Sentences with phrase «extreme events become»

And, of course, if under such a scenario it is vulnerable, it continues to become more vulnerable as average temperatures rise and extreme events become more frequent, and more extreme.

climate scientist Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria says: «When you start to see the extreme events become more common, that's when you can say that it is a consequence of global warming.»

Not exact matches

«Today we have unsealed a nine - count indictment that outlines a pattern of self - dealing and corruption that spans decades and covers several events, including the defendant's failed bid to become the Brooklyn District Attorney,» U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said during a press conference announcing the charges, where she described Mr. Sampson's alleged conduct as «one of the most extreme examples of political hubris that we have yet seen.»

And the worst is yet to come: As the global thermostat rises, extreme weather events such as droughts and floods will become more frequent and intense in many regions, the United Nations warns.

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.

Today, ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising, oceans are warming, and weather events are becoming more extreme.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

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

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.

IN JANUARY, climate researchers warned that extreme El Niño events are likely to become more common as the planet warms.

«It quickly became clear that keeping global temperatures under 1.5 °C had a clear benefit for Australia in terms of reducing extreme events and the costs that come with them,» Dr King said.

«Being able to predict how and when these extreme events will affect ecosystems, and identify management practices that can help reduce the impacts, has become a high priority,» Silliman said.

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.

Earth's atmosphere may be more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought, which means that extreme weather events could become more frequent

«We know that sea levels are rising and that coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather - and climate - related events.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do justevents that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do justEvents and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

Climate forecasts indicate that the Southern High Plains will become drier with more frequent extreme heat events and decreased precipitation.

Near the event horizon — the threshold beyond which nothing can escape the hole's gravity — this deflection becomes extreme.

«Previous scientific studies have shown that extreme weather events are becoming more common, more intense, and longer lasting in response to our changing climate.

In the Gulf, extreme heat events that stress corals beyond their tolerance are becoming increasingly common and have led to significant population reduction (7).

The elderly and the very young are especially vulnerable to extreme heat events, which are poised to become more frequent and intense (ClimateWire, June 14).

Since then, Allen and his colleagues have been at the forefront of efforts to say whether particular extreme weather events have become more likely due to climate change.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

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.

Number one: climate - related extreme weather events have become far more serious and frequent, validating the predictions of the scientific community.

As extreme weather events likely connected to the planet's warming climate become increasingly common, low - income communities are positioned to suffer the worst consequences during the aftermath of natural disasters, write the authors of a report from the Center for American Progress called «One Storm Shy of Despair.»

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

With a changing global climate, the panel members said, what seem to be abnormally frequent, intense or otherwise extreme weather phenomena may become the new «normal» at the same time that humans, expanding to populate more geographical nooks and crannies, become increasingly vulnerable to these events.

If the Earth warms by three degrees Celsius, extreme events could become the normal...

These eight papers looking at extreme events in 2014 show just how much global warming has become a part of todays climate.

That study, based on temperature records extending back to 1880, found that while such an extreme winter would have been a once - a-decade event for that region back in the late 19th century, it «has become extraordinarily unlikely in the early 21st century» due to long - term warming, the authors wrote.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

An extreme weather event becomes a disaster when society and / or ecosystems are unable to cope with it effectively.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

The AAS joins the AGU in calling for continued peer - reviewed climate research to inform climate - related policy decisions, to provide a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global change, and to help communities adapt and become resilient to extreme climatic events.

Now with the rainy season underway Berkeley Lab's research — which seeks to understand how the hydrology and microbiology of the surface and groundwater system respond to extreme events — has become even more critical.

What follows is a series of increasingly insane events that take suspension of disbelief to impossible extremes and leave you stupefied wondering when this stopped becoming a film that aimed for a prescient vision of where our reliance on technology was headed and became a corny after school special from the»80s warning us of a future that's never going to happen.

This is especially true if your dog is blowing his coat (a biannual event where the shedding of the undercoat becomes extreme).

Thus, whenever any extreme weather event occurs, it is interpreted as evidence of «climate change,» which term has become equivalent to AGW, despite the fact that the relation between the two has never been established, but merely assumed.

A high occurrence of new record - events is an indication of a change in the «tails» of the frequency distribution and thus that values that in the past were considered extreme are becoming more common.

Basically, if you only care about the extreme events, they become massively more likely even with just a small increase in the mean of a distribution.

The real significance of extreme events is as harbingers, not just of a changing climate but also of a changing world in which human society and the infrastructure that supports it are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters.

But all were extreme events, both in terms of precipitation rates and of cost, of the sort which we expect to become much more frequent given both theory and observed metrics such as precipitable water in the atmosphere.

«And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has an ambitious plan to scale up green infrastructure, using green roofs, land conservation, permeable pavement and other approaches to help slow and absorb water during the extreme precipitation events that are becoming more common with climate change.

This trend, combined with the expectation of some events becoming more extreme because of changes in climate patterns, challenges the human capacity to adapt.

Global temperature averages are creeping upward, seas are warming, rising and becoming more acidic, and extreme weather events such as droughts, wildfires, floods and powerful storms are more commonplace.