Sentences with phrase «for extreme climate change»

Marjory is way ahead of us on that, and I hope to get her back to talk about ways to prepare your food production for extreme climate change.

Instead of including projections for extreme climate changes as a result of continued human emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from our production of energy, the high - end projections would have featured relatively modest changes and the low - end projections would have been completely unremarkable.

Not exact matches

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

Climate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toClimate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toclimate events like hurricanes or tornados.

In the face of all the extreme weather we've been getting, and all the supporting science for man - caused climate change, she claims climate change is a hoax.

Weathering the Storm: With California stuck in extreme drought and last year's barley crop damaged by heavy rain, climate change is posing serious problems for the brewing industry.

The modern, domesticated chickpea has an extreme lack of genetic diversity, leaving it vulnerable to climate change, prompting scientists to seek out wild varieties for crossbreeding programmes.

Plus, keep an eye out for programming that highlights how local families can prepare for extreme weather caused by climate change.

Environment secretary faces calls for his resignation, as Green campaigners warn that a climate change sceptic should not be in post during extreme weather events

While Cuomo has received some praise for being willing to increase state investments in changes to protect residents against extreme weather, Hawkins says those funds will be wasted if the state fails to take action to halt climate change.

In this new climate, where politicians are either calling for direct interference in corporate affairs, or running campaigns that put extreme public pressure on businesses to change their operations, businesses will increasingly have to find ways to defend themselves.

The environment secretary faced calls for his resignation today, as Green campaigners warned that a climate change sceptic should not be left at Cabinet level during extreme weather conditions.

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey claimed «ignorant» climate change sceptic Conservatives are contributing to «extreme weather events» in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier.

Marcia Bystryn, President of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said, «The most important lesson New York can learn from Superstorm Sandy is that we must do a better job planning for a changing climate and extreme weather events.

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.

«This new way of viewing the problem could be a game changer in the attribution of extreme events by providing a framework to quantify the portion of the damage that can be attributed to climate change — even for events that themselves can not be directly attributed to climate change using traditional methods,» continues Hammerling.

Dr. Huybers» research involves the causes of glacial cycles, evaluation of modern climate extremes, and the implications of climate change for food production.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more extreme weather events.

While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.

There's a lot of posturing and that's pretty common for international negotiations on climate change; everybody like [s] to beat their chests and you know stake extreme positions.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

«It seems that the sun's quiescence was responsible for the most extreme phases of the Little Ice Age, implying that solar variability sometimes plays a significant role in climate change.

But now, for the first time, climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether climate change played a role.

Assessing climate change impacts on extreme weather events: the case for an alternative (Bayesian) approach.

For the last six years, BAMS has published a December issue containing research on extreme weather events from the previous year that seeks to disentangle the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condiChange, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condichange in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

NEW ORLEANS — For the first time, scientists have definitively linked human - caused climate change to extreme weather events.

Just as Australian farmers have looked to Israel on how to grow crops in a desert, Australia's struggle with extreme heat and drought could serve as a case study for other nations facing similar situations under climate change.

Those heat extremes, the hottest in the country's observational record, were likely caused by man - made climate change, according to a new study accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

If it turns out climate change is making extreme weather events more likely, it is important to help locals build resilience, for instance by building irrigation systems to cope with drought, says Grainne Moloney, a chief technical adviser with FAO Somalia, a division of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

The reality (at least according to current science) is that the effects of climate change on extremes won't be detected for many decades.

«We know climate change is creating more days of extreme heat, putting more people at risk for death in the coming decades,» says first author Elisaveta P. Petkova, project director at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Each nation has employed its own methodology for maintenance and repairs, but new, daunting challenges created by climate change — extreme heat, extreme cold, and severe flooding — require yet more rigorous solutions.

It speaks eloquently of stewardship of God's creation and care for the poor, those already affected by the exacerbating impacts of climate change on droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather.

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

CSW and others are calling for the creation of a new cabinet - level agency called the National Climate Service to oversee both climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather Climate Service to oversee both climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather events.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

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 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 Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.

Storms also a question mark The attribution studies also looked into storms and rainfall extremes, but the complexity of atmospheric processes during such events made it difficult for scientists to decipher the role of climate change.

These two effects, the authors wrote, «appear to counteract each other, contributing no appreciable long - term change in the risk for dry climate extremes over California since the late 19th century.»

Playing the climate blame game The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science.

«We recommend for the folks that are talking with farmers one on one, it's probably a more effective communication strategy to talk about more extreme weather rather than saying, «Let's take care of anthropogenic climate change,»» said J. Gordon Arbuckle, a sociology professor with Iowa State University who helps conduct the survey.

In addition to showing how plants tolerate extreme conditions, which we're likely to see more of as the climate changes, the discovery also holds promise for practical applications involving novel light - reflecting surfaces.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

Carolyn Gramling writes about studies that, for the first time, blame specific extreme weather events on human - caused climate change — certain to be a hot topic in 2018.

Climate scientist Christopher Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather Climate scientist Christopher Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather events.

Indeed, many climate scientists caution that extreme weather events resulting from climate change is the new normal for farmers in North America and elsewhere, requiring novel agricultural strategies to prevent crop losses.

The extreme warmth is likely to slow or prevent the formation of Arctic sea ice, which has been shrinking for decades due to climate change.

This approach should be useful to managers who must decide how much water to release for agricultural use or to conserve behind dams, especially as climate change is expected to bring about more frequent and extreme floods and droughts.