Sentences with phrase «extreme cost of climate change»

California Gov. Jerry Brown, whose state is currently being ravaged by wildfires, said, «Scrapping the Clean Power Plan ignores sound science and the extreme cost of climate change.»

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She is demanding the prime minister reverse cuts to the Environment Agency budget, invest in flood defences and factor in climate change projections to the future cost of extreme weather.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for economic stability.

Considering extreme events over the current millennium so far — including several mentioned above — I arrive at the unscientific but not unreasonable rough estimate that climate change so far has cost on the order of 100,000 premature deaths and in excess of $ 100 billion US.

If we make the switch and rely on renewable sources of energy like the sun, we can save billions of dollars by avoiding not only the costs of replacing these plants, but also the increasingly higher costs of climate change in areas like healthcare expenses and damage from extreme weather.

APS, like the vast majority of fossil - fueled electric utilities, refuses to recognize the enormous costs of pollution to public health (17 - 27 cents / kWh for coal according to Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard), the hidden costs of leaking coal ash ponds, and the looming costs of climate change, drought and extreme weather.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

The global cost of natural disasters is getting higher as the number of extreme weather events increases due to climate change.

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

The NOAA report highlights the extreme costs of climate and weather disasters despite President Donald Trump and his administration's skepticism — and downright indifference — towards climate policy, from pulling the U.S. out of the Paris agreement to dropping climate change from the list of national security threats.

The scope and impacts of climate change — including rising seas, more damaging extreme weather events, and severe ecological disruption — demand that we consider all possible options for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions — including their respective costs and timelines for implementation.

So even if the State comments had properly considered the real effect of climate change on extreme weather events instead of the inappropriate total cost of a storm, there are a legitimate range of potential outcomes --(15 % more intense to 3 % more intense).

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

While it's hard to pin a dollar value on damages, economic models suggest climate change already costs hundreds of billions in damages globally during the 20th century through lost crops, rising seas and more extreme weather.

Paging George Orwell: Stern Review «mysteriously changed» — Prof. Pielke, Jr.: «As much as 40 % of the Stern Review projections for the global costs of unmitigated climate change derive from its misuse of (extreme weather paper)» http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-tangled-web-we-weave.html

See: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: «An argument that mitigation of ghgs makes sense in terms of decreasing the future costs of extreme events is not a strong one» — «Even under the assumptions of IPCC, Stern Review, etc. the future costs of extreme events under the most aggressive scenarios of climate change actually decrease as a proportion of GDP»

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

Assessing the dynamics of resilience could help insurers and governments reduce the costs of climate - risk insurance schemes and secure future insurability in the face of an increase in extreme hydro - meteorological events related to climate change.

Analysis of insurance data convinces environmental economists that climate change is pushing up the cost of dealing with the disastrous effects of extreme weather events.

«Climate change is causing fire seasons to start earlier and finish later, with an associated trend towards more extreme wildfire events in terms of their geographic extent and duration, intensity, severity, associated suppression costs, and loss of life and property,» the scientists write.

Even though there may be subtle changes from year - to - year in the magnitude of extreme events (although I am not sure that one can demonstrate this statistically) I am sure that expenditures on the shorter term will be more cost effective than planning for the changes associated with climate change.

Meanwhile, a flood of new research has convincingly connected a rise in extreme weather events, especially droughts and heatwaves, to global climate change, and a recent report by the DARA Group and Climate Vulnerability Forum finds that climate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trclimate change, and a recent report by the DARA Group and Climate Vulnerability Forum finds that climate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trClimate Vulnerability Forum finds that climate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trclimate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trillion.

Many state and local officials, especially in New York and New Jersey, understand the true costs of climate change, as they have been forced to contend with extreme storms, droughts, and wildfires.