Sentences with phrase «frequent warm events»

This study indicates that coral reefs in locations with more frequent warm events may be more resilient to future warming, and protection measures may be more effective in these regions.

Not exact matches

It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no one weather event can be tied to warming temperatures.

Furthermore there are signs, for parts of Europe, that global warming is making rare events more frequent.

Our research indicates they will be more frequent under climate warming,» said Dr. Yang Gao, a post-doctoral researcher and atmospheric scientist at PNNL, «causing increased flooding events.»

Many theorize that a warmer world would have more frequent and stronger «extreme» weather events, but they are not referring to temperature (instead: preciptation, tornado, hurricane, etc).

«As the seas warm because of our effect on the climate, bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef and other areas within the Coral Sea are likely to become more frequent and more devastating,» the team of Australian university scientists wrote Thursday in The Conversation, announcing the results of the analysis.

Completely independently of this oceanographic data, a simple correlation analysis (Foster and Rahmstorf ERL 2011) showed that the flatter warming trend of the last 10 years was mostly a result of natural variability, namely the recently more frequent appearance of cold La Niña events in the tropical Pacific and a small contribution from decreasing solar activity.

Many theorize that a warmer world would have more frequent and stronger «extreme» weather events, but they are not referring to temperature (instead: preciptation, tornado, hurricane, etc).

«Extreme events Global warming of 2C vs 1.5 C is likely to lead to more frequent and more intense hot extremes in most land regions as well as to longer warm spells.

In Attribution of Extreme Climate Events (henceforth Trenberth 2015) Trenberth suggests extreme storms are more frequent due to global warming.

«We expect there will be more gas built up due to longer and warmer fall seasons and more frequent pulse events due to more rain on ice in the spring,» Raz - Yaseef said.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

Guilderson and Schrag (1998) said: «Several studies have noted that the pattern of El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability changed in 1976, with warm (El Niño) events becoming more frequent and more intense.

Scientists have already linked global warming to an increase in extreme weather events, meaning systems like this hurricane season's superstorms — Harvey, Maria, and Irma — are going to get more severe and more frequent.

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.

While a warming climate is influencing extreme events, by making them stronger or more frequent, it can't be said to have «caused» an event on its own.

Over the past three decades, most natural disasters (90 %) have been caused by climate - related events, they say, and extreme climatic events are likely to become more frequent because of global warming.

These spikey events seem more frequent, particularly in the past few decades as exponential changes in global warming finally have reached a tipping point.

When that Arctic forcing is SST related, it would be lagged and could be out of phase meaning a global cooling or pause would produce stronger Arctic Winter Warming and stronger more frequent SSW events.

In fact it proves AGW since more frequent, more extreme events like this volcano are EXACTLY is predicted by global warming computer models.

While it is very difficult to attribute individual weather events to global warming, we do know that climate change will «load the dice» and result in more frequent extreme weather events.

At 1.5 ℃ and 2 ℃ of global warming these events would probably be more frequent than they are in today's world.

A 2015 study by Francis and Stephen Vavrus, «Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming» concluded that global warming was driving an increase in the most extreme events because of «more frequent high - amplitude (wavy) jet - stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns.»

With temperature records being smashed month after month, year after year, it's likely that human - caused global warming is making extreme heat events more frequent.

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

While the superstorm is an extremely rare event that can not be directly blamed on climate change, our warming oceans are creating the latent potential for more frequent and more powerful storms.

The risk of disruptive events will also increase in the future as droughts, heat waves, more intense storms, and increasingly severe wildfires become more frequent due to global warming — increasing the need for resilient, clean technologies.

22 Agriculture Agriculture would be most severely impacted by global warming if extreme weather events, such as drought, became more frequent.

Certain consequences of global warming are now inevitable, including sea level rise, more frequent and severe heat waves, growing wildfire risks, and an increase in extreme weather events.

While it can not be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.

Also a brand new study of storm surges since 1923 finds «that Katrina - magnitude events have been twice as frequent in warm years compared with cold years» — so more severe surges are on the way.

But as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical global and regional trends of a climatic shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears of more frequent / larger weather disasters as a result of CO2 or global / regional «warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.

Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age.

«After New Orleans, it's becoming clearer that we are experiencing more frequent and more powerful weather events that pose huge challenges for the insurance industry,» said Tim Wagner, director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance, noting that warmer - than - usual water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico may have added to Hurricane Katrina's strength.

Climate change contributes to increased flooding because warmer air holds more water, leading to stronger and more frequent precipitation events.

Claims that specific fires (and forest and wildfires overall) are due to human greenhouse gases have routinely been made since the 1988 testimony of NASA's top climate scientist, James Hansen, predicted that rapid and accelerating warming from GHG emissions would cause more severe and frequent weather events.

One of the most well - known effects of global warming is an intensification of the water cycle, with higher air temperatures leading to increased evaporation from the seas and soils, and more atmospheric water vapor contributing to more frequent heavy precipitation events.

If nothing is done to stop global warming, progress in almost all areas of human endeavor will gradually slow over the next fifty years because of more frequent, and more scary, climatic events — and worse will follow.

«While a longer time range is required to establish whether an individual event is attributable to climate change, the sequence of current events matches IPCC projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming.»

This so - called «meta - analysis» allows scientists to draw statistical significance from the combined studies even when a single study might not be considered conclusive — in much the same sense that no single weather event can be said to result from climate change but the statistical trend indicates that more extreme weather events will become more frequent in a warming world.

Concerning the impact on extreme temperature events (winter cold spells, summer heat waves), these dynamical changes appear to be secondary compared to the long - term warming trend that results in fewer and less intense winter cold spells, and more frequent and intense summer heat waves in mid-latitudes.

BUT the record shows us that extreme weather events have NOT become more frequent or intense as our planet has warmed, so there is pretty good evidence that these events do not become more frequent or intense as a result of global warming.

Even IPCC is now conceding that there is no evidence that severe weather events have become more frequent or intense as a result of global warming.

«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.

Extended drought, more frequent and severe weather events, heat waves, warming and acidifying ocean waters, catastrophic wildfires, and rising sea levels all have compounding effects on people's health and well - being.