Sentences with phrase «from extreme climate change»

The animals Neanderthals hunted — mostly bison and giant deer — died off from extreme climate change.

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The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Historic Environment Scotland report that Ewan Hyslop, Head of Technical Research and Science at HES, said: «Climate change poses a number of very real threats to Scotland's historic environment, from an increased frequency of extreme and unpredictable weather events to rising sea - levels.»

Weather extremes caused by climate change may soon lead to food insecurity around the world, according to a paper from t...

«From combating climate change and reducing carbon emissions to safeguarding our coastal communities and strengthening resiliency in the face of extreme weather — New York must continue to lead the way forward,» Cuomo said in the statement.

The panel is expected to discuss topics ranging from the impact of climate change on New Yorkers» health, the increase in extreme weather such as heightened flood risk, and recent efforts by the state to respond.

Unless... Suppose David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced that they agreed with Ed Miliband's warning over the weekend that Britain is «sleepwalking to a crisis», and that «climate change threatens national security» — and went on to commit themselves to working together on a long - term plan to protect the nation not just from extreme weather conditions but the other consequences of climate change.

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.

Changes in extreme weather will require governments to change how they cope with natural disasters, a new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changechange how they cope with natural disasters, a new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeChange warns

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

Risky Business based its findings on data from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as peer - reviewed literature on extreme weather impacts on crops, labor productivity and energy system performance.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

A carbon policy would help protect Americans from the worst effects of climate change, such as extreme heat waves and droughts.

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.

In recent years, many studies have sought to unsnarl the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability on extreme weather events (SN: 1/20/18, p. 6).

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.

From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill - prepared U.S. public health infrastructure

The current extreme El Niño, which many blame on climate change, is the strongest on record, smashing the previous record from 1997 - 8

Connecting extreme weather to climate change distracts from the need to protect society from high - impact weather events which will continue to happen irrespective of human - induced climate change, say experts.

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

The studies are from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - led effort to explain the role of climate change in 16 extreme weather events in the United States and elsewhere.

They modelled three climate change scenarios in the region, ranging from conservative to extreme.

Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate could boost the number of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.

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.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.

The changing climate will enhance the wide variations in weather that mid-latitude regions already experience from year to year and bring an increased number of extreme events such as heat waves and hailstorms, Busalacchi says.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Remaining issues include mechanisms for transparency that would ensure nations live up to their commitments, how much money will be available to help struggling nations adapt to climate change or deal with loss and damage from extreme weather, and whether commitments will be revisited and made more ambitious in the future.

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

At one extreme, he shows how environmental disruption from climate change, deforestation and increased...

OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

Co-author Dr Alison Kay from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said: «Our hydrological modelling suggests that the increased likelihood of extreme rainfall arising from human - made climate change gives a more modest increase in extreme flows in the River Thames.

But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.

M.T.B. was supported by NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, J.A.B. acknowledges support from the ARCCSS (CE110001028), E.C.J.O. by ARC grants FS110200029 and CE110001028, N.J.H. acknowledges funding support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Earth Systems and Climate Change (ESCC) Hub Project 2.3 (grant B0024391), P.J.M. by Marie Curie CIG PCIG10 - GA -2011-303685 and NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, S.C.S. by an Australian Government RTP Scholarshipin, M.F. by a CAS - CSIRO collaborative project on Marine Science and the Blue Economy and the Western Australia Marine Science Institution.

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

From rising ocean levels to extreme weather, global climate change continues to make headlines.

Under climate change, weather patterns in the Mediterranean buffer the Northern Adriatic from the ill affects of extreme tides.

Many underdeveloped nations lack the infrastructure and resources to recover physically and economically from climate - change extremes, such as storms, drought and other natural disasters.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

From heat waves to downpours, a number of extreme weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.

Human - induced climate change has contributed to changing patterns of extreme weather across the globe, from longer and hotter heat waves to heavier rains.

According to research from Purdue University, hotter, drier conditions and increased odds of extreme weather events associated with climate change may prove fatal for walnut trees, bringing economic consequences to areas across the nation.

Drawing from both social psychology and climate science, the new model investigates how human behavioral changes evolve in response to extreme climate events and affect global temperature change.

Following preliminary assessments from the Met Office, Oxford University researchers undertook the first scientific experiment to analyse whether the risk of extreme rainfall has changed due to climate change after the winter deluge between December 2013 and February 2014.