Sentences with phrase «impact on an extreme event»

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There's been plenty of talk over the past month or so about the impact that the extreme weather events north of the border will have on food and grocery prices, vegetables and bananas especially.

Governor Cuomo announced nearly $ 2.2 million will be awarded to 34 farms across the state through the Climate Resilient Farming Grant Program, to help farms reduce their operational impact on the environment and better prepare for and recover after extreme weather events.

Those storms are what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called the new normal, extreme weather events that can have a devastating and long - lasting impact on the region.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

This month the IPCC releases its second report, which focuses on global warming's impacts, ranging from intensifying droughts to heavier downpours and other extreme weather events.

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

Assessing climate change impacts on extreme weather events: the case for an alternative (Bayesian) approach.

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Researchers examined the impact on air and water temperatures as well as the frequency of extreme events.

The bill focuses heavily on the likely impacts of climate change in Mexico and points to concerns over the increase in extreme weather events.

Gabriele Villarini, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Iowa and the second author of the paper, studies extreme meteorological events, what drives the frequency and magnitude of those events, and their impact on policy and economics.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

To attribute any specific extreme weather event — such as the downpours that caused flooding in Pakistan or Australia, for example — requires running such computer models thousands of times to detect any possible human impact amidst all the natural influences on a given day's weather.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

What impact may extreme weather such as heavy rainfall events or drought have on my region?

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Adil knows it's huge, and the impacts on Pakistan alone could be a shower of extreme events, each harder to recover from as the years pass.

So a small shift in temperature has an outsized effect on the frequency of extreme events due to relative impact of this shift.26

Organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GOTHAM Summer School (18th - 22nd September 2017) will train young scientists on a unique combination of interdisciplinary scientific topics and tools relevant for understanding teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events.

Anthropogenic climate change is expected to have an impact on these types of events: warm temperature extremes and heavy precipitation extremes have -LSB-...]

That's one area of research that we are working on currently which has a really big impact on extreme weather events and it's this kind of phenomena that we need to understand much better.

And that change has really made a remarkable impact on the chance of the likelihood of extreme weather events.»

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.

There are huge problems with getting unbiased measures of extreme events — especially events linked to actual impacts on humans and nature.

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.

We advocate including extreme events in the global planetary health indicators because extreme events have a particularly large impact on human and natural ecosystems — and that's what, ultimately, people care about most.

The second lecture deals with the impacts of climate change (with a focus on extreme events and sea - level rise) and the possibilities for holding global warming below 2 °C.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

He is properly trying to CLARIFY these differences and pointing out that Climate Change is NOT a Forcing that has any physical impacts on either «weather» overall and «extreme events» in particular.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

As to climate change and its impacts on storms and floods, the IPCC and NOAA among many other top scientific groups have indicated that climate change will result in more extreme weather events, including heat waves, wildfires, storms and floods.

Yesterday the World Meteorological Organisation published its Annual Statement on the Climate, finding that «2013 once again demonstrated the dramatic impact of droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones on people and property in all parts of the planet» and that «many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human - induced climate change.»

While extreme weather can sometimes come with benefits, the report said, ``... on balance, because systems have adapted to their historical range of extremes, the majority of the impacts of events outside this range are expected to be negative.»

An that's true IMO for many points unsufficiently documented, but highly mediatized because of their psychological impact (rate of sea - level rise, effects on biodiversity, tipping points in carbon cyles, global frequency of extreme events, etc..)

That means when something like extreme weather events reduce crops and / or cause people to ban exports, then the price of food has to run up pretty high to have an impact on demand, which is devastating to poor people.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

While it may not sound like much, the impact on our planet's climate would be catastrophic, potentially leading to extreme weather events, droughts, desertification, and famine.

On another page, entitled «Impacts of Climate Change», the Met Office states: «Higher temperatures, fresh water shortages, higher sea levels and extreme weather events will each affect regions differently.

Local sea level rise and extreme events can have significant impacts on coastal zones.

This hedging strategy will buffer the impact an extreme carbon risk event might have on a portfolio while potentially capturing the upside of the transition away from fossil fuel assets.

Precipitation extremes, many of them associated with one of the strongest La Niña events of the past 60 years, had major impacts on the world.

This analytical document focuses on the higher temperatures, sea level rise, and extreme weather events linked to climate change are having a major impact on the Asia - Pacific region, harming its economies, natural and physical assets, and compounding developmental challenges, including poverty, food and energy security and health.

In the event of increasing extreme events such as cyclones (hurricanes)(see Section 16.3.1.3) forest biodiversity could be severely affected, as adaptation responses on small islands are expected to be slow, and impacts of storms may be cumulative.

The document also provides short synopses of the status of the climate in different regions, and describes the impacts of continuing and increasing global warming on the regions, including increased incidences of extreme weather events, as well as the loss of lives and livelihoods caused by these events.

In Africa in particular, where vulnerability is high, there is a clear need to mitigate adverse impacts of extreme weather events on society, the economy and the environment.

The American public seems eager to discuss climate change, at least in relation to extreme weather events, as they are living with its impacts on their lives.

Short - term adaptation and mitigation includes predicting extreme events, while long - term actions include modelling the impact of air quality or ozone layer on human health.