Sentences with phrase «few extreme events»

As a quote attributed to mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot put it, «Even though economics is a very old subject, it has not truly come to grips with the main difficulty, which is the inordinate practical importance of a few extreme events.»

«But we didn't know if it was all happening in a few extreme events — colliding galaxies and so on.»

Not exact matches

Cuomo said his decision to exercise extreme caution with this event was informed by a snowstorm in Buffalo a few months ago that, despite a relatively modest forecast, ended up dumping 7 feet of snow on the city and stranding people on roads for hours.

However these scenarios are at the extreme outer edges of probability, and, in the absence of some extraordinary event, Labour will almost certainly once again win significantly fewer seats than the Conservatives in 2020, whatever the party's economic policies and whoever is leader.

Dry places are likely to get drier; rainfall is likely to arrive in fewer but more concentrated episodes; and extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones are likely to increase in intensity.

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.

But few of these studies have taken extreme events like the 1995 drought into account.

In the normal distribution of a bell curve, you never get such extremes, but the pattern underlying the power curve enables a few rare events of extraordinary magnitude.

Even under a more moderate scenario where greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2040, 100 - year extreme sea levels could increase by 57 centimeters, or nearly 2 feet, on average, by the end of the century, with these events occurring every few years, according to study's authors.

As always, few were ready for an extreme rainfall event in the dry prairie.

Contrary to the sedentary or relatively less physically active population, too few calories often tends to be more of a problem than too many calories when training for endurance events or well above - average or extreme levels of physical activity into our life.

Lavish gowns initially appeared to be slightly lacking from this year's event, but the past week included quite a few extreme fashions worthy of the French Riviera.

Lavish gowns appeared to be slightly lacking from this year's event, but the past week included quite a few extreme fashions worthy of the French Riviera.

20 dogs on a new list everyday at the moment, no rescue can rescue 20 dogs a day get real and start more adoption events and network and transport animals to no kill shelters if they are serious about saving animals but they are not from the extreme amount euthanised in the last few days, earlier this month and at Christmas!!!

The workshops and events may have fewer people than expected or, in extreme cases, may be cancelled.

I asked him to elaborate and provide a few examples in which people described unfounded links between extreme events and global warming, and also whether he thought scientists and scientific institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were beyond reproach.

All recent «extreme events» on investigation appear not to be extreme when compared to known events in the past few hundred years before AGW.

«There is general evidence to suggest that climate change will cause more extreme weather events and few scientists agree with the idea that it can be proved that individual [extreme weather events] are not being caused by us.»

Take a look at a few of the figures illustrating the intensity and impacts of 2012's extreme weather and climate events:

In a poll released last November by the Public Religion Research Institute, fewer than half of them were willing to link extreme weather events to climate change, whereas more than three - quarters thought these events were signs of the «end times» predicted in the Bible.

In the next few decades, longer growing seasons and rising carbon dioxide levels will increase yields of some crops, though those benefits will be progressively offset by extreme weather events.

A few days ago, NASA published a paper showing that extreme temperature events are currently likely to occur with ten year frequency.

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.

MSNBC was generally graded down by UCS because of a few mild overstatements linking some specific extreme weather events and climate change; in other words for going the other way than the other networks.

Do you recall that just a few months ago they said that it was going to be extreme weather events would be caused by global warming.

Pielke is right that an increase in the number of valuable properties in high - risk areas is overwhelmingly the primary cause of increased financial losses from extreme weather events over the past few decades.

If scientists can demonstrate to policymakers that we would see significantly fewer and less intense extreme weather events by putting the brakes on our emissions then it might lead to the necessary action to protect society and the environment from the worst outcomes of climate change.»

Ensemble modelling of storm surges and tidal levels in shelf seas, particularly for the Baltic and southern North Sea, indicate fewer but more extreme surge events under some SRES emissions scenarios (Hulme et al., 2002; Meier et al., 2004; Lowe and Gregory, 2005).

When what previoisly were «once in a century» extreme events begin to happen every few years, the extreme becomes the norm and such is the nature of regime change or dragon Kings.

The first paper comes from a group of scientists who have worked to rapidly analyze a number of extreme weather events over the past few years, including flooding in Europe and Louisiana last year.

Whether warming or cooling there will be extreme events, but the important thing is to focus on the averages over a reasonable period rather than a few weeks for one (admittedly very large) region.

Anticipating extreme weather events by a week or two, or even a few days, could make an enormous difference in the developing world.

As well as droughts, floods and other extreme events, the next few years are also likely to be the hottest on record, scientists say.

IMO he does a disservice to the cause when CC gets tagged along with every natural occurring extreme weather event because when it doesn't end up being extreme, eyeballs start rolling back in a few heads.

Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet... In fact, as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme storms in all seasons, capable of causing greater impacts on society... If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it's too warm for it to snow heavily.

Now you might think that, by my own explanation above, fewer extreme weather events supports the original theory of AGW.

So, the original theory of AGW would have produced warmer air coming from the polar regions which would have created a smaller temperature difference between systems, and thus would have created fewer extreme weather events, not more of them.

Every day an extreme record is broken in many places and in part that is a consequence of the short history of weather recording and the sheer number of locations where humans are now available to observe weather events that would have gone unnoticed a few decades ago.

And the effects of just a few of the inevitable extreme weather events that are increasing in frequency could easily match decades of SRL.

That literature — coupled with the astonishing number of off - the - charts extreme weather events of the past few years — is why more and more climate scientists and meteorologists and others are making the connection.

First, because extreme climate phenomena represent rare events and modern climate records made by instruments are short, the modern record may capture only a few instances of these extreme events.

A number of modelling studies have also projected a general tendency for more intense but fewer storms outside the tropics, with a tendency towards more extreme wind events and higher ocean waves in several regions in association with those deepened cyclones.

Ecosystems absorb about 11 billion fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide every year because of extreme climate events than they would if the extreme weather didn't occur, according to the study.

Global warming (literally speaking) means fewer and less severe, extreme weather events.

Using complex computer models, the team concluded that on average, vegetation absorbs 11 billion fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide than it would in a climate that doesn't experience extreme weather events.

The overwhelming impression I formed from reading the accounts of the vagaries of the climate of yesteryear was that they sounded exactly like today, with perhaps greater variability, extreme events and colder bits thrown in, although after the last few bitter winters the striking similarities with the past have become even closer.

Thus, the gradual northward and upward movement of the species» range since 1904 is likely due to the effects of a few extreme weather events on population extinction rates.»

Both these countries experienced an upsurge in extreme climate events in the past few years, and one would think that would have serious impact on peoples» attitudes.

Over the past few years, climatologists have increasingly found connections between extreme weather events and climate change.

Though the report still says, rightly, that any specific weather event can not be solely tied to climate change — be it the totally unseasonable snowfall that hit the Northeast this past weekend, the devastating flooding in Thailand, etc. — but that scientists now are 99 % certain that climate change will cause more extreme heat waves, fewer extreme spells of cold weather, and more intense downpours.