate change drives changes in extreme events, extreme events interact with human perception of risk to influence emissions behaviors and emissions behaviors then feed back into climate change, leading to a fully interacting model.»

The vast majority of those studies have shown that climate change is driving extreme heat events around the globe.

The biggest climate - driven extreme weather event since Katrina — Boulder's Carolyn Baker reports on fracking leaks, climate, economic hit.

The tonal shifts drive you absolutely crazy and the sequence of events create an almost absurd take on climate change and the refugee crisis.

Yet, there is so much even fiction writers can share via a blog (how they create characters, do their research, write; facts about their novel's location, food, climate, famous sites and people; and tidbits on their struggles with plot development, daily life, and outlook on world events) and blogging is THE most effective way to drive traffic to a website.

According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of extreme heat waves) the connections between today's extreme weather events and human - driven climate change range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or coastal vulnerability.

The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists» efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse - driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.

Some attribution assessments that link events to dynamically driven changes in circulation have been criticized on the grounds that small signal - to - noise ratios, modeling deficiencies, and uncertainties in the effects of climate forcings on circulation render conclusions unreliable and prone to downplaying the role of anthropogenic change.

It is an invaluable exploration of the complexities in gauging any influence of greenhouse - driven climate change in such events.

In a talk at the event, he conveyed his view of the incomplete, but compelling, picture of greenhouse - driven climate change with this photo illustration (right).

But this tactic can backfire if a story downplays the uncertainties surrounding unusual climate events or if it portrays everything unusual in the world today as driven by human - caused warming.

Setting aside the word propaganda, I will readily assert that there has been a longstanding and well - financed effort to raise public concern by downplaying substantial, persistent and legitimate uncertainty about the worst - case outcomes from greenhouse - driven warming and over-attributing the link between such warming and climate - related disasters and other events.

But since the climate is dependent on chaos - driven events, such as: sunspots, solar flares, vulcanism, and the actions of humanity, it can also (I believe) be considered a chaotic system.

This way, catastrophic floods and devastating droughts which occur at the same time and in the same place can be said to be human - caused, and each single event can necessarily be claimed to have been driven by anthropogenic climate change.

The theme of the event was Driving Ambitious Corporate Action, and the first day of the event (5 May) was open to all, followed by two days of closed workshops for WWF Climate Savers partner companies.

Much of what is of concern to the military is extreme weather events (e.g. Pakistan floods) driven by natural climate variability and random weather roulette (concerns about sea level rise and the opening of the Arctic Ocean are linked more closely to AGW)

He looks at the odds for a given extreme weather event to occur given human - driven climate change.

Using a variety of techniques, they are attempting to quantify the role human - driven climate change plays in particular events.

Veldkamp, T.I.E., S. Eisner, Y. Wada, J.C.J.H. Aerts, and P.J. Ward, 2015: Sensitivity of water scarcity events to ENSO driven climate variability at the global scale.

Therefore, our analysis supports the paradigm that while the Younger Dryas was a period of global climate change, it was not a major global cooling event but rather a manifestation of the bipolar seesaw driven by a reduction in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation strength.

Furthermore, human - caused warming is superimposed on a naturally variable climate system, driven by various dynamic processes and events that influence the temperatures we experience.

California has recently seen an uptick in extreme heat events and warmer baseline temperatures, driven by climate change.

The relationship between resilience in the face of extreme weather events and increases in female education expenditure holds when socioeconomic development continues but the climate does not change, and socioeconomic development continues with weather paths driven by «wet» and «dry» Global Climate climate does not change, and socioeconomic development continues with weather paths driven by «wet» and «dry» Global Climate Climate Models.

The potential for climate change to drive changes in the severity and likelihood of extreme weather events could have implications for the accuracy of natural catastrophe models.

Evidence suggests that the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation was driven in part by warm air (air warmed by the dramatic seasonal loss of Arctic sea ice) 9 as well as by changes in snow cover over Eurasia driven by climate change.10 This event is part of an emerging trend in which a warming climate may paradoxically bring colder, snowier winters to northern Europe and the eastern United States.11

... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that on top of a whatever local weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate change is putting its finger on the scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger weather event than you would have otherwise seen.»

The kind of (model supported) scenario construction that is deserving a lot of attention nowadays is the generation of synthetic weather events using a climate model, but cast in a future setting by adjusting the boundary conditions driving the climate system (greenhouse gas, aerosol, land use,...).

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

The complete set of cycles appears to be solar driven however there are different solar mechanisms involved which explains the differences in the cycle times and the differences in the amount of climate change for the different solar events.

It's a climate shift step function caused by natural cycles «the temperature increase in the second half of the 20th century could have taken place in steps driven by major ENSO events» (Jens Raunsø Jensen)

Gradual, insolation - driven millennial - scale temperature trends in the study area were punctuated by several abrupt climate changes, including a major transient event recorded in all five lakes between 4.3 and 3.2 ka, which overlaps in timing with abrupt climate changes previously documented around the North Atlantic region and farther afield at w4.2 ka.

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.

Professor Steffen said the window of opportunity for Australia to tackle climate change was rapidly closing, as climate change driven extreme weather events continued across the nation.

Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneClimate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneclimate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11

Professor Will Steffen from the Climate Council Of Australia said the «abnormal April» records highlights the impact climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever Climate Council Of Australia said the «abnormal April» records highlights the impact climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever before.