Sentences with phrase «come from extreme heat»

In Australia, the extreme events are bushfires, which come from extreme heat and wind at the same time, and are probably more linked to temperature than cyclones.

Not exact matches

With extreme weather comes power outages, either from winds and rain damaging power utilities, or from the power grid being strained while many people try to make their homes comfortable during extreme heat and cold temperatures.

When it comes to extreme weather Japan's population have more on their minds than a repeat of last summer's record - breaking temperatures, when some 170 died from heat stroke.

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.

The threat comes not just from the extremes of heat of the kind that in 2015 killed an estimated 3,500 in India and Pakistan.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

While Hansen correctly noted in a NYT op - ed that droughts are expected to become more frequent in parts of the USA in the coming decades, aside from a brief discussion of the link between extreme heat and drought, Hansen et al. (2012) does not address droughts or attribute them to global warming.