Sentences with phrase «extremes than cold»

The broader Hemispheric and regional picture shows that warm events occurring during the two most recent winters were much more extreme than the cold outbreaks and are consistent with a long ‐ term and accelerating warming trend.

Not exact matches

This lightweight pizza stone from Cuisinart is made from cordierite, a stone - like material that is more resistant to thermal shock than ceramic — it won't crack in extreme heat or cold.

The early explorers charting the Polar Regions were among the first to notice how extreme cold made their journey akin to dragging their sleds across sand rather than gliding over ice.

The study also found that extreme temperatures were responsible for less than 1 % of all deaths, while mildly sub-optimal temperatures accounted for around 7 % of all deaths — with most (6.66 % of all deaths) related to moderate cold.

Moreover, in the extreme cold of the upper troposphere, ozone's radiation - trapping properties are thirty times greater than at ground level, says Colin Johnson at AEA Technology near Oxford.

Winters have been warming more rapidly than summers, and while less extreme cold sounds appealing, the future effects of blistering summer heat are expected to outweigh the benefits of milder winters.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

The extreme weather pattern is causing flooding and colder - than - normal temperatures in the major farming areas of North America: California, Mexico, and Florida.

In women exposed to extreme cold — 14 degrees Fahrenheit or lower — in the month before the test, gestational diabetes was less than 5 percent.

To ensure lasting performance, Renault Sport Technologies» development team has put the new Mégane Renault Sport 250 through its paces in a wide variety of situations, from long - distance circuit runs to extreme cold and heat, covering more than 300,000 km in testing.

Bigger, furrier dogs, like huskies, can fare better in the extreme cold than a Chihuahua might.

I contend that people should not point to the recent extreme warmth as evidence of global warming any more than they should point to the extreme cold of February as proof against.

If extremes in our weather were randomly distributed between heat and cold, that would present a different argument than if they are predominantly high temp extremes.

Even a cursory glance at what we know about the geologic past reveals that this lovely little planet has been through much, MUCH worse than anything we can throw at it; massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes, radical climate shifts to both extremes of hot and cold, and yes, several mass extinctions.

Although temperature in the artic has risen over the decades more than elsewhere, this winter has seen a reversal of that trend, due to extreme cold in the Western part and the Baring Straits.

Once the ice reaches the equator, the equilibrium climate is significantly colder than what would initiate melting at the equator, but if CO2 from geologic emissions build up (they would, but very slowly — geochemical processes provide a negative feedback by changing atmospheric CO2 in response to climate changes, but this is generally very slow, and thus can not prevent faster changes from faster external forcings) enough, it can initiate melting — what happens then is a runaway in the opposite direction (until the ice is completely gone — the extreme warmth and CO2 amount at that point, combined with left - over glacial debris available for chemical weathering, will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, possibly allowing some ice to return).

Warmings are localized; under the laws of physics,; if some part of the planet gets warmer than normal — other part INSTANTLY gets colder than normal — it's called» extreme weather / climate» Yes, climate is the weather; global warmings / global coolings are inside people's heads, not outside.

If it is extreme cold, it is just natural variation in weather masking the 100 % proven rising trend of warming becasue of AGW that is far worse than we ever imagined

However... a recent article in The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2962114-0/abstract) points out that globally there are 20X more deaths from extreme cold than there are from extreme heat.

Daily Mail UK: The bone - chilling cold in the Capital and similar extreme weather events across the country over the past few years are more than just freak happenings.

JA requests «In the past, has not the planet exhibited climate far more extreme (either warmer or colder) than present?

This extended the time of extreme planetary cooling so that in these simulations the Earth remained at least 10 °C colder than normal for a full decade (Fig. 2).

A fan of * MORE * discourse March 22, 2013 at 10:01 am Reply JA requests «In the past, has not the planet exhibited climate far more extreme (either warmer or colder) than present?

In the past, has not the planet exhibited climate far more extreme (either warmer or colder) than present?

«Some reduction in the risk of death related to extreme cold is expected... the reduction in deaths as a result of relatively milder winters attributable to global warming will be substantially less than the increase in deaths due to summertime heat extremes.»

Whether it's a killer winter in South America, increased snow cover globally, record Arctic sea ice recovery, recovering glaciers in the Alps, record high sea ice extent in Antarctica, extreme cold in southeast Europe, or 5 consecutive colder than normal European winters, just to name a few, the ominous signs of global cooling are compounding rapidly.

Despite the extreme cold of the last ice age, the BRT reported «more than 20 so - called Dansgaard - Oeschger oscillations have been documented... each with rapid warming to near inter-glacial temperatures over just a few decades.»

I am calling the article «tranquility, transition and turbulence» as within it we have temperatures warmer than today, colder than today and extremes of weather including prodigious rainfall.

The paradox is that global warming could also increase the intensity of not just hotter - than - usual seasons but also cool or cold episodes that would trigger unusual or extreme weather responses far from the ocean's cool centre.

More than 370,000 people died during the decade as a result of extreme weather and climate conditions — heat, cold, drought, storms and floods, according to data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters.

But, using this newfangled «extreme meme», I'll bet we could fool some of the MSM gullibles into thinking it's getting cooler, because the latter half of the graph has more frequent and deeper cold extrema (blue oval) than the earlier half (red oval).

Yes, in a nutshell, it's warmer today than 25 years ago, but that's to be expected due to the 150 + year natural rebound in temperatures since the extreme cold of the Little Ice Age.

An increase of daily temperature variability is observed during the period 1977 to 2000 due to an increase in warm extremes, rather than a decrease of cold extremes (Klein Tank et al., 2002; Klein Tank and Können, 2003).

He interviews our good friend Gavin Schmidt, and explains how rising greenhouse gases are «loading the climate dice» — changing the relative odds of different extremes, rather than eliminating all cold days entirely.

They are more concerned, rightfully, with energy consumption than with what you face, extreme cold exposure, snow loads and pipes freezing.

However, studies that stratify winters into La Niña, neutral, and El Niño phases have found that precipitation extremes in neutral / La Niña winters respond differently than in El Niño winters, whereas studies that stratify ENSO data into cold / warm conditions have not found evidence for a coherent nonlinear response.

Global warming may also lead to extreme weather other than cold or heat extremes.

As new clean, local, and renewable energy sources come on line over the next 25 years and become more affordable than current PV prices, it is unlikely that the extreme conservation measures taken by Passiv Haus to meet the specific requirements will be considered an optimal deployment of resources for cold climate housing.

When you put 2012's record high temperatures with other signs like the record amount of extreme weather and this year's record loss of Arctic sea ice, or the fact that if you're under age 27, you've never experienced a month that was colder than average, it's hard to ignore the looming threat of climate change.

The most dramatic climate extremes were less associated with prolonged multiyear periods of cold than with year to year temperature changes, or even particularly prominent individual cold spells, and these events were often quite specific to particular seasons.

And each new cold snap has been more extreme than the last, Salawitch points out.

The NYC Climate Justice Agenda bases their claim that extreme heat causes more deaths than cold based on an EPA reference.

Those data that show that the more people died due to extreme heat than other cause, narrowly beating out flash floods, and that more people die from heat than cold - related events.

[Response: Your argument misses the point in three different and important ways, not even considering whether or not the Black Hills data have any general applicability elsewhere, which they may or may not: (1) It ignores the point made in the post about the potential effect of previous, seasonal warming on the magnitude of an extreme event in mid summer to early fall, due to things like (especially) a depletion in soil moisture and consequent accumulation of degree days, (2) it ignores that biological sensitivity is far FAR greater during the warm season than the cold season for a whole number of crucial variables ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to transpiration rates, and (3) it ignores the potential for derivative effects, particularly fire and smoke, in radically increasing the local temperature effects of the heat wave.

Mortality data from 1979 - 2002 death certificate records show twice as many deaths directly from extreme cold than for deaths from extreme heat, 8 times as many deaths as those from floods, and 30 times as many as from hurricanes.

Winters were dramatically warmer than now (which is entirely logical; its extremes of cold that limit most plant and animal distributions) at -11.6 C but with large uncertainty (+ / - 7.1 C) vs. -37.6 C today at Eureka NT; summer was 14.4 + / - 2.0 C vs. 5.7 C today at Eureka, about 10C - 14C warmer in summer.

We understand recycled denim batts to be «free of carcinogens and formaldehyde, and more effective than traditional insulations in resisting extreme cold and in providing superior noise reduction.»

The climate became more extreme during the Younger Dryas in many areas with both hotter summers and colder winters than before the event or even today (Shuman et al., 2002; Grimm and Jacobson, 2004).

The strength and resilience of garden nature and wildlife is often pushed to the limits during winter months in the UK, but this year's cold season proved more extreme than usual, with extended periods of wet weather and low temperatures.