Sentences with phrase «extreme climate changes as»

Instead of including projections for extreme climate changes as a result of continued human emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from our production of energy, the high - end projections would have featured relatively modest changes and the low - end projections would have been completely unremarkable.

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Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

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.

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.

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

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.

The fact that large pockets of people across the world are still living in extreme poverty is being exacerbated by rises in global food and fuel prices, as well as 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.

The environment secretary showed little patience with climate change sceptics, pointing to recent examples of extreme weather as proof climate change is already happening.

«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.

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.»

The challenge may become harder in the future, as man - made climate change makes more extreme storms more likely in the Northeast.

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.

As worldwide temperatures rise and the earth sees extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter, a team of researchers with the University of Florida and Kansas State University have found that that there is potential for insects - and possibly other animals - to acclimate and rapidly evolve in the face of this current climate change.

Many people see heat as more of an annoyance than a threat, but climate change, extreme heat and human health are entwined.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

«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.

A carbon policy would help protect Americans from the worst effects of climate change, such as extreme heat waves and droughts.

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.

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.

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.

Just as Australian farmers have looked to Israel on how to grow crops in a desert, Australia's struggle with extreme heat and drought could serve as a case study for other nations facing similar situations under climate change.

It may soon be followed, however, by yet more flooding in coming years: climate change may increase the likelihood of extreme weather, such as excessive summer rains, that give rise to such natural disasters.

Whiting, now a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, describes the alligator as a survivor, withstanding sea - level fluctuations and extreme changes in climate that would have caused some less - adaptive animals to rapidly change or go extinct.

The authors review general trends in climate, with particular emphasis on biologically meaningful parameters such as continuous dry days and changes in climate extremes and forest disturbance patterns.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

CSW and others are calling for the creation of a new cabinet - level agency called the National Climate Service to oversee both climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather Climate Service to oversee both climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather events.

«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.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report by the World Bank showed on Monday.

In addition to showing how plants tolerate extreme conditions, which we're likely to see more of as the climate changes, the discovery also holds promise for practical applications involving novel light - reflecting surfaces.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

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.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.

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.

The changing climate will enhance the wide variations in weather that mid-latitude regions already experience from year to year and bring an increased number of extreme events such as heat waves and hailstorms, Busalacchi says.

This approach should be useful to managers who must decide how much water to release for agricultural use or to conserve behind dams, especially as climate change is expected to bring about more frequent and extreme floods and droughts.

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).

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 role played by biodiversity in the ability of ecosystems to continue functioning during extreme weather events, which are increasingly frequent as a result of climate change, remains poorly understood.