Sentences with phrase «frequent heatwaves»

Under the highest impact scenario, no city is immune from stronger and more frequent heatwaves by the end of the century, the researchers found.

Heat cost Australia nearly A$ 7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.

The report — Off the Charts: Extreme Australian Summer Heat — warns of more extreme bushfires and hotter, longer, bigger and more frequent heatwaves, due to climate change.

Professor Will Steffen from the Climate Council Of Australia said the «abnormal April» records highlights the impact climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever before.

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A study published by the Climate Council of Australia in 2014 found that heatwaves in Australia are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent.

As a consequence, deserts will spread and lethal heatwaves will become more frequent.

For example, the kind of heatwaves we've seen in Europe — we had one in 2003 and 2006 — just how severe will they become and how frequent might they become?

«Climate change projections suggest that European summer heatwaves will become more frequent and severe during this century, consistent with the observed trends of past decades.»

Frequent and intense heatwaves threaten our workers» health and damage our infrastructure.

A review paper published in 2016 assessed evidence from multiple studies and found that heatwaves are becoming more intense and more frequent for the majority of Australia.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

On top of another record hot year globally, and as heatwaves become more frequent and intense, our cities are making us even hotter.

Some of them are fairly obvious — if you warm up the planet, you're going to have more frequent and intense heatwaves.

In - fact, numerous recent studies are calling for such heatwaves to be 4 times as frequent and as much as 5 - 10 degrees F. hotter by 2050 no matter what we do on carbon emissions before then.

So we know we get heatwaves now, we know we get flooding events, but will they become more frequent, or will they become less frequent, but more intense?

In fact, in mountainous areas around the world, landslide activity is on the up; a reaction both to a general ramping - up of global temperatures and to the increasingly frequent summer heatwaves.»

> Heatwaves have become more frequent in summer, while there are now fewer frosts and winter cold spells.

With either 1.5 ℃ or 2 ℃ global warming, we will see more extremely hot summers across Australia, more frequent marine heatwaves of the kind that can cause bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, and probably more frequent drought conditions too.

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

And there's a high risk that heatwaves, fires, cyclones, heavy rainfall and drought will become even more intense and frequent in the coming decades.

As natural catastrophes, such as floods, heatwaves or wildfires, are expected to become more frequent and intense in the future, mitigating their impacts through working partnerships and the dissemination of risk information is vital.

The kind of things I'm referring to are more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding and droughts, sea level rise and its associated impacts, glacier melt, damage to sensitive ecosystems, increased tropical cyclone activity, increased hurricane strength, ocean acidification.

A new study coming out the City College of New York shows that continued warming temperatures, combined with the well - known (and growing) urban heat island effect, means more frequent and more intense heatwaves are in store for New York.

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In terms of severe weather, spring and summer are also the most significant periods of the year for Australia with increased risk for bushfire, tropical cyclones, heatwaves, and more frequent severe thunderstorms.

Extreme weather events such as those which have recently devastated parts of Australia — heatwaves, floods and fires - are predicted to become more frequent and severe.

A new report by the Norwegian met office shows that precipitation in Europe has become more severe and more frequent, that winter rainfall has decreased over southern Europe and the Middle East and that there are more and longer heatwaves and fewer extremely cold days and nights.

«For example, one can quantify the odds of a typical heatwave happening and estimate how much a warmer world would load the dice toward the more frequent occurrence of a similar event.

Climate change is making hot days and heatwaves more frequent and more severe.