If human - induced climate change is responsible, we need to seriously start thinking about decreasing our vulnerability to extreme storm events and pro-actively adapt to a more energetic
future wave climate.»
Not exact matches
The research team, led by University of Hawaii scientists, analyzed
future climate trends by looking at studies of past heat
waves.
It takes into account both the duration and intensity of heat
waves and can serve as a benchmark for evaluating the impacts of
future climate change.
To assess how
future heat
waves might affect air travel, researchers used
climate models to estimate hour - by - hour temperatures throughout the year at 19 particularly busy airports in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, China, and South Asia for the period between 2060 and 2080.
Using a global
climate model, a team led by Princeton University researchers measured how severely heat
waves interact with urban heat islands, now and in the
future, in 50 American cities across three
climate zones.
Yesterday New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed a $ 19.5 billion plan to protect his home town against
future sea level rise and other effects of
climate change such as heat
waves.
Peng, R. D., J. F. Bobb, C. Tebaldi, L. McDaniel, M. L. Bell, and F. Dominici, 2011: Toward a quantitative estimate of
future heat
wave mortality under global
climate change.
Climate Week is Britain's biggest climate change campaign, inspiring a new wave of action to create a sustainable
Climate Week is Britain's biggest
climate change campaign, inspiring a new wave of action to create a sustainable
climate change campaign, inspiring a new
wave of action to create a sustainable
future.
The new study, published May 18 in the journal Nature
Climate Change, finds that the overall exposure of Americans to these
future heat
waves would be vastly underestimated if the role of population changes were ignored....
Heat
waves could get deadlier in the near
future, warns a new study published Monday in Nature
Climate Change.
Our warming world is, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, increasing heat
waves and intense precipitation in some places, and is likely to bring more extreme weather in the
future.
Peng, R. D., J. F. Bobb, C. Tebaldi, L. McDaniel, M. L. Bell, and F. Dominici, 2011: Toward a quantitative estimate of
future heat
wave mortality under global
climate change.
That is arguably the most serious threat to
future food supplies, and yet in
climate coverage more attention is paid to sea level rise, heat
waves, and coastal disruption from hurricanes and superstorms.
As the paper says «We suggest that the stadium
wave hypothesis holds promise in putting in perspective the numerous observations of
climate behavior; offers potential attribution and predictive capacity; and that through use of its associated proxies, may facilitate investigation of past behavior that may better inform our view of
future behavior.
It goes like this: The Russian heat
wave 2010 was caused by a blocking pattern (albeit an extraordinary black swan type one (but we don't care, as these are
future climate model predictions (and now is today, not tomorrow)-RRB--RRB-.
The stadium
wave holds promise in putting into perspective numerous observations of
climate behavior, such as regional patterns of decadal variability in drought and hurricane activity, the researchers say, but a complete understanding of past
climate variability and projections of
future climate change requires integrating the stadium -
wave signal with external
climate forcing from the sun, volcanoes and anthropogenic forcing.
• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat
waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between
climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect
climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of
future risks in response to
climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population
We are helping you to understand that there are other plausible explanations for global warming, and the assumption that it is due to CO2 is based only on opinionated papers hand -
waved through the peer review process by friendly referees [while skeptical papers rarely see the light of day], and by computer model outputs, which are invariably unable to predict the
future climate, or even today's
climate with all available past data as the input.
In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human - made
climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat
waves, massive winter nor'easter s, and a $ 20 billion plan to reduce
future flooding.
And anthropogenic greenhouse gases may in
future perturb the
climate system flow sufficiently to cause some or major change in the global pattern of coupled quasi standing
waves.
If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal
future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's
climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat
waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.
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A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat -
wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of
climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract
future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.
The European heat
wave of 2003 is an example of the type of extreme heat event lasting from several days to over a week that is likely to become more common in a warmer
future climate.
Sea level rose faster in the 20th century than in any other century of the last 3,000 years, new methods for estimating
future sea level rise and heat
waves, consumers to blame for their carbon footprint, and new virtual forests predict
future impacts of
climate change.
This analytical report stresses that AIDS and
climate change are two of the most important «long
wave» global issues of the recent past, the present and the
future.
According to a press release: «Lopez and colleagues used
climate models along with historical
climate data to project
future heat
wave patterns.