Sentences with phrase «dangerous weather events»

Their lifespan is curtailed, not by months from PM2.5 carbon particles, but by decades due to unsanitary water, streets full of waste, lack of winter heat and summer air conditioning, inability to be warned and to flee dangerous weather events, lack of access to modern medical care, etc..

We pay for climate disruption every day in the form of hurricanes, droughts, floods, heat waves, and other dangerous weather events that pose significant health and economic risks.

Smith paints a picture of wet regions of the globe getting wetter, parched regions becoming drier, and increasingly erratic and dangerous weather events.

In Josh Robin's series, Sandy: Five Years Later, NY1 examines what has been done to better protect the five boroughs, as experts believe dangerous weather events will accelerate in this era of climate change and rising seas.

The Syfy channel's third law of straight - to - TV disaster movies states that an animal must be twinned with a dangerous weather event to create a half - decent pun in the title or you might as well not bother.

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What Welbergen witnessed could be a harbinger of an increasingly dangerous world in which rare weather events such as heatwaves, deluges, droughts and storms become much more common.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

In the event of dangerous weather or ocean conditions we may be required cancel tours for your safety.

Although they are one of the rarest weather events, blocking can trigger dangerous conditions, such as a 2003 European heat wave that caused 40,000 deaths.

What we witness here are both climates and weather features changing before our eyes in the form of what to us may seem a freak event — but what is actually part of a dangerous transition period away from the stable climates of the Holocene.

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

I know the arguments that AGW causes extreme weather events (and the counter-arguments that this is wrong or alternatively essentially unprovable), but for popular consumption it's a very dangerous argument, because people are smart enough to figure out that a theory that can account for everything is unfalsifiable and unscientific, even if they've never heard of Karl Popper.

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

The earth is near a tipping point where human emissions will certainly result in runaway catastrophic warming, mass extinctions and dangerous unprecedented weather events.

The number of severe weather events in Russia is growing by 6 % a year - and most dangerous are the floods.»

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

The rehearing petition shows how the panel decision, if allowed to stand, will let HFCs keep fueling dangerous climate change, increasing risks for the millions of Americans who are living through hurricanes and other extreme weather events, and experiencing many other climate impacts.

Real world observations tell us that the IPCC's speculative computer models do not work, ice is not melting at an enhanced rate, sea - level rise is not accelerating, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is not increasing, and dangerous global warming is not occurring.»

At more than 400 parts per million, we're already well beyond dangerous levels of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, as climbing temperatures, melting ice caps, and extreme weather events have made clear.

Nevertheless, the premise of dangerous anthropogenic climate change is the foundation for a far - reaching plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events.»

When all these purposeful events lead to a dangerous situation, such as a fatigued truck driver, a driver who is taking caffeine pills or other drugs, a driver who is speeding in inclement weather, or a driver who has not properly maintained a truck, wrecks happen.