Sentences with phrase «extreme weather scientists»

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One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

Climate scientists have long warned that rising emissions of greenhouse gases by humanity may cause weather extremes, and not just heat waves.

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

It's challenging to make direct comparisons between extreme rainfall events since their weather systems (e.g., hurricanes, thunderstorms) behave differently, so scientists draw on several benchmarks depending on the situation.

As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria plowed through unusually warm oceans this summer, each one broke records, startling even the scientists who study extreme weather.

El Niño will be substantial, warn Australian scientists: Australian scientists on Tuesday forecast a «substantial» El Niño weather phenomenon for 2015, potentially spelling deadly and costly climate extremes, after officially declaring its onset in the tropical Pacific...

Ruling out natural variability, scientists say several of 2016's extreme weather events wouldn't have happened without human - caused climate change.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

These extreme weather patterns make this area an ideal location for climate scientists to study the delicate interconnected web of the global climate system.

But now, for the first time, climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether climate change played a role.

CLIMATE scientists tend to shy away from assigning blame for extreme weather events like the fictional heatwave described above.

But scientists agree that climate change will up the ante considerably by bringing more extreme weather gyrations — searing drought one year, followed by torrential storms that can wash away cracked soil and destroy crops rather than quench their thirst.

Scientists have long warned that climate change will have serious consequences: big sea - level rises, floods, droughts, more extreme weather, extinctions and so on.

NEW ORLEANS — For the first time, scientists have definitively linked human - caused climate change to extreme weather events.

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.

A group of spider monkeys and their scientist observers confront extreme weather and its fiery aftermath in a Central American rainforest

Every day, NOAA scientists employ an array of technology to predict and prepare for extreme weather

Martin Hoerling, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory who researches the connections between climate change and weather extremes, said a link between a warmer Arctic and the recent cold is unlikely.

Climate scientists believe that the frequency and severity of extreme - weather events will increase as temperatures continue to rise.

While most scientists don't dispute the link between global warming and extreme weather, the once skeptical public is now starting to come around — especially following 2011, when floods, droughts, heat waves and tornadoes took a heavy toll on the U.S..

«In the past, many scientists have been cautious of attributing specific extreme weather events to climate change.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

The challenge lies in the fact that natural variability is always a part of any extreme weather event, so when scientists do attribution exercises, they are trying to discern the human signal out of the noise.

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.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

Moreover, the impacts of that warming, including sea level rise, drought, floods and other extreme weather, could hit earlier and harder than many models project, said study co-author John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

Climate scientist Christopher Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather events.

Indeed, many climate scientists caution that extreme weather events resulting from climate change is the new normal for farmers in North America and elsewhere, requiring novel agricultural strategies to prevent crop losses.

Climate scientists study extremes in order to better understand the climate system, with the ultimate goal of generating more accurate weather forecasts, he said.

On the other, scientists can not find a human fingerprint in many extreme weather events with great confidence using the techniques they have at hand.

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.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.

Very recently scientists have begun to more directly link climate change patterns to extreme weather events, which they have typically been reluctant to do.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Such trends mean scientists and policymakers will have to factor in how synthetic climate forcers other than greenhouse gases will change temperature, rainfall and weather extremes.

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.

Scientists, engineers and others who study extreme weather have proposed numerous ways to reduce the suffering and damage inflicted by hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, deluges, droughts and such.

But such efforts are useful in communicating the changing risks of extreme weather to the public, say the scientists, who are working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program.

Scientists are reluctant to directly link climate change with extreme weather events such as storms and drought, saying these fluctuate according to atmospheric conditions, but green groups link the two in their calls for action.

Because it plays a key role in weather extremes, climate scientists are striving to understand its changing dynamics.

Individual weather extremes can't be attributed to global warming, scientists always say.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are applying atmospheric science research capabilities to improve our understanding of long - term weather trends and better predict extreme weather events like these — and it all starts with studying clouds.

Scientists have long suspected that global warming can cause extreme weather events.

Scientists are still looking into how climate change might affect other types of extreme weather, such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

Scientists keep a close eye on its status as events can cause devastating extreme weather around the world.

This understanding will help scientists improve global climate projections and predictions of extreme weather and climate change.

The scientists used standard climate computer models to come up with the extreme future weather conditions.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences some of the most extreme weather patterns on Earth, making it an ideal location for Rochester climate scientists to student the complex web of global climate patterns.