Sentences with phrase «effects of extreme heat»

For the hottest climates, air conditioned storage spaces cool and help protect your valuable items from the effects of extreme heat.

In order to see the effects of extreme heat events on the United States, the researchers developed models to simulate scenarios analogous to that of Europe's for heat - sensitive urban areas.

Keeping your dog cool in the summer is all about minimizing the effects of extreme heat on your pet.

It's a clean - looking shield that greatly reduces radiant heat resulting in a cooler cabin interior and overall component protection from the effects of extreme heat.

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.

«It's often assumed that extreme weather causes the majority of deaths, with most previous research focusing on the effects of extreme heat waves,» says lead author Dr Antonio Gasparrini from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK.

Not exact matches

Also at 1 p.m., NYC Senior Director of Climate Policy and Programs Daniel Zarrilli, Office of Recovery and Resiliency Director Jainey Bavishi and others announce a new program to help curb the effects of extreme summer heat, Fordham University, O'Hare Hall, Rooftop, 2691 Southern Blvd., Bronx.

A carbon policy would help protect Americans from the worst effects of climate change, such as extreme heat waves and droughts.

Heat extremes have adverse effects on human health and increase the risk of death across regions in the world,» Zhao said.

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.

Winters have been warming more rapidly than summers, and while less extreme cold sounds appealing, the future effects of blistering summer heat are expected to outweigh the benefits of milder winters.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

The U.S. will likely face the effects of human - induced climate change including rising seas and more frequent bouts of extreme heat.

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.

Rhodiola Rosea is an adaptogenic herb which means that it builds resistance to all areas of bodily stress such as extreme heat or cold, toxic chemicals, sleep deprivation, and depression, while producing a normalizing effect on the body.

Immature flea life stages are susceptible to the effects of drying, extreme heat and cold and direct sunlight.

Speaking of Illinois laws, a new bill in effect as of January 1, 2016 makes it a misdemeanor offense for people to leave pets outside in extreme heat or cold.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

Thus much more than 1C of the extreme heat could be due to global warming because of this local effect.

Warming over land can have multiple effects, including melting of mountain glaciers, spread of deserts in continental interiors, greater flooding, more frequent heat waves and other extreme weather patterns.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

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 effects of temperature extremes on human health have been well documented for increased heat waves, 46,47,48,49 which cause more deaths, 50,51 hospital admissions52, 53,54 and population vulnerability.55, 56

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

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

AGWSF's Greenhouse Effect doesn't have convection because it doesn't have real gases, it has substituted the imaginary ideal gas without properties and processes, but our real Earth's atmosphere does have convection — the heavy ocean of real fluid gas oxygen and nitrogen weighing a ton on our shoulders, a stone per square inch, acts like a blanket around the Earth stopping the heat escaping, compare with the Moon which has extreme swings of temperature.

But even this metropolis is feeling the effects of a changing climate — primarily in the form of increased flooding and extreme heat and humidity.

That's why I used the expression «represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment» (temperature increase by 2100 of up to 6.4 C, increased droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, extreme high sea level plus secondary effects, such as crop failures, spread of vector diseases, loss of drinking water from melting glaciers, etc. all as listed in IPCC AR4).

Finds that water quality and fishing pressure had minimal effect on the unprecedented bleaching in 2016, suggesting that local protection of reefs affords little or no resistance to extreme heat

In Nigeria, extreme heat (38 %) is the most troubling effect of global climate change.

Cities are afflicted by the notorious heat island effect, and climate scientists have repeatedly warned that extremes of heat and humidity could rise to potentially lethal levels in many of the world's great cities.

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.

Changes in the heating and cooling degree days are another likely extreme temperature - related effect of future greenhouse warming.

The detrimental effect of extreme summer heat is likely to be further exacerbated by increased atmospheric moisture.

While the rising temperatures of global warming may be pushing the atmosphere towards greater extremes of weather - with all the destructive potential that implies - that extra heat is also having an effect on the oceans.

I know I am starting seeds, and talking about gardening, but there is always a part of me that is worrying about the long terms effects of the last two years extreme heat, and of course, what the Spring and -LSB-...]

What I'm trying to get at is that the extremes of temperature get smoothed out by the low pass filter of the atmosphere and that heat transfer between sections of the atmosphere is probably far more important than any minimal effects of greenhouse gasses.

[Response: Your argument misses the point in three different and important ways, not even considering whether or not the Black Hills data have any general applicability elsewhere, which they may or may not: (1) It ignores the point made in the post about the potential effect of previous, seasonal warming on the magnitude of an extreme event in mid summer to early fall, due to things like (especially) a depletion in soil moisture and consequent accumulation of degree days, (2) it ignores that biological sensitivity is far FAR greater during the warm season than the cold season for a whole number of crucial variables ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to transpiration rates, and (3) it ignores the potential for derivative effects, particularly fire and smoke, in radically increasing the local temperature effects of the heat wave.

In addition to offering areas for recreation and benefits to mental and physical health, urban green spaces «filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events,» according to the agency, whose recent assessment on urban ecosystems concluded that «with the right policies and tools, urbanization does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond.»

Climate change poses risks to human health through shifting weather patterns, increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification, among other environmental effects.

Frequency of extreme heat event as a surrogate exposure metric for examining the human health effects of climate change

«We're not used to extreme temperatures in this country,» says Nick Taylor, Sales Director at Zip UK, «and making sure we drink enough is just one way of making sure our bodies are better equipped to cope with the effects of heat.»

This creates a sandwich effect which is fused together using extreme heat (that's temperatures of 280 to 320 degrees Fahrenheit!)