Sentences with phrase «if weather impacts»

There are clauses in game contracts that can be invoked if weather impacts games.

Not exact matches

If, as seems inevitable, the poor suffer first and worst from the impacts of extreme weather, what role should equity play in decisions about relocation?

We need to make an early impact in the game and make Barcelona question weather they can beat us instead us wondering if we can beat them.

«If you use the older normals that have a lot of cold weather, it forces your sales impacts to be higher,» said Linda Clark, a gas sales forecaster for Consumers Energy.

Schultz, a professor of synoptic meteorology, and co-author Dr Vladimir Janković, a science historian specialising in weather and climate, say the short - term, large variability from year to year in high - impact weather makes it difficult, if not impossible, to draw conclusions about the correlation to longer - term climate change.

The authors suggest that developing greater resilience to extreme weather events must be given greater priority if the socioeconomic impact of storms, like those that have ravaged Britain this winter, is to be reduced.

«We recognized that countries that imported food could be impacted by climate shocks in other parts of the world that suddenly increased prices, even if they weren't experiencing any significant weather impacts themselves,» Braumoeller said.

«If the same weather persists for weeks on end in one region, then sunny days can turn into a serious heat wave and drought, and lasting rains can lead to flooding,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany.

If we don't act, the world is vulnerable to devastating climate impacts, including flooding of our coastal cities, water shortages, and increased extreme weather.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

Only when the season is complete can they determine if the unusual August weather had a significant impact on the overall hurricane season.

If the hot weather has been having an impact on how often you are hitting the ice cream shop (yes, I am guilty too), then consider these easy, healthy recipes to get you back on track!

Racing conditions on the track and the weather will have a huge impact on how you can control the car and knowing it all is a necessary requirement if you want to succeed in this mode.

If you're worried about the dynamic weather, Digital Foundry says, «The weather patterns have no real impact on performance.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Even if you get a free flight change from the airline, that won't necessarily cover every aspect of your vacation that can be impacted by winter weather.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

If the Arctic ocean shifts to being largely ice free in summer, what impact will this have on Northern Hemisphere weather patterns?

I often wonder, when weathermen say, ``... above (or below) the average...» if they are averaging the weather stats up to the present day, which would include the impact of GW.

Finally the conclusion that chemical weathering has a greater impact on the reduction in the atmospheric CO2 during a Earth Snowball event then biologic functions seems slightly humorous to me...; however, if you can support the idea I would entertain looking at the data.

Re: 146 «If the Arctic ocean shifts to being largely ice free in summer, what impact will this have on Northern Hemisphere weather patterns?»

Even if NOAA did not have weather observing stations across the length and breadth of the United States the impacts of the warming are unmistakable.

Indeed, even if carbon emissions ended today, there'd still be substantial detrimental impacts — in the form of massive submersion of highly populated coastal regions due to continuing sea - level rise, and famine - inducing droughts in interior regions due to shifting weather patterns.

Now for your catch 22, if it was obvious that whatever sensitivity might be that is was now having an indisputable impact on climate and extreme weather, there would be no reason to that a no / low regrets pathway.

If emissions continue unabated, the world is on track to exceed this budget in only about 30 years — exposing communities to increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought, and other climate impacts.

The Climate Commission's Gerry Hueston, who recently retired as president of BP Australasia, said businesses needed to start considering how extreme weather would impact them... Mr Abbott predicted chief climate commissioner Tim Flannery would lose his job if the Coalition won power at the next election.

As Ages of Greenpeace said: «There are now five California lawsuits that, if successful, will help protect people's lives, livelihoods, and property from the devastating impacts of climate - fueled extreme weather events.»

Ocean patterns can drive multi-decade weather patterns, he said, «but you also have to look to human impact, at least if you're a responsible climatologist, the fact that we're loading our atmosphere with greenhouse gases.»

Is there really a question if seven billion people's cities and activities have anything other than a major impact upon the weather worldwide?

Even if it were possible to put everyone in unlighted, unheated, uncooled shacks and allow no personal travel by energy powered machines, just the infrastructure required to produce and distribute enough food to support the numbers would have an impact upon the weather that would be more than inconsequential.

If global warming continues unchecked, it will cause significant climate change, a rise in sea levels, increasing ocean acidification, extreme weather events and other severe natural and societal impacts, according to NASA, the EPA and other scientific and governmental bodies.

22 Agriculture Agriculture would be most severely impacted by global warming if extreme weather events, such as drought, became more frequent.

The rehearing petition shows how the panel decision, if allowed to stand, will let HFCs keep fueling dangerous climate change, increasing risks for the millions of Americans who are living through hurricanes and other extreme weather events, and experiencing many other climate impacts.

Even if there is some extra impact on weather disasters, the effect in world terms is third - order effect relative to human prosperity.

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

I think last winter's weather would qualify as a black swan: totally unanticipated (and counter to expectations), with widespread adverse impacts (and in hindsight, we had the information if not the knowledge to predict something like this.)

Because slowly increasing temperatures don't seem alarming, the «availability entrepreneurs» push extreme weather events and public health impacts as being caused by human - caused climate change, more of which is in store if we don't quickly act to cool the planet by reducing fossil fuel emissions.

Given the impacts on indirect deaths I believe that increased heating cost will adversely affect mortality if low income people can not afford to keep their homes warm enough to prevent potential health impacts of cold weather.

For even if the models are proven to be wrong with respect to their predictions of atmospheric warming, extreme weather, glacial melt, sea level rise, or any other attendant catastrophe, those who seek to regulate and reduce CO2 emissions have a fall - back position, claiming that no matter what happens to the climate, the nations of the Earth must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions because of projected direct negative impacts on marine organisms via ocean acidification.

While undue hardship may involve something less than insolvency, the Agency is not bound at law to find undue hardship simply if the carriers show any negative impact on their ability to weather a future economic downturn.