Sentences with phrase «extreme heat waves occur»

The city is marked by endless sunshine, sea breezes, and balmy evenings — but it's also the season when hotel rates spike, extreme heat waves occur, and many small - business owners take weeks off.

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Then, they calculated the total exposure to extreme heat in «person - days,» by multiplying the number of heat waves - days when temperatures reach at least 95 degrees - by the number of people who are projected to live in the areas where extreme heat is occurring.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

Above normal temperatures were, however, anticipated in climate models, though not the extreme heat wave that occurred and which was driven primarily by the absence of rain.

-- I have listed the «catastrophic results» that are projected to occur, according to IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM, pp. 8 and 13: temperature increase of up to 6.4 °C, heat waves, floods, droughts, increased intense tropical cyclones, extreme high sea level, as well as some of the secondary impacts, which IPCC projects in WG2, WG3: crop failures, disappearing glaciers now supplying drinking water for millions, spread of vector diseases, etc..

Also, changes in the frequency of other, smaller scale weather extremes, notably droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and extreme rainfall, although they have not been specifically assessed here, can occur.

Like Hansen et al., Donat and Alexander (2012) found that global warming has made extreme heat waves more likely to occur.

Scientists project that extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, blizzards and rainstorms will continue to occur more often and with greater intensity due to global warming, according to Climate Central.

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.

By comparing the recent shift toward extreme high summer temperatures with that data, he said his group was able to demonstrate that the record - breaking 2011 Texas heat wave wouldn't have occurred without global warming.

Climate models have also successfully predicted many climatic events we are already experiencing — extreme events, like 100 - year floods occurring twice within 15 years, or the extended heat waves that have killed hundreds of thousands of people and uncountable wild animals and plants.