Sentences with phrase «extreme weather issues»

And, as a corollary to this, Republican Party climate denial continues apace (with serious impact on U.S. government (at Federal, State, and Local levels) even as a growing share of the American public links extreme weather issues with climate disruption.

Not exact matches

The issues that have dominated news cycles in recent weeks — North Korea, along with extreme weather in the southern United States — should not obscure the robust underlying fundamentals of the US economy, in our view.

East Syracuse - based Pyramid Network Services, the general contractor for the Mesonet Initiative, a $ 23.6 million UAlbany project supported by Cuomo to enable better planning for extreme weather events, is one of the nearly two - dozen companies mentioned in the federal subpoena issued to the Cuomo administration in late April.

«Once again, extreme weather came to New York and once again New Yorkers came together to help our neighbors in their time of need,» Cuomo said in a press release, (issued smack in the middle of the regional economic development council awards ceremony).

That attitude changed in October 2016, when the outgoing Obama administration issued an executive order aimed at preparing the country for extreme space weather.

Many of the other 24 studies in the new issue found a strong likelihood of human influence on extreme weather events, but stopped short of saying they were completely out of the realm of natural variability.

For the last six years, BAMS has published a December issue containing research on extreme weather events from the previous year that seeks to disentangle the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability.

The algae grow quickly, tolerate extreme weather conditions and do not pose the same issues as biofuel crops that are grown both for fuel and food.

Plus, you can dig into a Classics issue on extreme weather, which includes 24 articles on weather — hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes — some dating back to 1880!

Remaining issues include mechanisms for transparency that would ensure nations live up to their commitments, how much money will be available to help struggling nations adapt to climate change or deal with loss and damage from extreme weather, and whether commitments will be revisited and made more ambitious in the future.

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for economic stability.

Amplification of existing health threats: The effects of extreme heat and heat waves, projected worsening air pollution and asthma, extreme rainfall and flooding, and displacement and injuries associated with extreme weather events, fueled by climate change, are already substantial public health issues.

Climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves, air quality, and extreme weather and climate events.

Bee decline, wildlife decline, environmental issues and extreme weather conditions are all included.

They cite issues such as this year's extreme winter weather and a continued influx of new technologies.

Whether during the warm summer months or cold winter nights, pet lovers can follow basic guidelines and look out for certain issues during extreme weather conditions.

What isn't acceptable is to directly link extreme weather events to global warming, as that opens up some financial liability issues that end up on the doorstep of the fossil fuel industry.

The one criticism I would level, echoing to some extent what Martin and Mike have said, is that it is a bit heavy on weather anecdotes (this record broken here; that record there), which draws attention away from the central issue of the statistics of extremes.

@zebra I think the extreme weather factor is all about the increasing lower - tropospheric water vapor content, which plays out in storms as a latent heat issue.

While many of his colleagues are (appropriately) quick to point out hype from those aiming to undermine public confidence in climate science, Schmidt has been unafraid also to note that reality on important issues — from tipping points to extreme weather — is not always convenient for greenhouse campaigners.

Additionally, the publication aims to highlight the full range climate - related health issues and risks (i.e. nutrition, NCDs, air pollution, allergens, infectious diseases, water and sanitation, extreme temperatures and weather, etc.) where health decision - making can benefit from climate and weather knowledge at historic, immediate, seasonal, or long - term time scales.

There are experts, however, including in the Government of Nepal, who will tell you that the problem was a weather - related issue (extreme cold) that affected OPV maize as well as hybrid.

The U.S. DoD is specifically confronting the issue of regional vulnerabilities and security implications to extreme weather events and climate change, in terms of food, water and energy security, and the impacts of disruptions or longer term decreases in per capita availability.

According to a warning issued by scientists, humanity is now facing an ever - increasing threat of unpredictable and extreme weather.

For example, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated how vulnerable these populations were to extreme weather events because many low - income and of - color New Orleans residents were killed, injured, or had difficulty evacuating and recovering from the storm.239, 240 Other climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves and air quality.241, 235,242,234

Climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves, air quality, and extreme weather and climate events.

With extreme weather on the rise, climate change is increasingly becoming a human health issue to which policymakers need to pay attention if they aren't already.

The «silver lining» of the extreme weather we've been seeing, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres suggested Wednesday, is that climate change is now becoming too real to ignore: «It's unfortunate that we have to have these weather events,» she told the Guardian, but they're also a reminder that «solving climate change, addressing climate change in a timely way, is not a partisan issue.»

This technical document contributes to frame the challenge of dealing with extreme weather and climate events as an issue in decision - making under uncertainty, analyzing response in the context of risk management.

This document contributes to frame the challenge of dealing with extreme weather and climate events as an issue in decision - making under uncertainty, analyzing response in the context of risk management.

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

«We have always known that extreme weather causes crop production losses,» said senior author Navin Ramankutty of UBC's Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability.

Plan B thoughtfully examines the critical global issues of our time: fresh water scarcity, soil depletion, deforestation; desertification; fisheries collapse; habitat destruction; species extinction; extreme weather; global warming, energy policy, and human population growth.

The SREX approaches the topic by assessing the scientific literature on issues that range from the relationship between climate change and extreme weather and climate events («climate extremes») to the [continue reading...]

U.S. policy seems to largely stem from the political football that we have allowed the issue to become, where a vocal minority contradicts global scientific and political consensus, and flat - out ignores the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

It is even connected to the «Arctic Amplification Fuels NH mid-latitude extreme weather events» issue.

Following Twemoran advice, I wrote to all London MEP (8 representatives) a little more than 2 weeks ago, summarizing the impact of the Arctic amplification (on permafrost, methane hydrate and Greenland ice sheet) and the impact on NH climate with the slowing down of the jet stream and more extreme weather (+ further down the line potential issue on food security) I also attached the «Weird winter mad March Part 2» video with extract of numerous scientists of which Jeff Masters and J. Francis to illustrate the impact on NH climate.

Extreme weather causes crop production losses, but until now, scientists «did not know exactly how much global production was lost to extreme weather events and how they varied by different regions of the world,» said Navin Ramankutty, a professor of global food security and sustainability at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study authors.

One way that the press could make this issue much more accessible to the public is to mention the connection between global warming and increasingly extreme weather events.

For instance, in 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special report studying links between climate change and extreme weather, titled «Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaption».

Policy options for energy and reducing vulnerability to extreme weather events should arguably still be on the table whether or not AGW remains as a political issue.

The World Meteorological Organization also issued a statement on the impact of climate change on extreme weather events like hurricane Harvey: [72]

As the world wobbles The issue of increased damage from extreme weather driven disasters as a result of climate change is attracts the same polemic that the gallery previously observed about climate change and global warming.

Watch the global warming issue zooming by in a superficial manner and all the horrific claims — increasingly extreme weather events, imperiled polar bear populations, skeptics who are paid to lie about the truth of all of this — sound like they are true.

Today, the urgency of the issue — where decades of inaction by world leaders has combined with steadily increasing extreme weather to produce an obvious threat to humanity — is undeniable.

Probably most interesting of all is that long range forecasters are issuing catastrophic warnings (they are quite extreme) but the UK Met says that's «irresponsible», and that trying to predict the weather that far in advance is «crystal ball» gazing.

In our view, this type of deals only serves as a band - aid on a very serious issue because they can not prevent Haiti from being hit by climate change influenced weather events such as extreme floods or severe hurricanes.

Of course, when it comes to extreme weather events, the nature vs nurture debate on their origins have become as politicized as the issue of climate change itself.

But scientific consensus breaks down when it comes to the issue of whether Arctic warming is altering weather patterns in the northern midlatitudes, stacking the deck in favor of extreme weather events.