Sentences with phrase «frequent wildfires»

Frequent wildfires and accidents threaten personal property in Texas and can cause tens of thousands of dollars in damage.

«A major concern for this region is how interactions among warming temperatures, permafrost thaw, more frequent wildfires, and changes in stream flow will affect carbon storage and greenhouse gas exchange.»

And climate change will make matters worse: hotter temperatures and longer dry seasons in summer create conditions that can lead to more frequent wildfires.

Today these sites face a perilous and uncertain future in a world of rising sea levels, more frequent wildfires, increased flooding, and other damaging effects of climate change.

They are using the simulation, detailed in a new paper in Royal Society Open Science, to determine how drought, warmer weather, more frequent wildfires and other climate - related changes will affect forests across North America.

A high risk of forest loss is shown for Central America and Amazonia, more frequent wildfire in Amazonia, more runoff in north - western South America, and less runoff in Central America.

Not exact matches

Causes vary: Lightning is a frequent cause of wildfires in remote wilderness areas, but the National Parks Service says that up to 90 percent of wildfires in the United States are caused by people.

to more frequent and «more aggressive» wildfires.

«In the U.S., we're seeing more severe droughts, wildfires, crop losses and more frequent coastal storms with deadly impacts,» Martin added.

California's critical energy and transportation infrastructure faces significant climate related risks over the course of the century, including more frequent and intense wildfires, prolonged drought, and accelerated sea - level rise.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

Smoke from wildfires, which are becoming more frequent and intense in the U.S. West as the climate changes, contains large amounts of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which can have profound impacts on human health.

They believe that across the globe, from California to Australia and from the Mediterranean to South Africa, such wildfires are becoming hotter, more devastating and more frequent.

Public health will suffer as heat waves become more frequent and intense, rising seas inundate coastal cities, extreme storms lead to more deaths and catastrophic wildfires burn more forests and reduce air quality.

Wildfires are larger and more frequent, and warm winters have brought dramatic outbreaks of bark beetles.

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years — a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new research.

Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

Making things worse, wildfires will likely become more frequent and intense in the coming decades as climate change exacerbates drought conditions around the world.

Historical wildfire observations exhibit an abrupt transition in the mid-1980s from a regime of infrequent large wildfires of short (average of 1 week) duration to one with much more frequent and longer burning (5 weeks) fires.

Higher temperatures diminish crop yields, melt the snow / ice reservoirs in the mountains that feed the earth's rivers, cause more - destructive storms, increase the area affected by drought, and cause more frequent and destructive wildfires.

Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

Ignoring a well - documented history of natural climate change, ignoring the ill - advised 20th century policy of fire suppression, and ignoring the increased percentage (~ 80 to 90 %) of fires ignited by humans, Climate Central tried to persuade the public that California fires, (as well as all recent fires) are «part of a dire global warming - fueled trend toward larger, more frequent and intense wildfires.»

More frequent and extensive wildfires.

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent and intense, with serious consequences for human health and well - being.

For instance, according to one 2007 study, a warming planet may mean an increased growing season in Greenland; but it also means water shortages, more frequent and more intense wildfires and expanding deserts.

For the United States, observations clearly show a declining frequency of extreme weather events, that sea level changes are indistinguishable from geological uplift or sinking processes, and decreased risk of regional water scarcity (due to more frequent winter polar vortices replenishing the water table), heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems.

These emissions are linked with real damages to Oregon's residents and environment, mostly in the form of more frequent and severe heat waves, wildfires, and droughts.

Anyone is hiding their head in the sand if they ignores the increasingly frequent and extreme floods, droughts, water shortages, wildfires, food supply problems, socioeconomic unrest and other associated problems showing up in world news.

Such claims include the meme that rising global CO2 has caused accelerating, rapid US warming; that droughts are destroying all of our food crops; that more frequent and stronger weather disasters from warmer temperatures are wreaking untold harm; that global warming will shorten / threaten US life spans; that ever expanding wildfires are consuming our forests; and etc., etc., etc..

«One major concern about wildfires becoming more frequent in permafrost areas is the potential to put the vast amounts of carbon stored there at increased risk of being emitted and further amplify warming,» said Todd Sanford, a climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by e-mail.

Heat waves, downpours and wildfires have become frequent.»

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods — all are now more frequent and intense.

The larger, more frequent, wildfires occurring in the late 20th century increased the abundance of deciduous trees and mosses in the forest at the expense of coniferous trees.

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 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.

President Obama: «Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods — all are now more frequent and intense»

«[C] ommunities across the Nation are already experiencing a range of climatic changes, including more frequent and extreme precipitation events, longer wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack, extreme heat events, increasing ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels,» the report says.

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.

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.

As the Northwest and the rest of the world are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change from more frequent and extreme droughts, wildfires, and flooding, proposed coal export and oil transport infrastructure in the region would lock - in for decades huge amount more carbon pollution.

Climate change is causing more frequent and longer - lasting wildfires.

Climate change impacts — ranging from more frequent and severe storms, floods, heat waves, and wildfires, to increased risk of asthma attacks and longer allergy seasons — are already affecting our security, our economy, and our communities.

Hertsgaard lays out other projected and potential impacts: harsher heat waves; stronger storms; more disease and pestilence; increased drought and less frequent but more intense heavier precipitation events; more wildfires; lower crop yields; and mass extinctions.

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.

Public health impacts include injuries and deaths from heat waves; more intense storms, floods, and wildfires; more severe and frequent bad - air days; and changes in disease pathways and allergen potency.

This will result in less frequent and severe wildfires, enhanced ecosystems and economic development for rural areas.

Despite the relatively frequent occurrence of natural disasters, including wildfires and earthquakes, the state has lower insurance costs than half of the nation.