Sentences with phrase «extreme heat causing»

The extreme heat caused dozens of cancelled afternoon flights in Phoenix.

The NYC Climate Justice Agenda bases their claim that extreme heat causes more deaths than cold based on an EPA reference.

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When it does, extreme heat and pressure caused by plowing through the air at more than 15,000 mph will destroy the roughly 9.4 - ton vessel.

Climate scientists have long warned that rising emissions of greenhouse gases by humanity may cause weather extremes, and not just heat waves.

After a day where sweltering temperatures caused one player to faint and another to vomit on the court, Andy Murray criticized the Australian Open's «extreme heat policy,» voicing concern over the safety of players exposed to 108 - degree heat Tuesday in Melbourne.

The extreme heat could cause the plastics to leach chemicals, making them unsafe for your baby.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

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.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

The protolith is subjected to heat and extreme pressure causing profound physical and / or chemical change.

Those heat extremes, the hottest in the country's observational record, were likely caused by man - made climate change, according to a new study accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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.

The committee found that scientists can now confidently attribute some heat waves and cold events, and to a lesser degree droughts and extreme rainfall, to human - caused climate change.

«It's often assumed that extreme weather causes the majority of deaths, with most previous research focusing on the effects of extreme heat waves,» says lead author Dr Antonio Gasparrini from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK.

Blistering heat waves recorded around the globe in 2013 were linked to human - caused global warming, according to a broad survey of studies on extreme weather events published yesterday.

You can add «sun kinks,» or railways that buckle in extreme heat, causing derailments, to the list of things that are already taking a toll on U.S. transportation, a problem that figures to grow significantly as the U.S. warms.

In the center of the image, the purple indicates X-rays caused by extreme heating.

Some of the risks of heat - related sickness and death have diminished in recent decades, possibly due to better forecasting, heat - health early warning systems, and / or increased access to air conditioning for the U.S. population.182, 183 However, extreme heat events remain a cause of preventable death nationwide.

This material burns in the dwarf's outer regions, causing its core to heat up to extreme temperatures.

In a second study, researchers in Maryland linked extreme heat to increases in asthma — a condition that causes trouble breathing.

A collapse in the AMOC could also mean there would be less heat reaching western Europe that could cause the region to plunge into severe winters, the kind of scenario similar to that depicted, albeit in extreme fashion, in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.

The researchers found that over a 15 - day period, the water temperatures were most extreme when the low tide period drifted to align with maximum sun heat during noon, and these conditions caused the warming of the shallow water on the reefs.

In previous experiments, exposing a virus to extreme heat or proteins caused the shape of the entire capsid shell to change.

Global warming of ∼ 0.6 °C since the 1970s (Fig. 3) has already caused a notable increase in the occurrence of extreme summer heat [46].

It seems that extreme weather including torrential rains and blazing heat is becoming the new norm, and now new research indicates that more than half of hot extremes are caused by climate change.

Cooling to the scalp, its application works the nutrients from the inside out, locking in moisture, whilst also preventing UV damage and any further drying caused by extreme weather conditions and modern heating systems.

One of the symptoms that may cause great discomfort during Menopause is heat flushes — it is a feeling of extreme heat, mostly in upper parts of the body, accompanied by drenching sweat.

Take care to avoid extreme humidity or heat as this may cause tarnishing.

All in all, it's a nice product... just don't keep it out in extreme heat as that could cause it to become brittle and break.

The extreme heat of the exhaust causes any type of protection which would normally be on them to burn off, which allows the cast iron to show more rust.

If I heated any gas up wouldn't they no also cause extreme pressure inside the combustion chamber?

Given the extreme heat produced by the renesis engine and the instant death an overheat can cause to the RX - 8, a lot of people have a lot of mods to prevent overheating.

The job of these liners is to keep all the road dirt picked up by the wheels from entering the engine compartment but, in extreme cases, the heat from the engine can cause these liners to deform and move closer to the engine, causing the adhesive to catch fire.

The outstanding heat resistance of the brake discs also protects the materials from deformation caused by extreme stress while the aluminium brake disc chamber provides reliable protection against corrosion — resulting in the highest possible levels of driving dynamics, safety and operational life.

It is important to get it fixed, as extreme heat or excessive cold weather could cause it to shatter.

Failure to do so in extreme heat could cause heat stroke.

The extreme heat can cause blisters on her pads.

Hamsters are quite sensitive to extreme heat, so you don't want to them to be too close to bright sunlight, as it can cause them discomfort or illness.

In case of an emergency, it's important to be able to identify the symptoms of heat stress caused by exposure to extreme temperatures.

The French Bulldog's flat face and snub nose cause the dog to be very sensitive to temperature extremes — and what's moderate to a person may be extreme heat to a Frenchie.

Animals cool themselves by panting, which becomes inefficient in extreme heat, poor ventilation, or when dehydration causes a lack of moisture on the tongue.

Confinement of animal in a motor vehicle causing exposure to extreme heat or cold; protection of animal by animal control or law enforcement officer or fire fighter; penalties

Because these events were rare before human GHG emissions forced more energy (heat) into the atmosphere, it is reasonable to conclude that AGW is responsible for (is the cause of) the most extreme events.

In the case of this summer, to make it familiar, the NE North American Coast and most of Canada is cooler by extensive periods of cloud coverage, cooling caused by this region clashes with the US South extreme heat, given less bouts of clouds up North, the North American warming record would have been amazingly strong, but permanent cloud episodes over one region or another travel, never last forever, as such not causing a permanent shift in the temperature record (unless the clouds cover or not wide swats of the Polar regions).

A couple of years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established a «Climate Scene Investigation» strike team tasked with quickly assessing the causes of extreme events — mega downpours, off - the - chart heat waves and the like.

A tornado is an extreme event, but one whose causes, sensitivity to change and impacts have nothing to do with those related to an ice storm, or a heat wave or cold air outbreak or a drought.

For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.