Sentences with phrase «global area affected»

There were no significant trends in mean annual total precipitation or total precipitation affected area but we did observe a significant increase in mean annual rain - free days, where the mean number of dry days increased by 1.31 days per decade and the global area affected by anomalously dry years significantly increased by 1.6 % per decade.

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Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»

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These events could affect an area up to the size of the United States for days or perhaps months — a terrifying prospect, but thankfully far from the global dark age of the show.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

If global climates continue to grow more erratic, the affected areas could see a steady increase of promiscuity among birds, Botero says.

There are countless examples of how global warming is affecting life, from plants flowering earlier in spring, to species spreading to areas that were once too cold for them to survive, to birds becoming smaller.

I was part of a global media circus who flew in to drive through landscapes of dust, sit in tin - roofed huts taking notes — «87 487 people seriously affected in this area» — and brace ourselves to look the «seriously affected» in the face.

«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.

He and UA geologist Gregory Leonard called on colleagues in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) network that Kargel led to help identify affected areas by using satellite imagery.

«The results thus predict an interesting two-fold negative impact on the potential world - wide distribution of the miconia plant resulting from global warming since a decrease in potentially affected areas in overrun territories would be minimum,» says González - Muñoz.

Global warming will exacerbate soil droughts in Europe — droughts will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

(b) Total global annual area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1σ of historical mean).

Likewise, fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area were significantly correlated with global net land carbon flux calculated from an analysis of the global carbon budget from 1979 to 2012 (ref.

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

Long fire weather season affected area, defined as the total global area observing fire weather seasons > 1 s.d. from the mean, has increased by 3.1 % per year from 1979 to 2013, leading to a 108.1 % increase in global long fire weather season affected area (Fig. 2b).

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

Despite an absence of global trends in some key meteorological variables, there were distinct regional annual climate trends and changes in anomalous weather event affected area frequency (Fig. 1).

In contrast, seizure medications have both a chronic and global impact on brain function, affecting nearly all areas of the brain all of the time.

«Today, 110 of the 169 countries that declared in 2013 that they are affected by land degradation or drought have expressed interest in recovering large areas of degraded over the next 12 years, under a special global initiative, the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she observed.

During the meeting, Mrs. Cecile Guidote - Alvarez accepted to become honorary membership at Global Education Magazine and she also made a speech about her experience as Director of the Philippine Center of International Theater Institute / Earthsavers UNESCO DREAM Center and Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Therapeutic Emergency Response for the area affected by earthquake and super Typhoon Haiyan in Bohol, as she had made in a previous interview with Global Education Magazine.

They'll use a simple traffic - light approach to explore key areas of energy, water, waste and travel, thinking about how they affect the local and global environment and spotting ideas for improvement.

This global network seeks to improve health security across the world by combating the international spread of outbreaks, assisting affected areas rapidly and appropriately and contributing to planning and preparedness in case of future epidemics.

In response to Mount Agung's warning - level status, global hospitality marketplace Airbnb has activated its Disaster Response Program, calling on its host members in affected and surrounding areas of Bali to provide free accommodation to evacuees.

However, El niño effects combined with global warming are an important area of study, and there are indications that warming may affect the severity, frequency, and persistence of El Nino (more here and here).

Enhancing models so that they can do better in that area may improve regional modelling results, but it won't affect the global picture much.

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

This weekend they said early analysis of the hot weather, together with the size of the areas affected, suggested it was linked to global climate change.

The model for ocean areas is likely to affect global averages much more than the model for land areas.

It is highly doubtful that global CO2 emissions would only affect these two geographic areas and not «global warm» the rest of the country.

Projections of committed global SLR (Left) and municipalities where more than half the population - weighted area would be affected (Right), under different emissions scenarios and assumptions about West Antarctica.

«Of course, the contiguous 48 states cover only 1.5 percent of the world area, so the U.S. temperature does not affect the global temperature much,» said Hansen.

Now the cities here all show an increase as they grew from empty grassland into huge metropolises and that type of warming is naturally expected, but that warming is not global, it only affects a very small few percent of area.

Global warming has a larger affect in polar areas, as the loss of snow and ice leads to more open water, which absorbs more sunlight and warmth.

More research needs to be done, she says, before we can understand how global warming could affect people who live in areas impacted by rising oceans.

Global climate change will affect the water cycle, likely creating perennial droughts in some areas and frequent floods in others.

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As such, ENSO — whatever its cause (and it's been happening naturally for a long time)-- has far - reaching affects on weather over a large area, and a notable impact on global temperature.

Flashback: 2009: NASA's James Hansen: «Of course, the contiguous 48 states cover only 1.5 percent of the world area, so the U.S. temperature does not affect the global temperature much»

When you leave these global technologies behind, the other shortwave interventions rank, unsurprisingly, more or less according to the area they affect.

Whereas some coastal dead zones could be recovered by control of fertilizer usage, expanded low - oxygen areas caused by global warming will remain for thousands of years to come, adversely affecting fisheries and ocean ecosystems far into the future.

Please note in order to avoid perpetuating the mythology that colder than normal temps in some areas mean global warming is not happening — global warming affects the flow of the gulf stream among other things, meaning that while some areas of the globe become unusually hot, others can become unusually cold — witness recent killer freezes in Europe — global warming is to blame for these effects.

We can conclude that a significant proportion of the global land area was increasingly affected by a significant change in climatic extremes during the second half of the 20th century.

So that is gaining carbon too, and the areas affected are so large, we would expect them to have an effect on atmospheric CO2 levels at a global scale.

Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds of protected areas, and different ways of locating them in the landscape, affect deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».

«Historic and future increase in the global land area affected by monthly heat extremes» (Dim Coumou and Alexander Robinson 2013 Environ.

Although this island and similar ones are protected to some extent by the designation of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in 2006 and the closing of all fishing in the area by 2011, they are threatened by potential impacts of global change, which is likely to affect marine ecosystems across the entire Hawaiian Archipelago.

India, Pakistan, most of Africa and most of Latin America would be the areas most affected, according to the Washington - based Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

I'll leave the political part aside — having already taken one swipe in that direction — but consider this: The Mountain West and the Midwest show the lowest levels of global warming evidence acceptance (44 % and 48 % respectively), even though both these areas are among the projected worst to be affected.