Sentences with phrase «come from the extreme event»

The tsunami was at least three times the size of a 1946 tsunami that was the most destructive in Hawaii's recent history, according to the new study that examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred.

Not exact matches

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

By reducing the vulnerability of the developing world to these extreme events, we'll have gone a long way to helping them adapt to the more serious things that might come about from global warming.

When it comes to extreme weather events, last year's Oct. 3 - 5 blizzard that dumped anywhere from 20 to 55 inches of snow on western South Dakota was devastating.

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

The things I make — art, music, events, articles, killer smoothies — wouldn't get made if I wasn't consistently propelled forward by a blessed unrest and extreme nostalgia for the indivisible divine consciousness we all came from.

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.

What comes over loud and clear from numerous commentators is that there were far more extreme events of every kind in the pre 1538 period than occur today.

The first paper comes from a group of scientists who have worked to rapidly analyze a number of extreme weather events over the past few years, including flooding in Europe and Louisiana last year.

I felt she believed what she was saying but was left with the impression that she was pushing her own theory of arctic amplification and also the oceans absorbing the recent warming without any realisation that the statistics of extreme events appears to contradict much of where she is coming from.

The significance of attributing the role of climate change in an extreme event comes from situating that hazard in the context of long term climate change for a country or region, and thus creating a robust narrative for decision - makers and the public around the degree to which a disaster of this type will represent the «new normal».

A rising number of requests for extreme weather attribution information coming from governments, NGOs, and media in the wake of extreme weather events.

None of the best data sets from the past 200 years are exactly shouting «fire» when it comes to temp, sea level or extreme weather events.

So, the original theory of AGW would have produced warmer air coming from the polar regions which would have created a smaller temperature difference between systems, and thus would have created fewer extreme weather events, not more of them.

The researchers cautioned that this extreme event provides a glimpse into the region's future as greenhouse gases continue to increase, and the signal of a warming climate, even at this regional scale, begins to emerge more clearly from natural variability in coming decades.

Focusing on decimal degree C. changes in global temperature is the tantamount to focusing attention away from the coming climate changes that will cause floods, droughts, dust storms, high winds and other extreme weather events and the difficulty of predicting where, when, and which kinds of weather related problems people in the near future will be experiencing.

Over the decades since then, the scope of environmental issues has expanded to include energy conservation, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, farmland preservation, and the multiple benefits to land, water, and air that come from reducing sprawl and providing alternative transportation...