Sentences with phrase «generate more storms»

More heat could «generate more storms and more intense hurricanes,» he said.

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Indeed, nowhere are the barricades being stormed more aggressively than in PG&E's home, California, whose mandate for change is more audacious than any other state's: Its law requires that 50 % of utilities» power be generated by renewable sources by 2030.

OAKLAND — Bishop O'Dowd cleared a big hurdle Saturday in defense of its North Coast Section Division III championship, slowing down Acalanes quarterback Robby Rowell with pressure, pressure and more pressure and generating plenty of electric plays on offense as the Dragons stormed into the semifinals with a 36 - 21 victory on their home field.

Field studies in southeastern Morocco, just a few kilometers away from the site of this dust storm, show that electric fields generated by blowing sand boost dust emissions up to 10 times more than expected from wind alone.

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

This simulated warmer ocean generated storms that were 50 to 160 percent more destructive than Sandy.

For example, greening neighbourhoods or painting roofs lighter colours will both reduce the urban heat - island effect and reduce carbon - dioxide emissions through reduced air - conditioning costs, while making cities more resistant to storm damage would reduce emissions generated from rebuilding devastated areas.»

But climate change has brought milder winters, warmer sea temperatures and bigger storms, which create a vicious cycle that promises less sea ice and more wind and open water to generate ice - crushing waves.

Solar storms trigger Jupiter's intense «Northern Lights» by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's aurora borealis, finds new UCL - led research using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

It was quite common to have two swells coming from different directions, as there can be more than one storm generating waves.

As for growth, 3M's global footprint and a hugely diversified portfolio that includes more than 60,000 products under well - known brands like Post-it, Scotch - Brite, and Filtrete have helped it ride the storms and generate sustainable cash flows for decades.

More storms will generate such deluges in a warming world with moister air, according to solid basic science.

Also, just because the average pole - to - equator temperature gradient is decreasing doesn't mean that the seasonal variation won't still be in place, and then there's the whole issue of the hydrologic cycle intensification — a moister atmosphere carries more latent heat and thus may generate more intense mid-latitude storms as well.

The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.

The deposits revealed that these early storms were more frequent, and in some cases were likely more intense, than the most severe hurricanes Cape Cod has seen in historical times, including Hurricane Bob in 1991 and a 1635 hurricane that generated a 20 - foot storm surge, according to Donnelly.

This would help in the elevated evaporation process and generate more energies in storms.

The majority of storm or anomalies of weather occur with the movement of heat and cold to different areas which then generate events either not seen before or more violent.

According to our analysis of the central Gulf Coast, across the mapped region, 188 major substations (nearly 70 percent of the total) and 20 power plants (representing more than 9,300 megawatts of generating capacity) could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today.

According to our analysis of the Delaware Valley, 79 major substations (30 percent of the total) and 35 power plants (representing more than 8,800 MW of generating capacity) in the mapped region could be exposed to flooding from a major storm today; approximately one third of these substations could be exposed to floodwater depths of 10 to 15 feet or more.

McPherson explained how healthy reefs provide the primary source of protein to over 1 billion people globally, protect coastal areas from severe hurricanes and storms, and generate 27 times more income than global fisheries.

However the positive AAO generated a wind regime that moved up and over the mountains, creating anomalous foehn storms on the eastern side of the peninsula.5 As the winds descend, temperatures adiabatically rise 10 to 20 degrees or more due to changes in pressure without any additional heat as depicted in Figure 2 above.

Although there is at present no means by which to tell whether this particular storm was due to human induced global warming, the devastation it has caused is consistent with the projections generated by climate change models that suggest such storms will become more severe as the world warms up.

I love the circular logic... CO2 causes the planet to warm causing sea level to rise and more storms on coasts... therefore do not build nuclear power plants... which would save the planet from the CO2 generated by non-nuclear power plants.

One Twitter user posted a timeline of Category 5 hurricanes using data going back to 1851 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to wrongly imply that climate change was generating more intense storms.

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.

The session generated a veritable «tweet storm» as it took place, but, more interestingly, in addition to Ryan having written a summary on the 3 Geeks blog, each of the participants afterwards wrote follow - up posts about the sessions:

The spots generated a storm of interest, and Allen went on to create his own syndicated 30 - minute gardening show, P. Allen Smith Gardens, and website, pallensmith.com, which gets more than three million hits each month.