Sentences with phrase «extreme climate change impacts»

Doing so would represent a fairer share of global emission reductions, ensure the country takes full advantage of its mitigation potential, and increase the chance of limiting warming to below 2 degrees C, to help avoid the most extreme climate change impacts.

Not exact matches

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

The panel is expected to discuss topics ranging from the impact of climate change on New Yorkers» health, the increase in extreme weather such as heightened flood risk, and recent efforts by the state to respond.

«Given that the leading cause of power outages is extreme weather — which is exacerbated by climate change — the Trump administration's head - in - the - sand approach would actually undermine grid resiliency and reliability while promoting climate change and its catastrophic impacts,» he said.

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.»

Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate change's impacts on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.

«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.

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.

«Our results suggest, however, that climate change may constrain reproduction of early - flowering plants mostly through the direct impacts of extreme environmental conditions rather than disrupted plant - pollinator interactions.»

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.

Risky Business based its findings on data from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as peer - reviewed literature on extreme weather impacts on crops, labor productivity and energy system performance.

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

The team warns that if the Middle East becomes more arid in the long term due to climate change, extreme dust storms may become more common, and their impact unavoidable.

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.

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

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

It speaks eloquently of stewardship of God's creation and care for the poor, those already affected by the exacerbating impacts of climate change on droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather.

The bill focuses heavily on the likely impacts of climate change in Mexico and points to concerns over the increase in extreme weather events.

Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate could boost the number of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

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.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

New research chronicles those impacts and also points to more extremes in the future as climate change adds another

Climate change and the impact of extreme temperatures on aviation.

Various studies predict an average 30 percent reduction in farm incomes due to climate change impacts, including greater extremes in temperatures and rainfall (floods, droughts) and the emergence of new pest and disease strains.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

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.

Fragile energy facilities, public utilities and ecosystems are also frequently vulnerable to weather extremes and the impacts of climate change.

Climate change may be perceived most through the impacts of extremes, although these are to a large degree dependent on the system under consideration, including its vulnerability, resiliency and capacity for adaptation and mitigation; see the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

He uses numerical models and large data sets to study financial risks related to climate change impacts and extreme weather events.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

Anthropogenic climate change is expected to have an impact on these types of events: warm temperature extremes and heavy precipitation extremes have -LSB-...]

«For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems,» the updated 2016 letter says.

«There has been so much written regarding the potential impacts of climate change, particularly as they relate to physical climate extremes,» added Bryan Jones, a postdoctoral researcher at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and lead author of the study.

Since polar bears have evolved to live in the extreme conditions of the Arctic, even minor climate changes could profoundly impact the species.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

«Harvey was not caused by climate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to human - caused global warming,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in a staclimate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to human - caused global warming,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in a staClimate Impact Research, in a statement.

We are at a remarkable juncture where (i) the price of oil and nitrogen - based fertilizers is expected to increase, (ii) the long term availability of phosphorus for fertilizers is in doubt, (iii) the erosion of soil is reducing yields, and (iv) climate change brings extreme weather that impacts crop survival and productivity.

An international team of researchers has identified the genetic mutations which allowed microalgae (phytoplankton) from the Southern Ocean to adapt to extreme and highly variable climates — a step towards understanding how polar organisms are impacted by climate change.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

The impacts and management of global climate change in extreme environments, including adaptation by local populations.

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.

Legislators and The Nature Conservancy works on plan to make New York more resilient and protected from climate change impacts, such as extreme weather and rising seas levels.