Sentences with phrase «extreme events like»

Those figures don't include damages from the increased threat of extreme events like hurricanes because there the certainty is a bit lower.

However, extreme events like Katrina slow this process down.

«If, as many believe, a warming climate causes a rise in the intensity of extreme events like Hurricane Katrina, we're likely to see an increase in tree mortality, resulting in an elevated release of carbon by impacted forest ecosystems.»

It does not take systematic account of «direct impacts on the environment and human health» — things such as mortality from extreme events like heat waves or tsunamis, for instance.

Scientists cite several statistical indicators that suggest the number of extreme events like heat waves and floods is rising.

Impacts on agriculture and ecosystems may themselves stem from extreme events like heat waves or droughts, from other forms of climate variability, or from changes in mean climate conditions like generally higher temperatures.

In fact it proves AGW since more frequent, more extreme events like this volcano are EXACTLY is predicted by global warming computer models.

But as parts of Queensland hit the road to recovery, it is worth thinking about what makes a community resilient to extreme events like floods and cyclones.

Global warming makes extreme events like Sandy more probable.

Such would have been the case especially during extreme events like the exceptionally cold Arctic winter of 2010 - 2011.

As Judith observed in # 16, the emotional impact of extreme events like Katrina has been sometimes perceived as a good occasion for incriminating GHGs and changing our mind about them.

But climate change is almost certain to lead to more frequent and / or more intense extreme events like fires, floods, and storms.

Researchers have been trying for some time to determine how much of a connection exists between climate change and extreme events like downpours.

But few of these studies have taken extreme events like the 1995 drought into account.

It also allows people to report flooding during extreme events like the fall king tides, said Susan Jacobson, a journalism professor at FIU who helped develop the program.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

These are events that appear again and even more intensively in the middle of the troubled climate of the greenhouse effect, an extreme event like this is one instance where a dramatic climate change can seem real».

Not exact matches

One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

Similarly, the Northeast is expected to experience more extreme weather events, like hot summers and, in the short run, super cold winters.

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

When investors have to argue among themselves about which news event is causing them to worry, the news is probably just providing day - to - day occasions for investors to act on more general concerns, like extreme valuation.

Climate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or tornados.

Organizations like Nuru Intl., which seeks to help end extreme poverty, hold campus events where students walk with a five - gallon bucket filled with water for a certain amount of time or distance.

I find that so many people go to extremes after events like holidays and commit themselves to restrictive diets or resolve to follow some type of extreme diet plan.

Because climate change is linked to an increase in severe weather events — like hurricanes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures — poorer countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to handle them leave millions at risk.

Safety policies should cover company procedures for extreme weather events like hurricanes, blizzards and other situations that could potentially be hazardous for employees.

He said recent extreme weather like the floods in Gloucestershire had demonstrated the need to ensure back - up systems were «similarly proofed against extreme weather events».

«What we're really being hit with is these very extreme weather events, like the hurricane last year,» said Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who said so - called 20 - year storms now seem to happen «pretty much happen every year.»

Climatic variability like precipitation changes or increase in extreme events such as storms and tropical cyclones is known to significantly modify the Earth's surface.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

CLIMATE scientists tend to shy away from assigning blame for extreme weather events like the fictional heatwave described above.

The researchers also looked at other extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur more often as global temperatures increased.

Those more extreme weather events are expected to jeopardize crops like bananas and sugar cane.

The authors suggest that developing greater resilience to extreme weather events must be given greater priority if the socioeconomic impact of storms, like those that have ravaged Britain this winter, is to be reduced.

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.

Playing the climate blame game The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science.

The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.

Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»

«In the future, new, giant radio telescopes like FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) and SKA (Square Kilometre Array) will allow us to make even more detailed observations of these extreme and exciting events,» concludes Jun Yang.

Events like record - setting heat, extreme rainfall and drought will happen more frequently around the world even if global climate targets are met, new research suggests.

And when you get a polar vortex disruption, warm air from the lower latitudes rushes in to the Arctic, and you can get extreme warm events like we saw in February.

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.

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.

Scientists suspect these bursts occur during extreme celestial events like neutron star collisions, but the jury is still out pending further GLAST observations.

With rising global temperatures, the 2014 National Climate Assessment predicts that many communities will see more frequent extreme precipitation events like the one that hit Baton Rouge, La., last year.

«We found that most black swan events were caused by things like extreme climate or disease, and often an unexpected combination of factors,» Anderson says.

To predict the effects of these extreme events, scientists need to better understand how forests work normally — and for ecologists like Stephenson, that means figuring out why trees die.

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.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.