Sentences with phrase «from extreme events»

... After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long term there is no climate change signal... of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.

The loss of these data significantly reduces the ability of scientists and disaster response professionals to learn from these extreme events.

Increasing climate variability and more frequent disruptions from extreme events are projected to increase price volatility for agricultural commodities, and reduce food quality.

If this trend is not halted soon, many millions of people will be at risk from extreme events such as heat waves, drought, floods and storms, our coasts and cities will be threatened by rising sea levels, and many ecosystems, plants and animal species will be in serious danger of extinction.

It does not take systematic account of «direct impacts on the environment and human health» — things such as mortality from extreme events like heat waves or tsunamis, for instance.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

The tsunami was at least three times the size of a 1946 tsunami that was the most destructive in Hawaii's recent history, according to the new study that examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred.

Marine creatures that live along the coast are used to dramatic swings in salinity, sedimentation, and other conditions, and studies have found populations can bounce back from extreme events.

Studies on mild fluctuations in weather have provided support for the idea that higher biodiversity results in more stable functioning of ecosystems, but critical appraisal of the evidence from extreme event studies is lacking.

Later this week, as I noted on Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meeting in Kampala, Uganda, will issue its report on ways to manage risks from extreme events in a changing climate.

As Texas and Florida rebuild after Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, they should plan for future climate change and design infrastructure that can respond to and recover from extreme events.

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including those from climate but also from other social and environmental issues.

[T] here is little evidence from anywhere that weather forecasts materially influence property damage from extreme events, even if they do save lives.

«What is ultimately needed is a volatility index that measures the evolving risk from extreme events — so that global vital signs can be coupled to local information on what people care most about,» Victor and Kennel write.

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.

As international climate talks resume in Bonn today, two months after climate scientists warned of climate - change - related risks from extreme events, leaders of the G7 are meeting in Brussels to discuss topics including the Ukraine, climate and energy.

However they then reported that through the 1990s damage from extreme events had actually declined reporting, «The number of deaths related to tornadoes, hurricanes, and severe storms have either decreased or remained unchanged over the past 20 years.»