Sentences with phrase «extreme weather disturbances»
When fossil fuels are the number one source of human - caused GHG emissions, creating a planetary crisis of global warming that is already causing devastating extreme weather disturbances, we can't ignore it.»
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And that is going to mean more extreme weather disturbances.
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According to the Rutgers - Camden researcher, the study supports the hypothesis that organisms living in high - stress urban medians possess adaptions to disturbance, making them more resilient to the effects of extreme weather events than organisms living in relatively low - stress city parks.
Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.
«For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems,» the updated 2016 letter says.
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.
For the United States, observations clearly show a declining frequency of extreme weather events, that sea level changes are indistinguishable from geological uplift or sinking processes, and decreased risk of regional water scarcity (due to more frequent winter polar vortices replenishing the water table), heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems.
For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems.