Sentences with phrase «driving weather extremes»

So while climate change isn't driving weather extremes, it may well be a factor making those extremes more catastrophic.

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

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the end of the Winter 2018 Fund Drive, the extreme weather hitting the region today, President Donald Trump's lawyers telling him not to meet with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the economy.

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

In developing countries, extreme weather could drive even more people away from farms and into overcrowded shantytowns.

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

Understanding the balance between climatic changes and weather - driven mortality requires data on both long - term climate trends and the toll taken by extreme weather.

Jet engine exhaust emits carbon dioxide, which drives climate change by warming the atmosphere, leading to increasing global temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

Abatzoglou said they found abnormal weather and climate conditions were a driving factor in 96 percent of the extreme fires identified.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

That narrowing gap is important to note because it seems to be driving extreme weather in the midlatitudes, from heat waves and droughts to heavy snowfalls.

OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.

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

Secondly, I have to make that walk in the extremes of New England weather, which means sometimes through snow, on ice or, like last Friday, through gale - force - winds and driving rain.

Above all, the XV Crosstrek is designed for more extreme use, whether it means all - weather driving or all - terrain adventure.

Its V - 8 is likely to be mated to a new 9 - speed automatic transmission with a 4MATIC all - wheel drive system — judging by the extreme weather testing conditions.

The rear seat height and legroom are outstanding and Subaru is better in extreme weather conditions or off - road with its advanced X-Drive all - wheel drive feature.

Another reason to upgrade would be if you regularly drive in extreme weather or for longer periods of time, as that can heat up your tires considerably.

Outlandish turbocharged power; sophisticated all - wheel - drive system helps with performance, handling and wet - weather traction; extreme grip when going around turns; many high - tech options available.

It's also worth remembering that the four - wheel - drive system makes the car feel more stable in normal conditions and limits the chances of an accident in extreme weather.

All season tires get better fuel economy and are designed to perform in a variety of conditions like wet roads and light winter driving but will not handle as well in more extreme weather.

This enables drivers to start their Civic in advance of the drive, thereby activating the climate control system with a target temperature of 72 degrees before they get to the vehicle — particularly helpful in extreme hot - or cold - weather conditions.

The Ford RS is packed with ground - breaking technologies which will enhance your driving experience and allows it to perform in the most extreme weather conditions.

This means that if you regularly drive in heavy city traffic, hilly terrains, dusty conditions, extreme hot or cold weather, your car needs more frequent oil changes, spark plug replacement and other maintenance.

In these extreme weather conditions the second generation of the successful BMW model can make full use of its driving dynamics qualities.

The first car ran flawlessly for 8,000 miles of extreme highway driving in North Dakota's worst winter weather.

The main reason for meteorological drought is the diversion of «normal» weather systems by jet streams, which of course are driven by temperature gradients.But I'm glad to see that you acknowledge that there are factors other than increased temperature which could be responsible for these extremes.

The millions of people all over the world who have already experienced mass destruction of their homes, livelihoods, food supply and / or water supply as a result of AGW - driven climate change and extreme weather might not agree that the changes we have seen so far are «not catastrophic».

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.

Here's a followup to my piece on how greenhouse - driven warming is loading the dice toward more hot weather extremes.

Focusing on the influence of greenhouse - driven climate change on weather extremes (except for rainfall and heat) takes the debate into terrain that favors those trying to exploit uncertainty because, for extremes that matter most to society, the science is murky, at best.

To see the relationship between extreme weather and public attitudes on human - driven climate change, check out the latest report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication — «Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind April 2013.»

Climate talks must succeed to prevent more extreme weather driving up food prices and pushing millions into poverty, says top charity Oxfam.

The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices and emissions will rise when extreme weather results in natural gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of natural gas (and wholesale energy) and forcing New England to rely on oil - and coal - fired generation for multi-day (or multi-week) periods.»

At this point, does it really matter what we call the dramatic changes in the Earth's average temperatures that are driving the extreme weather events we now live through on a regular basis?

It is driving risks for crop yields in many regions and generally increases dangerous weather extremes around the globe, yet in the dry Sahel there seems to be a chance that further warming might indeed enhance water availability for farming and grazing.»

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.

Meanwhile, Britain's leading independent long range weather forecaster, Piers Corbyn, speaking on his WeatherAction.com website reports, «the world is now in one of its most extreme solar - lunar driven weather and earthquake / volcano events situations for at least 66 years and very likely twice that.»

The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the continent could be altering the jet stream [3]-- and thus weather patterns — over North America, Europe and Russia, increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events and driving winter storms south.

In the past few years, unusually warm air in the Arctic has driven winter storm tracks south into the United States, reflecting the complex and sometimes counteracting ways that climate change may affect local weather extremes.

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 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.

My answer to the narrowed question: • Identify adaptation policies that can be implemented to reduce impacts of extreme weather events (which will happen with or without greenhouse driven global warming) • Research on nuclear energy to reduce the stigma of nuclear generation, e.g., fast reactors (Generation 4 reactors) or thorium fueled.

The results presented here support the overall hypothesis that QRA is an important mechanism driving many of the recent exceptional extreme weather events.

The vast energies released by moister air and warmer oceans are driving weather to extremes.

That in every country we reject coal that hurts our health, that destroys our rivers and mountains, and that contributes to the climate change driving extreme weather like Typhoon Yolanda.»

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.

A 2012 study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and coauthored by Francis, concluded global warming was driving changes in extreme weather in North America.