Sentences with phrase «from extreme events in»

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The frequency of extreme events has either not changed or has decreased in the 150 years that CO2 levels have increased from 270 to 390 ppm.

Granted, the majority of those opposed to Qatar have a plethora of reasons in their arsenal to object to the event; from human rights violations to extreme heat but is another reason for objection because the World Cup is taking place in a Middle Eastern country?

Seeing as his actions have sparked criticism from The West, what makes the Philippines different in accommodating such extreme views towards drug addicts / dealers (e.g. were there any significant political events that has led to Philippines going this way about it?)

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

On average, 675 deaths from extreme heat events occur each year in the United States.

If you live in Texas or Florida, rising temperatures will combine with population growth to create a sixfold rise in numbers of people exposed to extreme and potentially fatal heat events from 2041 onwards.

According to a recent article published in Weatherwise, titled «The Weather and Climate of Arizona,» extreme weather events, ranging from «heat to cold and dryness to floods... dust storms, forest fires, and unparalleled lightning displays» are all too common in Arizona.

World food prices hit a record high in December thanks to crop failures from a series of extreme weather events around the world

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.

Global warming played a role in half of 2012's litany of extreme weather events, from heat waves to storm surges

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

«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.

Here we are not dealing with large volcanic eruptions of the size of Pinatubo of Mount St. Helens, here we are talking about extreme events: The Toba caldera in the Sumatra subduction zone in Indonesia originated from one of the largest volcanic eruption in recent Earth history, about 74,000 years ago.

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.

German researchers suggest that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are linked to an increase in extreme weather events

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).

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.

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.

Fourteen extreme weather and climate events in 2011 — from the Joplin tornado to hurricane flooding and blizzards — each caused more than $ 1 billion in damages.

In extreme rain events, sediment and associated pollution have already been shown to flow out to sea in a pulse reaching as far out as 100 kilometers (62 miles) that can be seen from space, said RichmonIn extreme rain events, sediment and associated pollution have already been shown to flow out to sea in a pulse reaching as far out as 100 kilometers (62 miles) that can be seen from space, said Richmonin a pulse reaching as far out as 100 kilometers (62 miles) that can be seen from space, said Richmond.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

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.

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.

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 factorsIn 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 factorsin 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 factorsin 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 factorsin incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

And when you get a polar vortex disruption, warm air from the lower latitudes rushes in to the Arctic, and you can get extreme warm events like we saw in February.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfalIn this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfalin order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

«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 thisevents 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 thisEvents and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

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.

8:00 a.m. — The melting cryosphere 9:00 a.m. — Improving gender equity in the geosciences (Workshop) 10:30 a.m. — Spanning disciplines to search for life beyond Earth 11:30 a.m. — Explaining extreme events of 2016 from a climate perspective 12:30 p.m. — ** NEW ** The September 2017 Tehuantepec and Puebla earthquakes in Mexico 1:30 p.m. — Canary in the coalmine: Subsidence in coastal Louisiana 2:30 p.m. — Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria — Part 1 3:30 p.m. — Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria — Part 2

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.

A study recently published in Nature suggests that an extreme global warming event 56 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was driven by massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean.

For the fourth year in a row it investigates the causes of a wide variety of extreme weather and climate events from around the world, including eight studies using weather@home simulations.

Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.

The new research differs from other so - called extreme event attribution studies, not just in its broad - brush approach, but also in how the term «extreme» is defined.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Because these events affect every aspect of our society, decision makers and stakeholders are increasingly in need of historical evaluations of extreme events and how they are changing from seasons to centuries.

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.

And in order to keep extreme weather events from getting event worse, we all need to band together and act on climate change.

Marco has been suffering from a recurring dream — a dream that Shaw wasn't the hero of the hour, but in fact, had been the subject of an extreme psychological make - over, in which all of the troop had their brains «re-wired» to believe the events as instructed, while still under the control of a force they know not the motive of.

In the face of so many extreme weather events rocking the world in recent weeks, Gerard Butler recently sat down with CinemaBlend and explained what he thinks audiences will take away from GeostorIn the face of so many extreme weather events rocking the world in recent weeks, Gerard Butler recently sat down with CinemaBlend and explained what he thinks audiences will take away from Geostorin recent weeks, Gerard Butler recently sat down with CinemaBlend and explained what he thinks audiences will take away from Geostorm.

The fact, three years on from when his book was written, this alleged black swan event hasn't happened and in fact multiple of the currencies he recommended as a «hedge» have tanked against the dollar (Canadian dollar) or have seen extreme swings (Australian dollar) tells you everything you need to know about this «hedge» strategy.

20 dogs on a new list everyday at the moment, no rescue can rescue 20 dogs a day get real and start more adoption events and network and transport animals to no kill shelters if they are serious about saving animals but they are not from the extreme amount euthanised in the last few days, earlier this month and at Christmas!!!

I also notice an extreme lack of diversity across the board in travel blogging from the aforementioned summit, to different lists, to events.

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.

------------------ From reading these quotes in context within pp. 268 - 270 +, it seems to me this is more about economic losses due to hurricanes & floods (human / human - structure exposure and vulnerability), and not about overall possible changing patterns in such extreme events.

In the science sessions in the afternoon, there was some good talks related to attributing extreme events including Marty Hoerling discussing the Moscow heat wave and a very different perspective from the cpdn group in OxforIn the science sessions in the afternoon, there was some good talks related to attributing extreme events including Marty Hoerling discussing the Moscow heat wave and a very different perspective from the cpdn group in Oxforin the afternoon, there was some good talks related to attributing extreme events including Marty Hoerling discussing the Moscow heat wave and a very different perspective from the cpdn group in Oxforin Oxford.

Cai et al (2014) use selected GCMs and find under AGW extreme El Nino turn from being one - in - sixty - year events to one - in - fifteen - year events which is pretty - much what we have seen since 1980.

So it captured extreme inland rainfall from tropical systems (as in this system, Irene, Floyd, and Vermont's epic 1927 gullywasher) as well as nor - easters and any other rare events.