Sentences with phrase «extreme climate change not»

Not exact matches

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

There's still a lot we don't know about why some weather is so extreme and how much climate change is to blame (especially when it comes to hurricanes).

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

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

Unless... Suppose David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced that they agreed with Ed Miliband's warning over the weekend that Britain is «sleepwalking to a crisis», and that «climate change threatens national security» — and went on to commit themselves to working together on a long - term plan to protect the nation not just from extreme weather conditions but the other consequences of climate change.

The visitor to the institution who identified series of challenges confronting the nation including «infant mortality, extreme poverty, insecurity, climate change, the rabid activities of terrorists, described these problems as monsters which can not be allowed to prowl the street without being controlled.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

The environment secretary faced calls for his resignation today, as Green campaigners warned that a climate change sceptic should not be left at Cabinet level during extreme weather conditions.

He didn't utter the words «climate change» but Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference earlier today that weather is getting more extreme and dangerous, forcing New York to rethink how it builds its infrastructure and transportation.

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

The problem, says Matthews, is that historical data is not a very good guide to the future of freshwater resources — particularly now that extreme water conditions have been exacerbated by a rapidly changing climate.

«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.

In fact, one symptom of a changing climate could be more varied or more extreme weather — but a couple of heavy snows wouldn't prove that either.

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.

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.

The IPCC's climate report says that the most extreme scenarios of future warming are looking less likely — but this doesn't change the big picture

«People are pretty certain of where they stand on climate change, and extreme weather does not really move the needle much,» he said.

Steffen was not surprised by the finding that climate change led to an increase in the likelihood of such an extreme summer.

Since climate change is already leading to higher average temperatures overall, the finding that extremes are also more likely was not surprising, said Sophie Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and the climate system science center and the lead author on the paper.

The reality (at least according to current science) is that the effects of climate change on extremes won't be detected for many decades.

While the frequency of extreme events is increasing, in combating climate change «there's this feeling that we have options we didn't have before,» he said.

«If one lives in Canada's north or in our coastal communities, or really in any community that is subject to extreme weather conditions, and the resulting floods, droughts, and wildfires, the effects of climate change itself, can not be denied.

«Unfortunately the fact that Kimberley corals are not immune to bleaching suggests that corals living in naturally extreme temperature environments are just as threatened by climate change as corals elsewhere,» says Dr Schoepf.

Climatologist John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, emphasized that it was not scientifically defensible to tie the recent droughts or specific extreme weather events to climate change, and highlighted the limitations of historical temperature records.

The team doesn't directly attribute the die - offs to climate change, but if extreme drought episodes become more frequent in the tropics — as climate models predict they will — the lions could suffer, Packer says.

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.

It ranks extreme weather events as second only to international conflicts, with natural catastrophes, not acting on climate change and water crises all featuring in the top 10.

Vulnerability to winter weather depends on many non-climate factors, including housing, age, and baseline health.185, 186 While deaths and injuries related to extreme cold events are projected to decline due to climate change, these reductions are not expected to compensate for the increase in heat - related deaths.187, 188,189

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

The thing about climate change: it doesn't hit home, until it (literally) hits home — extreme storms, droughts, flash floods and accelerating sea level rise triggering more frequent coastal flooding.

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.

But now climate change hysteria has taken on new, more extreme witch - hunting dimensions that are on par with, if not even surpassing, those of the Dark Ages — a time -LSB-...]

Such mixed results aren't unusual in attribution science, which seeks to look for the causes, whether climate change or natural fluctuations, that change the odds of extreme weather events.

«In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

«The field of extreme event attribution is not just about anthropogenic climate change,» Sobel said.

«For a long time, the standard answer of climate scientists to an extreme event was «we can't attribute single events to climate change», which when you think about it is an incredibly naive position.

«Simple physics (effect of [sea - level rise] on storm surge) and simple thermodynamics (i.e. Clausius - Clapeyron) are valid whether or not we can trust the models to get the specifics dynamical linkages between climate change and extreme weather events right (and I'm deeply skeptical the models are up to this task at present).»

Single extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.

«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.

I have a question for you — as you know, «climate change» is happening... whether human caused or not, it certainly feels like we are seeing more extreme weathers of late.

Their point was that the rate of new extreme values can be attributed and therefore their conclusion amounts to «Seing N new records...» (rather than «Seing this new record») has odds of 1:1 e5 - 1e6 of being climate change.

So while scientists can not attribute Hurricane Katrina, drought, or other extreme weather events to climate change, they can say climate change increases the risk of these occurring.

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.

It is certainly not the case that there is demonstrable link between every extreme and climate change (and indeed, some extremes — like bitter cold spells — are predicted to become less frequent).

Because the title is comparing Hegerl's results not with the standard range, but with the subject of your post, namely «recent research suggesting that the climate may be susceptible to extreme increases in temperature», noting that «Several studies have found that the temperature change may be higher than 16.2 ºF (9ºC).

The millions of people all over the world who have already experienced mass destruction of their homes, livelihoods, food supply and / or water supply as a result of AGW - driven climate change and extreme weather might not agree that the changes we have seen so far are «not catastrophic».

This is exactly what Climate Change looks like as it's IMPACTS are happening in the real world (versus in the scientific theory papers)-- all kind sof unexpected unplanned for extreme events and a built infrastructure and building not up to the extreme demands of topdays extreme weather events across an entire Continent.

But it's possible, and even if this particular disaster is not attributable to climate change, it still exemplifies very well what the risks from extreme precipitation «look like», in the Bay area and around the world.