Sentences with phrase «flooding events in future»

Pall et al appear to make a stronger claim than that, because of AGW, flood events in the future will be more frequent, or more severe when they occur.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, in the specific context of Matthew 24:36 - 44, Jesus equates those who are «taken» in this future event with the people who were taken away by the waters of the flood (Matthew 24:39).

About $ 1 million will be used to restore infrastructure damaged by last year's flooding, while the rest will be used to find projects to help prevent further damage in the event of future flooding.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said it was wrong to «attribute any one event to climate change» but warned that there would be «more flooding, more storms» in the future

Olson says Dogtooth Bend farmers and landowners, members and staff of the Len Small Levee and Drainage District, community and state - level leaders, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have some difficult decisions ahead in repairing the current landscape and preparing for future flood events — decisions that affect future land uses, resource allocations, and the livelihoods of the people of southern Illinois.

It's difficult to ascertain the impact of rising temperatures on those connected events, but climate change in the future is expected to have its fingerprints on dueling droughts and floods.

They argue that while large public investments in dams and flood defences, for example, must account for the possibilities of how weather might change in the future, this should not prevent short - term thinking to address more immediate vulnerability to inevitable high - impact weather events.

We need to be able to assess what sorts of floods can possibly occur in the future, even if we haven't observed or recorded similar events.

But we do know, says Levermann, that extreme rainfall events will increase in the future, and every projection shows much great land flooding in some regions.

The guide includes the following: • an explanation of the types of flood risk • how to establish whether a property is at risk from flooding and how to protect it • information about the ongoing flood recovery operation • an emergency pull - out guide providing practical advice in the event of future floods

New website provides one - stop shop for flood maps, data on sea level and temperature changes, and other information to aid in planning for future extreme weather events

«The topic is extremely timely as current and future climate change would mean more changes in extreme events such as droughts and floods,» Yang said.

It is completely logical for policy makers today to support the building of infrastructure (dams, sewers, electrical distribution systems, etc.) that will provide for adequate fresh water retention and for flood control in the event that future weather conditions are somewhat more severe that are being experienced today.

Australia's adviser to government on climate change Ross Garnaut was on radio today blaming the recent floods and the cyclone on Global Warming, and said that these types of events would be more frequent and stronger in the future and that evidence of this was being seen in the Atlantic.

Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.

After a flood had hit, a recurrent case of flood management was to reinforce and rise flood protections up to a level that would safely confine the peak flow of the river in case a similar event occurred again in the future (see e.g., Fenn et al. 2014).

I would however point out that an instance of North Dakota flooding or freezing is not «global» nor is it indicative of a trend — it is regional and is a single event, and let's please not be myopic here and muddle the issues, as it's even worse «science» to take a single isolated event in time and geography and then attempt to extrapolate it out across the entire globe and into future decades than to depict an out - of - context «hockey stick» of historic data as is being pointed out here.

A recent report by NOAA describes a future where coastal flooding will be a weekly event in some coastal parts of the country.

The IPCC agrees in there SREX report on severe weather published on March 28th 2012 that there is no observable trend to date for Floods, Droughts, Hurricanes, or Tornadoes world wide although they do predict a trend in some of these events for the future.

Focusing on decimal degree C. changes in global temperature is the tantamount to focusing attention away from the coming climate changes that will cause floods, droughts, dust storms, high winds and other extreme weather events and the difficulty of predicting where, when, and which kinds of weather related problems people in the near future will be experiencing.

72 per cent of respondents agreed that the floods showed the kind of events we can expect in future with climate change.

PCIC's Trevor Murdock delivered a talk about the 200 - year flooding event in Bella Coola, discussing the results of climate downscaling approaches and future projections, which call for greater changes in more extreme events and wetter winters.

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The people of Masig understand that much of the island (and in particular the area around the village) is low, and that flooding events may become more regular and more significant in the future due to climate change.