Sentences with phrase «extreme heat events»

The independently - funded group used new modelling to look at the odds of extreme heat events occurring, with and without man - made emissions.

Due to global warming, the most extreme heat events now impact a global area 10 times greater than in the period 1951 - 1980.

The virtually certain impacts include increasing temperatures, more frequent extreme heat events, changes in the distribution of rainfall, rising seas, and the oceans becoming more acidic.

An increase in extreme heat events around the globe is observed and expected to be one of the first apparent symptoms of global warming.

Due to global warming, the most extreme heat events now impact a global area 10 times greater than before.

The nearby rural areas experienced no change over the same period, remaining at five extreme heat event days per year.

The vast majority of those studies have shown that climate change is driving extreme heat events around the globe.

Other studies have shown that climate change increases the odds of extreme heat events and may make them warmer and longer lasting.

And global warming has led to a dramatic surge in the frequency of the most extreme heat events.

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

Based on our research, we collaborated with Ahmedabad's city agencies to develop South Asia's first Heat Action Plan in 2013, a comprehensive early - warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events.

Claudia Tebaldi, visiting scientist at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research, and Michael Wehner, senior staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, report in Climatic Change journal that stringent emissions reductions could reduce the risk of such extreme heat events.

It is also widely agreed that the world has seen a spate of extreme heat events in recent years, such as the 2011 Texas heat wave and drought and the deadly 2010 heat wave in Russia, and that global warming made some of these events more likely to occur and more severe.

On average, 675 deaths from extreme heat events occur each year in the United States.

Researchers looked at heat waves and longer - lasting extreme heat events in Korea, Australia, Argentina, Europe and warm ocean temperatures in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic.

Beyond the long - term record, the past five years have been punctuated by extreme heat events around the globe, the most recent being an

If temperatures rise globally by 2 C (3.6 F)- a goal that has been deemed utterly inadequate - we expect twice as many extreme heat events worldwide than we would with a 1.5 C increase.

«If temperatures rise globally by 2 °C, we would expect twice as many extreme heat events worldwide than we would with a 1.5 % increase,» Dr Fischer says.

An as yet unpublished paper by NASA climatologist James Hansen and others makes the case that recent extreme heat events, such as Russia's 2010 deadly heatwave and last year's extreme drought in Texas, are directly linked to our warming planet.

All eight papers dealing with extreme heat events in this year ’s

With temperature records being smashed month after month, year after year, it's likely that human - caused global warming is making extreme heat events more frequent.

But, even so, by 2075, an estimated 18 % of the Earth's surface could still experience those once - rare extreme heat events every year.

A new study for the first time found links between the rapid loss of snow and sea ice cover in the Arctic and a recent spate of exceptional extreme heat events in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Recent multi-month extreme heat events in the US are unprecedented since the start of reliable instrumental records in 1895.

However, it does not impact the main result of Hansen et al., that global warming has caused extreme heat events to occur more frequently and to be more intense on average.

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System names extreme heat events as one of the leading weather - related causes of death in the United States.

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

AHMEDABAD (March 11, 2014)-- Building off of last year's successful launch of South Asia's first - ever early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events, the Indian city of Ahmedabad, along with the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar and partners, is developing the 2014 Heat Action Plan to continue its pioneering efforts.

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

Beyond the long - term record, the past five years have been punctuated by extreme heat events around the globe, the most recent being an extreme heat wave in India this summer that left 2,500 dead.

Masters who calls the heatwave «one of the most extreme heat events in U.S. history,» recently commented, «this is not the atmosphere I grew up with.»

Evidence indicates that the human influence on climate has already roughly doubled the probability of extreme heat events such as the record - breaking summer heat experienced in 2011 in Texas and Oklahoma.

«Rather striking» climate link to Australian heat waves Because temperature extremes are easier to decipher, scientists are fairly confident that global warming increased the severity and likelihood of extreme heat events in 2013 in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China and Europe.

They defined any day with a maximum temperature at or above 35 ˚C as an «extreme heat event» and made projections of the likely number of people exposed to extreme heat between 2041 and 2070.

A new analysis shows that there is «virtually no explanation other than climate change» for extreme heat events, including last year's scorching weather in Texas and Oklahoma

The work «dissects the phenomena better than previous studies,» showing the anatomy and evolution of the extreme heat events, he adds.

Researchers observed a 23 % increase in risk of asthma hospitalizations when there was an extreme heat event during summer months.

The researchers suggest that extreme heat events during summer months may lead to higher concentration of harmful air pollutants such as ozone, which is known to exacerbate asthma.

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).

They found the number of «extreme heat event» days in the city had risen threefold from about four in 1980 to nearly 12 in 2013.

«This level of detail in real time can provide specific information to agencies tasked with protecting our citizenry during extreme heat events,» Snyder said.