Sentences with phrase «future weather extremes»

The assessment of future weather extremes finds the role of human influence is «detectable» in summer heatwaves and in intense rainfall.

... [I] t remains to be determined whether such [CO2 emission reduction] plans ought to be legitimized by a presumed rise in future weather extremes and whether a successful implementation of such plans would result in a demonstrable reduction of socioeconomic damages caused by supercharged weather.

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Professor Lyons explores what the future may hold for transportation given a series of uncertainties such as falling world oil prices, extreme weather events and global security.

He argued that climate change meant more extreme weather is forecast and that recent floods in Australia, earthquakes in New Zealand and Haiti and a famine in Africa were set to be repeated around the world in the future.

ability of absorbing moderate damage in future (+3 C, 50 cm higher sea level and possibly a bit more cases of extreme weather in a century?

She is demanding the prime minister reverse cuts to the Environment Agency budget, invest in flood defences and factor in climate change projections to the future cost of extreme weather.

«There are few things as important as protecting our critical infrastructure ahead of future extreme weather or emergencies,» said de Blasio.

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.

Higher frequency of extreme weather conditions makes it more difficult not only to predict harvests but also to breed crop plants that can better cope with future climate.

The committee also recommends that some future event attribution activities could be incorporated into an integrated weather - to - climate forecasting efforts on a broad range of timescales, with an ultimate goal of providing predictive risk - based forecasts of extreme events at lead times of days to seasons.

The results are the fullest analysis so far of surge waves in the Clyde and could be used to forecast future extreme weather.

One aspect that was not incorporated into this modeling is predicted future frequencies of extreme weather events.

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal shows that people's past experiences with tornadoes inform how they approach this type of extreme weather in the future, including their perception of the risk.

Attribution studies are meant to help policymakers understand whether an extreme weather event is likely to repeat in the future.

«In a future with a warmer climate and more extreme weather, it will be more difficult for fish to survive,» he said.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

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.

Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydrologic cycle, from extreme weather forecasts to long - term projections on agriculture and water resources, is critical both to daily life and to the future of the planet.

«What's up next is to examine the model projections of the future and see what they imply about what might be in store as far as further increases in extreme weather are concerned.»

A new study published in Risk Analysis shows that people's past experiences with tornadoes inform how they approach this type of extreme weather in the future, including their perception of the risk.

The scientists used standard climate computer models to come up with the extreme future weather conditions.

Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

The pilot of Raising Risk Awareness project will run until March 2017 and will generate a suite of tools and knowledge products, and run a series of national and regional events to help civil society, communities, practitioners, media and decision - makers better understand and prepare for the current and future risks from extreme weather events.

The analysis also helps decision makers prepare resources needed for population movement in response to future extreme weather events, particularly in the Gulf Coast region.

Group B: Energy demand and capacity in economies: a case study of Cancun, Mexico Group C: Future city design under extreme weather conditions Group D: Byproduct utilization for transportation systems in Valencia, Spain

The first is understanding extreme events and the risks associated with extreme weather and climate events — in the current climate, but also in a future climate.

«These extreme weather patterns, and the resulting damage, are likely to get worse in the near future,» explains Feltmate.

Scientists are saying that with the climate disruption they are seeing we can expect a lot more extreme weather events — droughts, wildfires, extreme heat and strange storm patterns with names like «derecho» are the future.

«My personal informal estimate is that extreme weather events over the last decade which at least are more probable under future regimes have cost in excess of 100,000 lives and $ 100 billion US»

There's been a lot of noise about extreme weather the past few months, and it frustrates me, because I think that too much jumping up and down about it does a disservice to the science, and to future expectations of immediate, in - your - face evidence of climate change.

Seems that if we know in the future that AGW will cause climate extremes that you darn well know will be costly (and the SREX is pretty clear on that), it's pretty reasonable to attribute at least qualitatively some prior losses from weather extremes to AGW (at least as far back as the AGW signal is identifiable).

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

After studying trends of monsoon rains over 60 years, the researchers have warned of extreme weather conditions in future.

New website provides one - stop shop for flood maps, data on sea level and temperature changes, and other information to aid in planning for future extreme weather events

More extreme weather disasters, higher healthcare bills, and an uncertain future for our children, to name only a few costs.

Oregon's coast will face more flooding and erosion hazards in the future from global sea level rise and extreme weather, including storm surge.

Researchers from the agency, as well as a number of universities, have been creating their own storms with the mission of knowing how the extreme weather condition affects forest and wildlife and, eventually, when and where future storms will occur.

For Tacoli (2009) the current alarmist predictions of massive flows of so - called «environmental refugees» or «environmental migrants», are not supported by past experiences of responses to droughts and extreme weather events and predictions for future migration flows are tentative at best.

I also think that some sceptics have too readily seized on this as evidence of future cooling in the same way that the strong advocated of cAGW seize on any and all extreme weather events as evidence of «climate change».

The big question is whether climate change will make dipole patterns — along with their attendant tendencies to produce extreme weather — more common in the future.

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.

(VIDEO) Visualizing data makes it easier to understand exactly how an extreme weather event affected people's lives, livelihoods, and property and how those things could be affected in the future.

Useful climate science helps humanity adapt to natural weather patterns and plan for future extremes.

«These very strange extreme weather events are going to continue in their frequency and their severity... It's not that climate change is going to be here in the future, we are experiencing climate change.»

Despite 700 years of these natural extreme weather swings, Stanford's Noah Diffenbaugh blames recent swings on global warming stating, «This is exactly what state - of - the - art climate models predicted should have happened, and what those models project to intensify in the future as global warming continues.»

In summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changes.

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, head of WWF's global climate and energy programme, and COP20 President, said: «In a year marked by extreme weather disasters and potentially the first increase in carbon emissions in four years, the paradox between what we are doing and need to be delivering is clear: countries must act with greater climate ambition, and soon, to put us on a path to a 1.5 °C future.

We must begin to «adapt» or build «resilience» to climate and weather extremes, the proposition goes, in order to minimize the damage wrought by future warming.

Climatic uncertainty is increasing, and the only thing certain about future climatic conditions is that variable weather, extreme weather phenomena and the resulting natural disasters are something we will need to get used to.