Sentences with phrase «effect of extreme weather events»

OxfamAmerica said that a «major contributor» to this price surge has been the disastrous effect of extreme weather events on harvests of certain crops.

According to the Rutgers - Camden researcher, the study supports the hypothesis that organisms living in high - stress urban medians possess adaptions to disturbance, making them more resilient to the effects of extreme weather events than organisms living in relatively low - stress city parks.

«It's very encouraging because it suggests that we may be able to make smart management decisions to mitigate the damaging effects of extreme weather events on urban ecosystems.»

Internationally, with developing countries especially vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events, I recommend support for adaptation on the same scale as the president's $ 15bn five - year plan for aids relief.

As discussed earlier, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that communities of color, poor communities, and certain other vulnerable populations (like new immigrant communities) are at a higher risk to the adverse effects of extreme weather events.263, 264,239 These vulnerable populations could benefit from urban planning policies that ensure that new buildings, including homes, are constructed to resist extreme weather events.303

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

It focuses on the effects of extreme weather events on agriculture, looking at examples from the recent past and to future projections.

Analysis of insurance data convinces environmental economists that climate change is pushing up the cost of dealing with the disastrous effects of extreme weather events.

Tukuitonga told the gathering the South Pacific countries, through climate change alone, had been taking massive losses to annual gross domestic product (GDP)-- 20 - 30 % or more — due to the effects of extreme weather events, especially cyclones.

Not exact matches

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

That's a bill that really will focus the state on considering the effects of climate change and extreme weather events.

While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.

Although looking at the rarity of these events one might presume that weather extremes have little effect, the number of animals killed in the storms left a persistent recruitment legacy.

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

As climate change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Amplification of existing health threats: The effects of extreme heat and heat waves, projected worsening air pollution and asthma, extreme rainfall and flooding, and displacement and injuries associated with extreme weather events, fueled by climate change, are already substantial public health issues.

Health effects of these disruptions include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in the prevalence and geographical distribution of food - and waterborne illnesses and other infectious diseases, and threats to mental health.

Jiacan has worked on several projects on climate dynamics, including the response of large - scale circulations in the warming climate, its effects on regional weather patterns and extreme events, tropical influence on mid-latitude weather, and dynamical mechanisms of sub-seasonal variability of mid-latitude jet streams.

The impacts of extreme weather events include illness or death as a result of heat stress, injuries, drowning, air and water contamination, and mental health effects.

«Simple physics (effect of [sea - level rise] on storm surge) and simple thermodynamics (i.e. Clausius - Clapeyron) are valid whether or not we can trust the models to get the specifics dynamical linkages between climate change and extreme weather events right (and I'm deeply skeptical the models are up to this task at present).»

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

Here is the # 1 flawed reasoning you will have seen about this question: it is the classic confusion between absence of evidence and evidence for absence of an effect of global warming on extreme weather events.

In any event if you want to get a feeling for the effects of extreme weather it is a good one.

I do think they «aren't needed» to support the assertion that various global warming - related factors have observably played a role in causing, contributing to, and / or greatly exacerbating the destructive effects of recent «extreme weather events».

We expect from CO2 - based warming less severe «extreme weather events» because of the blanket effect and less heat differential between the equator and the poles.

The scientists will outline how only a combined strategy employing all the major sustainable clean energy options — including renewables and nuclear — can prevent the worst effects of climate change by 2100, such as the loss of coral reefs, severe damages from extreme weather events, and the destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide.

This analytical report looks at how the key causes of the current food crisis are the combined effects of speculation in food stocks, extreme weather events, low cereal stocks, growth in biofuels competing for cropland and high oil prices.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

The effects of weather extremes on human health have been well documented, particularly for increased heavy precipitation, which has contributed to increases in severe flooding events in certain regions.

Children, primarily because of physiological and developmental factors, will disproportionately suffer from the effects of heat waves, 50 air pollution, infectious illness, and trauma resulting from extreme weather events.137, 17,19,22,256,241,231,232

In summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changes.

Health effects of these disruptions include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in the prevalence and geographical distribution of food - and waterborne illnesses and other infectious diseases, and threats to mental health.

The science of climate change «attribution» — linking specific extreme weather events to the effects of global warming — is making substantial progress, so it is becoming increasingly possible for scientists to tie particular weather patterns to climate change.

One of the key effects of global warming and climate change is an increase in extreme weather events and natural disasters.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

So even if the State comments had properly considered the real effect of climate change on extreme weather events instead of the inappropriate total cost of a storm, there are a legitimate range of potential outcomes --(15 % more intense to 3 % more intense).

Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11

Report on the workshop on the development of early warning systems and contingency plans in relation to extreme weather events and their effects such as desertification, drought, floods, landslides, storm surge, soil erosion, and saline water intrusion.

A physicist is no more likely than a sociologist to know what human emissions will be 50 years from now — if a slight warming would be beneficial or harmful to humans or the natural world; if forcings and feedbacks will partly or completely offset the theoretical warming; if natural variability will exceed any discernible human effect; if secondary effects on weather will lead to more extreme or more mild weather events; if efforts to reduce emissions will be successful; who should reduce emissions, by what amounts, or when; and whether the costs of attempting to reduce emissions will exceed the benefits by an amount so large as to render the effort counterproductive.

If the negative effects of climate change, the rising air temperatures, the changing precipitation, the prevalence of extreme weather events, and the rising sea levels, become too disruptive or costly, we have the option to deploy certain climate altering technologies to remove greenhouse gases directly from the air or reflect sunlight back out of the atmosphere before it warms the earth.

In the report, 10 case studies outline current effects of climate change, from infectious diseases such as malaria and West Nile virus to extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods.

And the effects of just a few of the inevitable extreme weather events that are increasing in frequency could easily match decades of SRL.

As the effects of our changing climate, such as extreme weather events, poorer air quality, and rising surface temperatures, are becoming more apparent, it is key to provide accurate and timely information to those in need.

Whilst the extent of climate change is often expressed in a single figure — global temperature — the effects of climate change (such as temperature, precipitation and the frequency of extreme weather events) will vary greatly from place to place.

A 2012 Carbon Tracker report asserted that 80 percent of fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, including more intense and frequent extreme weather events, changes in water availability and the spread of vector and waterborne diseases.

Among the effects could be more frequent, extreme weather events and droughts, rapid sea level rise from icecap melting, breakdown of the marine food chain and worst of all, feedback effects like large releases of methane from thawing permafrost, or large scale dieback of forests.

At this point, the effects of natural fluctuations in water availability in the form of extreme weather events become even more potentially disruptive than normal.

Yet despite the lack of any evidence of unusually extreme weather and the lack of reliable data, Easterlng and Parmesan's paper ironically marked the beginning of an era in which every weather event would soon be translated into «unprecedented extremes» caused by CO2 climate change, and again Parmesan's butterfly effect was again instrumental in promoting biological doom.