Sentences with phrase «extreme weather disasters»

Re-insurer Munich Re is claiming that North America is a particular target of climate change related extreme weather disasters.

Whether in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world, low - income people are often most vulnerable to extreme weather disasters linked to our warming climate.

We believe that more accurate and reliable weather predictions will be of tremendous benefit to society, in everything from people being able to make better day - to - day plans to improved agricultural planning to being better able to predict and cope with extreme weather disasters.

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, head of WWF's global climate and energy programme, and COP20 President, said: «In a year marked by extreme weather disasters and potentially the first increase in carbon emissions in four years, the paradox between what we are doing and need to be delivering is clear: countries must act with greater climate ambition, and soon, to put us on a path to a 1.5 °C future.

More extreme weather disasters, higher healthcare bills, and an uncertain future for our children, to name only a few costs.

• 250 million people will be forced to leave their homes due to extreme weather disasters • 30 million people will go hungry as agriculture suffers • 1 - 3 billion people will suffer acute water shortages

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Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

There are the obvious ways: building and constantly improving the infrastructure necessary to predict hurricanes and other extreme weather, collecting images of disasters to guide emergency response workers, and tracking sea level changes around the world that affect coastlines and the Navy.

These companies have been paying close attention to the variables that influence extreme weather and have long sounded the alarm on climate change and disasters.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

These variables can include regulatory changes, extreme weather or natural disasters, changes in management — the list goes on.

In fact, earth is so perfect for human existence that microorganisms, natural disasters, and extreme weather kill millions.

Our one day shipping commitment excludes weekends, holidays, closings due to extreme weather conditions, disasters, special order items, and out of stock items.

Changes in extreme weather will require governments to change how they cope with natural disasters, a new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns

It's not flooding or other weather disasters that cause people to move but rather extreme high temperatures, at least in Pakistan

Offsetting disaster assistance with the conservation dollars that are absolutely essential for farmers, ranchers, and rural communities to withstand these extreme weather events is reckless.

«Offsetting disaster assistance with the conservation dollars that are absolutely essential for farmers, ranchers, and rural communities to withstand these extreme weather events is reckless and runs counter to the very real need for hurricane recovery support,» said Alyssa Charney, a policy specialist at the NSAC.

It may soon be followed, however, by yet more flooding in coming years: climate change may increase the likelihood of extreme weather, such as excessive summer rains, that give rise to such natural disasters.

According to a poll conducted by researchers at Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, four out of five Americans reported personally experiencing one or more types of extreme weather or a natural disaster in 2011, while more than a third were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these events.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

To forecasters trying to anticipate extreme weather and avert disasters, the 2004 hurricane season looked like nature thumbing her nose at us.

In an effort to understand how extreme weather causes structural damage, four Japanese organisations — the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), the Building Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University — have been developing a tornado simulator.

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.»

OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.

Nicola Jones catches up with Julia Slingo, chief scientist at the UK Met Office in Exeter, Devon, about how natural disasters and extreme weather events over the past 12 months have changed what Britain's national weather centre does.

According to ClimateWise, a global network of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive year on record due to natural disasters and extreme weather events all over the globe, but over the past decade only 30 % of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap of $ 1.7 trillion.

An extreme weather event becomes a disaster when society and / or ecosystems are unable to cope with it effectively.

Outdated knowledge systems have exacerbated recent disasters and contributed to growing financial losses from extreme weather.

2.4 by 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality

The Secretary shall determine and provide to transportation planners appropriate data on the impact on infrastructure of natural disasters and a higher frequency of extreme weather.

I agree to indemnify and hold KHS harmless for any damages caused during the transportation of the animal, or for any damages caused by any unforeseeable events including fire, vandalism, burglary, extreme weather, natural disasters or acts of God.

These include war, or threat of war, riots, civil strife, terrorism, contamination, extreme or unusual weather conditions, industrial disputes, changes to sports itineraries, natural and nuclear disasters, fire, flight cancellations or rescheduling by airlines or any similar event beyond our control.

Important as satellites focused on earth are vital to monitoring climate change and weather disasters, crucial for the ever increasing levels of extreme weather experienced around the world.

In modern societies, many individuals appear to be detached from the weather, yet our dependence on it is obvious when we consider severe storms, extreme temperatures, drought and other natural disasters.

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

This situation speaks of the opportunity this disaster has created for governments and citizens, from the level of local zoning to that of federal flood insurance, to reexamine norms in light of both the implicit threat posed by extreme weather and the amplified risks coming with a warming climate and rising seas.

In the more adverse «disaster» scenario — which entails vast deforestation, dramatic biodiversity declines and increasing extreme weather — the global index falls by 15 percent, with the deepest losses felt in poor regions.

This finding is of direct importance for studies on impacts from extreme weather and for disaster policy.

Until recently, climate and security experts have focused their research mostly on the humanitarian and disaster - relief implications of increasing extreme weather.

In addition, extreme weather events may lead to increased demands for defense support to civil authorities for humanitarian assistance or disaster response both within the United States and overseas.

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VERGE Interconnect also demonstrates how cities, communities and companies can foster resilience to extreme weather, earthquakes and other disasters by creating distributed, local energy systems independent from the grid — and doing so in a way that reduces or even eliminates greenhouse gas emissions.

Mental illness is one of the major causes of suffering in the United States, and extreme weather events can affect mental health in several ways.113, 223,114,115,116 First, following disasters, mental health problems increase, both among people with no history of mental illness, and those at risk — a phenomenon known as «common reactions to abnormal events.»

In 2011, 11 of the 14 U.S. weather - related disasters with damages of more than $ 1 billion affected the Midwest.115 Several types of extreme weather events have already increased in frequency and / or intensity due to climate change, and further increases are projected (Ch.

If, like me, you tend to get glued to your TV or computer screen when extreme weather strikes, then you know that 2011 was a very active year with respect to natural disasters.

While global warming can magnify the impacts of extreme weather events, a wide variety of non-environmental factors determine whether people choose to move and where they choose to go following a disaster.

The global cost of natural disasters is getting higher as the number of extreme weather events increases due to climate change.

One of the key effects of global warming and climate change is an increase in extreme weather events and natural disasters.