Sentences with phrase «extreme climate change events»

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

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Well, extreme weather events are known to move climate change up Americans» priority list.

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

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

No single weather event — even an extreme one — can be «caused» by climate change, as Vox's David Roberts has explained in detail.

Recent extreme weather events, such as the flooding in Ontario and Quebec last summer and the forest fires in British Columbia and Alberta, are directly connected to climate change, McKenna says.

Climate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toClimate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toclimate events like hurricanes or tornados.

Because climate change is linked to an increase in severe weather events — like hurricanes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures — poorer countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to handle them leave millions at risk.

Historic Environment Scotland report that Ewan Hyslop, Head of Technical Research and Science at HES, said: «Climate change poses a number of very real threats to Scotland's historic environment, from an increased frequency of extreme and unpredictable weather events to rising sea - levels.»

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.

Being climate resilient means farms are empowered to better withstand and adapt to a changing climate — and be able to bounce back after extreme weather events.

Environment secretary faces calls for his resignation, as Green campaigners warn that a climate change sceptic should not be in post during extreme weather events

Natural England commissioned report NECR149 «The role of landscape and site scale characteristics in making species populations resilient to climate change and extreme events» http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5849831096451072 BASC white paper «The role of shooting in landscape - scale land management» http://basc.org.uk/business-intelligence-unit/what-we-do/white-papers/

It states, in part, «Creating a sustainable regional food system that meets [the $ 1 billion] demand and offers equal access to nutritious food will improve public health, bolster the city's «good food» economy, build resilience in the wake of extreme weather events and reduce the city's «foodprint» as a way to mitigate the impacts of climate change.»

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey claimed «ignorant» climate change sceptic Conservatives are contributing to «extreme weather events» in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier.

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

On climate change: In response to extreme weather events, Mr. Cuomo said he will launch Resilient NY, a program meant to enhance how communities recover after climate change - related events.

Marcia Bystryn, President of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said, «The most important lesson New York can learn from Superstorm Sandy is that we must do a better job planning for a changing climate and extreme weather events.

Ruling out natural variability, scientists say several of 2016's extreme weather events wouldn't have happened without human - caused climate change.

«This new way of viewing the problem could be a game changer in the attribution of extreme events by providing a framework to quantify the portion of the damage that can be attributed to climate change — even for events that themselves can not be directly attributed to climate change using traditional methods,» continues Hammerling.

The research will become important across agricultural regions, she says, as climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events around the world.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

While much of the emphasis regarding climate change is on overall warming, increased frequency of extreme weather events is also a critical concern.

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

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more 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.

A new analysis published in Marine Geology shows that the limestone islands of the Bahamas and Bermuda experienced climate changes that were even more extreme than historical events.

This does not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be said to be simply «caused» by human - induced climate change — usually such events are complex, with many causes.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

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

This is the second time the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has collected information on the previous year's weather extremes and tried to tease out the role of climate change in those events.

In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the influence of climate change on a variety of recent extreme weather and climate events, including marine heat waves.

But now, for the first time, climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether climate change played a role.

Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species factors in climate change, but a species that stays stable as temperatures rise gradually might be hit much harder by an extreme event.

Assessing climate change impacts on extreme weather events: the case for an alternative (Bayesian) approach.

For the last six years, BAMS has published a December issue containing research on extreme weather events from the previous year that seeks to disentangle the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability.

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.

In recent years, many studies have sought to unsnarl the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability on extreme weather events (SN: 1/20/18, p. 6).

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.

He just completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, where he studied how the increase in extreme weather events due to climate change is affecting people's health.

NEW ORLEANS — For the first time, scientists have definitively linked human - caused climate change to extreme weather events.

Connecting extreme weather to climate change distracts from the need to protect society from high - impact weather events which will continue to happen irrespective of human - induced climate change, say experts.

If it turns out climate change is making extreme weather events more likely, it is important to help locals build resilience, for instance by building irrigation systems to cope with drought, says Grainne Moloney, a chief technical adviser with FAO Somalia, a division of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

In today's context of global change leading to extreme climate events impacting habitats, this message is more important than ever.