Sentences with phrase «few weather scientists»
It also appears that few weather scientists were willing to live way out in the sticks just so the stations they tended would never suffer from urbanization.
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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.
As the world has warmed over the past few decades, climate scientists have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potentially catastrophic impacts that warming could have on the world's weather.
And yes, things have heated up in the last few years, probably due to an unusually intense El Nino, but that is the sort of thing climate scientists used to refer to as «weather» as opposed to «climate,» though now they seem to be changing their tune.
«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.»
... few scientists agree with the idea that the recent spate of potent hurricanes, European heat waves, African drought and other weather extremes are, in essence, our fault.
Only a few months ago researchers warned that climate change could put Ethiopia's harvests at risk and last year scientists warned that extreme weather conditions and high temperatures could threaten 50 % of Brazil's crop.
Scientists do not have a good sense of the current trends, because until a few years ago, data came from only a few ground - based weather stations.
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.»
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.
Global warming was once an uncommon term used by a few scientists who were growing concerned over the effects of decades of pollution on long - term weather patterns.
He ominously warns: «Climate scientists are used to seeing the range of weather extremes stretched by global warming, but few episodes appear as remarkable as this week's unusual heat over the Arctic.»
«A few years ago, talking about weather and climate change in the same breath was a cardinal sin for scientists.
A few days later, as Hurricane Irma ramped up to record - setting intensity, Rush Limbaugh fueled dangerous weather conspiracy theories, claiming that federal scientists exaggerate hurricane threats, and that media and businesses profit from hyped - up hurricane coverage.
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.
Whilst a few simpletons may be swayed by your argument, I predict that this latest example of extreme variablity in our weather patterns, even predicted by some scientists as a consequence of global warming, will not shift the near unanimous body of opinion of the world's scientists that global warming is real and that it is here now.
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.
Take what you have learned from the scientists and imagine the world in a few decades from now, a few degrees warmer, with all the extreme weather, desertification, ocean acidification, mass migration, conflict over energy supplies, fresh water and so on, that have already begun, and that will only get worse the more we destabilize our climate system with greenhouse gases.