Sentences with phrase «disrupted weather patterns»

The report also lays out in detail sources of uncertainty around some of the most critical questions for the intended audience: institutions and individuals in the U.S., from the local to national scale, charged with protecting coasts, cities, croplands, and other areas at risk from rising seas and disrupted weather patterns.

David's late father - in - law was the pioneering scientist Charles David Keeling, who began to record the concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere in the 1950s, and who shared with David science's predictions on the effects of persistent greenhouse gasses, including rises in mean temperature, disrupted weather patterns, wildfires, floods, strengthening tropical storms, ocean acidification, sea level rise, melting of glaciers and other effects.

«When temperatures rise to that level, we will have disrupted weather patterns and spreading deserts,» he said.

What caused the sudden temperature drop is unclear, but Solomon and Stearns speculate that El Niño - like conditions could have disrupted weather patterns in Antarctica.

Given the probability that ice loss leads to existential threats by disrupting the weather patterns we rely on for agriculture — I don't feel odds of 50/50 on being «right» are good enough in this case.

For three days, scientists had described how a buildup of long - lived gases emitted by burning fuels and forests would, if it continued, raise temperatures, raise seas and disrupt weather patterns important to agriculture, water supplies and wildlife.

The increasing global temperature, for instance, is linked to the 15 percent decline in the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean, which experts fear could disrupt weather patterns.

This warming was, of course, very unexpected at the time, and definitely later disrupted the weather pattern.

Not exact matches

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

In the Arctic, that melts sea ice, thaws permafrost and disrupts global weather patterns.

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

These heat zones, known as urban heat islands where they occur above a large town or city, disrupt natural weather patterns and lead to abnormal rain showers, cloud formation and more.

I would say that's weather not climate change but I already got the lecture on how global warming causes freezing in the prairies by disrupting wind patterns so more cold air gets drawn down from the arctic warming it more so ice melts more, or some such folderol.

; what leads you to believe that the physical and biological trends we've seen / measured are likely to reverse within a mere 20 years, especially if / as we enter a solar upswing; how have you accounted for warming - driven methane release; what credible peer reviewed literature on «the other side» are you describing; what supports your confidence that there is little to no probability that the AGW that you do accept will change weather patterns enough to disrupt crop planting / growing / harvesting / production severely (or do you classify famine as a natural phenomenon?)?

However, anthropogenic (human) sources of greenhouse gases contribute to the instability of the atmosphere causing weather patterns to be disrupted.

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.

Long before the highly anomalous weather patterns we saw in Russia disrupt even more of the world's food production, issues with petroleum, fertilizers, fossil water depletion, soil exhaustion, and increased population will bring large pressures on the price of food.

LONDON, 9 April, 2016 − California is being sheltered from stormy weather by what climate scientists have dubbed a Ridiculously Resilient Ridge — a band of high pressure that disrupts wind patterns.

If humans have disrupted our planet's weather patterns it's definitely too late to worry now.

Though for half of the recent mass animal death events listed on the map weird weather is to blame, even if different specific weather events: Bucking the global trend of continued are marked warming, the UK just had the coldest December in a century; Australia experienced severe flooding after experiencing recent severe drought and heat; parts of North America have also had the usual weather patterns disrupted.

In association with El Niño, the heat redistribution in the ocean creates a major reorganization of atmospheric convection, severely disrupting global weather patterns from Australia to India and from South Africa to Brazil.

Generally, however, travel insurance plans only provide coverage for trip cancellation, interruption and delays for bad weather patterns at the time that they disrupt travel plans.