Sentences with phrase «finds weather extremes»

«Study finds weather extremes harmful to grasslands: Food production may diminish as a result.»

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Since my extreme Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis one year ago, lettuce wraps are one of my go - to low carb hot weather favorites, whether cooking at home or dining out (I usually find them in the appetizer or salad section of restaurant menus).

As worldwide temperatures rise and the earth sees extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter, a team of researchers with the University of Florida and Kansas State University have found that that there is potential for insects - and possibly other animals - to acclimate and rapidly evolve in the face of this current climate change.

Aaron Kennedy, an assistant atmospheric sciences professor, recently encountered an atmosphere unlike anything he normally finds in his field work on the prevalence of extreme weather patterns around the world: the halls of Congress.

«I think in agriculture you're going to find that farmers are more and more aware of extremes in their weather.

While they did not find any conclusive differences between the three years, it is possible that extreme weather events could lead to more dramatic differences between the chemical fingerprints of some annual rings, and the authors conclude that more extensive sampling is required.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

Risky Business based its findings on data from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as peer - reviewed literature on extreme weather impacts on crops, labor productivity and energy system performance.

But this is the first time that any study has found that a weather event was so extreme that it was outside the bounds of natural variability — let alone three such events, Herring said.

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.

«Cold, hot or dry: Persistent weather extremes associated with decreased storm activity: Decrease in storm activity over large parts of the US, Europe, Russia, and China is found to influence weather extremes.»

«What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks.

What this report is saying is that we can attribute an increased magnitude or frequency of some extreme weather events to climate change,» said David Titley, professor of practice in Penn State's Department of Meteorology and founding director of Penn State's Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.

The findings, published in The Lancet, also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells.

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

Abatzoglou said they found abnormal weather and climate conditions were a driving factor in 96 percent of the extreme fires identified.

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.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

The author of the study, Dr Cutler, found that although higher household earnings were negatively associated with perceptions of extreme weather, homeownership was indeed a contributing factor — stating that «homeownership and lower incomes appear to independently increase perceptions.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

Professor Michael Norton, EASAC's Environment Programme Director states, «Our 2013 Extreme Weather Events report — which was based on the findings of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute — has been updated and the latest data supports our original conclusions: there has been and continues to be a significant increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, making climate proofing all the more urgent.

Tell it to the judge Even as enhanced computer modeling and more precise measurement bring control of extreme weather closer, those pushing the envelope find themselves facing the same hurdle as Bernard Vonnegut and his colleagues at General Electric half a century ago: the risk of getting sued.

The findings have important implications for New Orleans and other coastal cities that rely on coastal wetlands to serve as buffer from destructive extreme weather events.

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.

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.

His comments came after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found last week that within two or three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2 degrees, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and extreme weather.

A new report released Friday by the National Academy of Sciences has found that such extreme event attribution studies can be done reliably for certain types of weather extremes, including heavy precipitation.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that the weather patterns known as El Niño and La Niña could lead to at least a doubling of extreme floods and droughts in California later this century.

In the second real - time extreme weather attribution study in the context of the World Weather Attribution project the team found a 5 - 80 % increase in the likelihood of heavy precipitation like those associated with storm Desmond to occur due to anthropogenic climate change.

Climate change could mean England is in for more such extreme rainfall events because of increasing moisture in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric weather patterns, a new study detailed online Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds.

Due to the harsh weather extremes in the Sonoran Desert the nopal cactus fruit found in this region of North America contain the highest concentration of betalains of any plant in the world.

An NPR analysis of grants awarded by the National Science Foundation found a decreasing number with this phrase and a slight increase in the term «extreme weather.»

I'm cheering for you finding your cheer in eternally grey and rainy weather (reminds me a little of a more extreme Daly City!)

Weather and Climate Here you'll find a collection of information about climate and weather including record high temperatures, recorded weather extremes, and tornado facts.

Yukon Gear was founded in Washington state — where extreme weather and off - roading are commonplace — and manufactures performance products that were built to hold up in the most severe environments.

Yukon Gear was founded in Washington state — where extreme weather and off - roading are commonplace — and manufactures performance products that were built to perform and built to last in harsh environments.

She must have found some sort of shelter because she survived the extremes of the weather and was not seen or heard for long periods of time between occasional sightings.

The new findings are part of a surge of research suggesting that communities need to revisit their vulnerability to extreme weather in a warming world.

You'll find calm, warm - weather options (particularly in North Island), as well as white - knuckle paddles in more extreme locations such as Fiordland.

Storms, extreme weather, and gasses will push you to find caves and caverns to explore while being shielded from the extreme environments, just don't stray too far from your ship just in case.

They found that extreme temperatures, whether hot or cold, were not nearly as dangerous as «milder but not optimal weather.»

Combined with extreme weather events the inability to find sufficient cheap fuel to mitigate climate change (e.g., moving whole cities from coastal areas) will relegate whole populations to hunger and starvation.

When it comes to extreme weather, we always take the opportunity to point back to the last definitive international scientific report on extreme weather and climate change, which found strong historic links for heat waves, coastal flooding and changes in precipitation along with weaker links for tornadoes and hurricanes.

The also found that extreme weather events, like a very hot summer in 2010 and a very cold winter in 2011, were correlated with increased miscarriages of male fetuses, while female fetuses seemed to be able to withstand the disruption.

This finding is of direct importance for studies on impacts from extreme weather and for disaster policy.

They found that only two tenths of a percent of the world was hit by extreme weather in the former years, but that the number jumped to between 4 and 13 percent in the latter span.

In Chapter 2 of the most recent IPCC report (AR5, 2013), for example, we find these (7) conclusions affirming the the lack of clear observational evidence linking extreme weather events to human activity.

Perhaps no paper found in a reputable journal (American Meteorological Society's Weather, Climate, and Society) has been as openly critical of the narrative «science» of extreme weather human attribution as the one just published by University of Manchester's Janković and Shultz (2017).

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