Sentences with phrase «exacerbated by the higher temperatures»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights that many of these events are exacerbated by the higher temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels, although science still largely falls short of being able to attribute them directly.

This effect is exacerbated by high temperature.

Pushed by strong winds and exacerbated by high temperatures and bone - dry humidity of just 3 percent at one point, the blaze turned into Oklahoma's third megafire in three years.

Not exact matches

The forecasted CO2 boost — as much as 10 percent — in crop growth will be more than offset by the 20 to 40 percent drop due to higher temperatures alone — and will be further exacerbated by any drying, Battisti warns.

«Higher temperatures exacerbate the drought by increasing evaporation and transpiration,» Westerling said.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

The authors showed that a widespread, severe drought - and - beetle - induced die - off of pinyon pine in the American Southwest was exacerbated by higher average temperatures, relative to past episodes of drought.

temperature could have exacerbated the 2014 drought by approximately 36 %... These observations from the paleoclimate record suggest that high temperatures have combined with the low but not yet exceptional precipitation deficits to create the worst short - term drought of the last millennium for the state of California... Future severe droughts are expected to be in part driven by anthropogenic influences and temperatures outside the range of the last millennium.