Sentences with phrase «extreme warming event»

If anything, it is this one characteristic which appears to suggest that the extreme warming event is a normal weather event.

For more than 10 weeks beginning in January, sea temperatures were between 2 °C and 4 °C warmer than usual along a 2000 - kilometre stretch of coast — the area's most extreme warming event since records began.

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.

To appreciate this one only has to look at figure 4, where the slowly shifting mean (global warming) causes a dramatic increase in extreme warm events (heatwaves).

«But it suggests that we may be underestimating the tendency for short - term extreme warming events in the Arctic.

Local extreme warm events are part of it, obviously.

Not exact matches

While much of the emphasis regarding climate change is on overall warming, increased frequency of extreme weather events is also a critical concern.

Global warming played a role in half of 2012's litany of extreme weather events, from heat waves to storm surges

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

This month the IPCC releases its second report, which focuses on global warming's impacts, ranging from intensifying droughts to heavier downpours and other extreme weather events.

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.

«However, organisms do not feel means; they feel the day - to - day variability and extreme events, such as the frequency of warmer - than - normal days.»

«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.

So several different factors, each made more likely by global warming, combined to produce this very extreme event?

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

And if such an «off the chart» event can occur when the world has warmed by less than 1 °C, what sort of extreme events will occur by 2050, when the planet could be as much as 3 °C hotter?

Yet Matz's study suggests that, extreme events aside, the corals show signs of adapting quickly enough to keep pace with warming waters — at least for now.

Holdren emphasized, however, that improving national preparedness for extreme - weather events, flooding, and warmer temperatures would be a «win - win» for everyone as well as the economy, and therefore should receive bipartisan support.

The IPCC report does suggest that extreme weather events should be expected as the world warms but the prediction is couched in cautious terms and the risk is assessed as «medium» confidence.

Although scientists hesitate to draw a direct relationship between weather and climate, observation of weather patterns shows a definite correlation between extreme weather events and a warming climate.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

The 1980s was easily the warmest decade on record and exhibited an unprecedented number of extreme climatic events, such as storms and droughts.

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

And a large majority of Americans believe that global warming made several high profile extreme weather events worse, including record high summer temperatures nationwide, droughts in Texas and Oklahoma, catastrophic Mississippi River flooding, Hurricane Irene and an unusually warm winter.

«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.

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.

Warmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurriWarmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurriwarmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurricanes.

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

The contiguous United States has warmed considerably since 1938, and there's no question that climate change was at play this time, says National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Martin Hoerling, who examines links between extreme weather events and climate.

It is probable that climate warming will cause increases in the intensity of some extreme events.

Dredging and sediment among the «stressors» Climate change is another threat, with warming oceans likely to lead to more extreme coral bleaching events, when corals lose the symbiotic algae that lend them their color.

Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate could boost the number of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.

Large areas of the world have already experienced an increase in extreme events, they found — and these risks will only worsen as the climate continues to warm.

It is based on simple rules of thumb that guarantee a role for man - made global warming in the extreme event, said Dáithí Stone, an attribution scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

«Understanding whether the probability of those high - impact events has changed can help us to plan for future extreme events, and to value the costs and benefits of avoiding future global warming.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

But decision makers need to appreciate the influence of global warming on extreme climate and weather events.

By reducing the vulnerability of the developing world to these extreme events, we'll have gone a long way to helping them adapt to the more serious things that might come about from global warming.

But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

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.»

What's more, O'Gorman found that there's a narrow daily temperature range, just below the freezing point, in which extreme snow events tend to occur — a sweet spot that does not change with global warming.

He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.

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.

Global warming could impact the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), altering the cycles of El Niño and La Niña events that bring extreme drought and flooding to Australia and many other Pacific - rim countries.

«We are now able to connect the dots when it comes to human - caused global warming and an array of extreme recent weather events,» said Mann.

The WWA analysis factored in both types of changes, examining how warming changed the odds of such an extreme event using three independent methods.

Just days later, a real - time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent — a small, but clear, effect, the scientists say.

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