Sentences with phrase «extreme weather is having»

It's a foregone conclusion that these severe storms will be more frequent, and we've also — there are number of ABA entities, I am on the — I am the Board of Governors liaison to the Section on Environment, Energy and Regulatory, which is, they even have a climate change committee that is looking at the various impact that this extreme weather is having upon business and upon law firms.

In related news, the New York Times has an interesting and scary article today on the effect extreme weather is having on our nation's infrastructure.

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But research has shown Guam is among the top five most vulnerable US military installations worldwide due to coastal erosion, extreme weather and rising sea levels linked to climate change.

«We have constructed really strong buildings (with hurricane blinds) that should be able to handle extreme weather pretty well,» he wrote.

More customers than ever before are shopping online, and they have a tendency to do even more online purchasing during extreme weather events, such as blizzards or flooding, says Sarah Quinlan, senior vice president of market insights for MasterCard International.

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.

No single weather event — even an extreme one — can be «caused» by climate change, as Vox's David Roberts has explained in detail.

There's research saying abnormal weather — it doesn't even have to be extreme — can disrupt the operations and financials for 70 % of businesses worldwide.

The insurance industry has been pricing extreme weather - related risks for many years.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also chair of Christian Aid, said: «This year we have seen extreme weather displacing millions of people in South Asia and bringing death and destruction in the Caribbean and the United States.

They * knew * exceptions would be made only for weather or other extreme events.

In the face of all the extreme weather we've been getting, and all the supporting science for man - caused climate change, she claims climate change is a hoax.

There's been plenty of talk over the past month or so about the impact that the extreme weather events north of the border will have on food and grocery prices, vegetables and bananas especially.

With my extreme aversion to the cold weather and almost complete disinterest in all winter sports, I would have a tough time proving that I am, in fact, Canadian.

After weeks where every part of the country seems to have been tossed about with one type of extreme weather or another, it dawned on me that I should focus on building experiences that I could control.

This winter has been exceptionally cold and snowy, with weather extremes everywhere it seems.

«The rising costs of energy, human - induced environment and land degradation, water scarcity, and extreme weather events all present challenges, some of which have been on the agenda for decades, others of which are new,» said Task Force co-Chair Dan Glickman.

But if the weather is extreme, per babys.reviews, don't do this because he has a sensitive skin.

The big post 9/11 fear was that Indian Point would be targeted by terrorists, but the new post-Sandy fear is that extreme weather could also cause problems.

I am pleased to have Mr. Gennaro join our team at DEC where he will bring his many years of environmental experience to help protect and prepare New York City for extreme weather.

The recent extreme weather events have highlighted how everyone relies on or uses the UK's transport network daily and it is fundamental to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the community.

The commission said the high water levels are due to «extreme wet weather» and would've occurred even if Plan 2014 wasn't enacted.

He said recent extreme weather like the floods in Gloucestershire had demonstrated the need to ensure back - up systems were «similarly proofed against extreme weather events».

While Cuomo has received some praise for being willing to increase state investments in changes to protect residents against extreme weather, Hawkins says those funds will be wasted if the state fails to take action to halt climate change.

With chaos continuing at Heathrow and snowy conditions warned in much of the country, Phillip Hammond told MPs that the road and rail networks had responded as well as could be expected to the extreme weather.

«We have challenges that the environment is bringing us with extreme weather, which is now undeniable.

«Given that the leading cause of power outages is extreme weather — which is exacerbated by climate change — the Trump administration's head - in - the - sand approach would actually undermine grid resiliency and reliability while promoting climate change and its catastrophic impacts,» he said.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

In addition to what is now called extreme weather and the new normal, I'm sad to say that in many ways we have another new normal to confront and that is the widening threat of terrorism.

Those storms are what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called the new normal, extreme weather events that can have a devastating and long - lasting impact on the region.

«As catastrophic and extreme weather has become more routine, this facility is no longer viable in its current location,» Howard Glaser, Cuomo's state operations director, wrote in a memo to the Federal Emergency Management Agency late last week.

Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate change's impacts on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.

As worldwide temperatures rise and the earth sees extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter, a team of researchers with the University of Florida and Kansas State University have found that that there is potential for insects - and possibly other animals - to acclimate and rapidly evolve in the face of this current climate change.

They also have good traction and will help keep you safe and on your feet when the weather conditions are a little extreme.

In fact, one symptom of a changing climate could be more varied or more extreme weather — but a couple of heavy snows wouldn't prove that either.

They have shown that there is substantial genetic variation in nature for both long - term seasonal acclimation and short - term acclimation associated with rapid extreme weather events.

The pressure system has been strengthening since the mid-20th century, making the weather patterns in each destination more extreme.

Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.

It's a subject that has not gotten much attention, even as more research focuses on how to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and how to make farming more resilient to the impacts of extreme weather.

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

Some researchers have suggested that climate change, which has resulted in a rapidly warming Arctic, is leading to jet stream kinks that keep extreme weather in place, although that hypothesis is still being debated (ClimateWire, April 3).

This is the second time the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has collected information on the previous year's weather extremes and tried to tease out the role of climate change in those events.

El Niño has been implicated in a host of extreme weather events across the globe.

«Of course, weather is naturally chaotic, and extremes are a normal part of our highly variable UK climate, but globally there has recently been an increase in the incidence of high temperature and heavy precipitation extremes.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

Global temperatures have increased, extreme weather events are more common, and species are fleeing their habitats.

«Testing these contrasting hypotheses was an opportunity to not only help people understand and plan for diversity changes after extreme weather events, but also to provide important data that would move the field of ecology forward.»

But this is the first time that any study has found that a weather event was so extreme that it was outside the bounds of natural variability — let alone three such events, Herring said.

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.

As climate change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.