Sentences with phrase «extreme areas increasing»

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«As extreme weather becomes the new normal, homes and businesses are faced with increasing risks — especially in flood - prone areas,» Governor Cuomo said.

«Our results indicate that areas of eastern Texas, Florida, the south - east and mid-Atlantic are areas where rapid population growth, acting in concert with a warming climate, will lead to a significant increase in exposure to heat extremes,» says Jones.

Longer, hotter fire seasons where extreme fire behavior has become the new norm, as well as increased development in forested areas, is dramatically driving up the cost of fighting fires and squeezing funding for the very efforts that would protect watersheds and restore forests to make them more resilient to fire.

We contend that the rate of adaptation might also increase to match that of environmental degradation by carefully selecting coral populations from extreme environments and introducing them to areas that are only now beginning to experience such extremes.

This could help avoid their own local extinction due to ever - increasing habitat degradation in their original range, could provide potentially robust stock for denuded areas, and assist in shortening the time needed for adaptation of stocks yet naïve to such extremes.

Large areas of the world have already experienced an increase in extreme events, they found — and these risks will only worsen as the climate continues to warm.

As the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report notes, models predict that increasing temperature ought to cause greater precipitation extremes in both directions — both drought and flooding, though there are likely more areas of heavy precipitation.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

According to research from Purdue University, hotter, drier conditions and increased odds of extreme weather events associated with climate change may prove fatal for walnut trees, bringing economic consequences to areas across the nation.

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Severe Weather and Precipitation: Many areas in the United States will experience more frequent and extreme storm events; this includes high winds and increased precipitation.

Adaptive brake lights increase the brake - light area and intensity under sudden hard braking, also including the taillights in extreme situations.

Up to 2020, you can expect more of the trends we are already seeing — increased weather extremes, increased losses due to severe weather, possibly some pressure on food production in marginal areas.

All projections I've seen (e.g., UW CIG) indicate this region will remain pleasantly habitable for people for longer than other areas (think Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona) under the pressure of increasing numbers and extremes of weather «anomalies.»

Importantly, they found that SLR will result in stronger increases in the number of moderate (or high - frequency) events in some places, e.g. Charleston or New York on the east coast, whereas other areas will experience a more rapid increase in the number of rare extreme (or low - frequency) events, e.g. Seattle on the west coast.

But, it's beyond obvious that polar temperatures are increasing both significantly and quickly, and the same is true (but possibly less extreme) in sub-arctic areas, as witnessed by the unprecedented melting of glaciers around the world.

Displacement risk increases when populations that lack the resources for planned migration experience higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly in developing countries with low income.

Since the TAR, the observational basis of analyses of extremes has increased substantially, so that some extremes have now been examined over most land areas (e.g., daily temperature and rainfall extremes).

Hanoi, Viet Nam, 26 February 2018 — In his welcome remarks to participants of the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) workshop, APN Secretariat Director, Mr. Seiji Tsutsui underscored that «Southeast Asia is a natural disaster - prone region, and it is predicted that disasters such as floods, typhoons, high - tides and landslides will be more extreme because of the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and increasing population concentration in urban areas.»

Given projected increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the Midwest (Chapter 2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 6), 57 it appears that sewer overflow will continue to constitute a significant current health threat and a critical source of climate change vulnerability for major urban areas within the Midwest.

Evidence that extreme precipitation is increasing is based primarily on analysis1, 2,3 of hourly and daily precipitation observations from the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network, and is supported by observed increases in atmospheric water vapor.4 Recent publications have projected an increase in extreme precipitation events, 1,5 with some areas getting larger increases6 and some getting decreases.7, 2

Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold.

Using WBGT as a measure of environmental conditions conducive to heat stress, we show that anthropogenic influence has very substantially increased the likelihood of extreme high summer mean WBGT in northern hemispheric land areas relative to the climate that would have prevailed in the absence of anthropogenic forcing.

Pielke is right that an increase in the number of valuable properties in high - risk areas is overwhelmingly the primary cause of increased financial losses from extreme weather events over the past few decades.

* 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species likely to be at increased risk of extinction * many millions more people than today projected to experience floods every year due to sea level rise * increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas * hundreds of millions of people exposed to increased water stress

The results obtained by Donat and his team suggest that both annual precipitation and extreme precipitation increased by 1 — 2 % per decade in dry regions, with wet areas showing similar increases in the extent of extreme precipitation and smaller increases for annual totals.

«increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas»

Since large portions of the mid - and high latitude land areas have had increasing precipitation during the last half the 20th century, the question arises as to how much of this area is affected by increases in heavy and extreme precipitation rates.

The economic and social costs of extreme weather events will increase substantially in areas where they become more intense or more frequent.

Many decision makers, particularly in the United States and Canada, have the financial, human and institutional capacity to invest in resilience, yet a trend of rising losses from extremes has been evident across the continent (Figure 26 - 2), largely due to socio - economic factors, including a growing population, equity issues and increased property value in areas of high exposure.

Average precipitation is changing in many regions with both increases and decreases and there is a general tendency for increases in extreme precipitation observed over land areas.

And it found: «Where extreme weather events become more intense and / or more frequent, the economic and social costs of those events will increase, and these increases will be substantial in the areas most directly affected.»

More extreme heat raises the risk of heat - related illnesses, like heat exhaustion, and allows insects to move into new areas, potentially increasing the spread of vector - borne diseases.

Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer.5 The hottest days and nights have become hotter and more frequent.6 7 In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50 - fold.8 Over the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likely.

Climate models project increasing days of extreme rainfall in the Northwest, Midwest, and parts of the Northeast, including some populated coastal areas that are already challenged by inundation and sea level rise.

And, in addition to the shoreline erosion, the costs, severity, and frequency of extreme storms like Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, and Typhoon Haiyan are expected to increase in those areas.

In addition, during the 20th century, temperature increases, rainfall increases and decreases, and changes in extreme events, were reported for several areas.

Another aspect of these projected changes is that wet extremes are projected to become more severe in many areas where mean precipitation is expected to increase, and dry extremes are projected to become more severe in areas where mean precipitation is projected to decrease.

Ecosystem responses to past rainfall variability in the Sahel are potentially useful as an analogue of future climate change impacts, in the light of projections that extreme drought - affected terrestrial areas will increase from 1 % to about 30 % globally by the 2090s (Burke et al., 2006).

«Historic and future increase in the global land area affected by monthly heat extremes» (Dim Coumou and Alexander Robinson 2013 Environ.

Intensified heat waves, droughts, and other weather extremes would also bring increased danger to affected areas.

In order to help countries build resilience, the Bank will prioritize the most vulnerable areas, manage water availability and extremes, and increase its efforts to meet growing food demand.

This means areas of increased variability are not necessarily the areas that have experienced extreme heat waves.

The increase, by more than a factor 10, of area covered by extreme hot summer anomalies (> +3 σ) reflects the shift of the anomaly distribution in the past 30 y of global warming, as shown succinctly in Fig. 4.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

As the most recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change notes, the impacts of climate change are already being felt around the world as seas rise, extreme weather events increase, areas suffer drought or flood, and plants and animals edge closer to extinction.

These same people, on the other hand, would dismiss the 2003 heatwave across western Europe (with well - publicised increases in the numbers of elderly people dying in France) as extreme weather caused by a blocked area of high pressure.

With flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutions.