Sentences with phrase «including extreme heat»

Altered agricultural conditions, including extreme heat, expanded water demands, and increased severe weather events, will affect food availability and cost, particularly in vulnerable regions in which child undernutrition is already a major threat.43 The decreased protein, iron, and zinc content of certain major crops has been demonstrated for plants grown under increased CO2 conditions, 44,45 carrying significant implications for child nutrition.

These profound changes to the Arctic system have coincided with a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

The Asian region also faces a range of climate impacts, including extreme heat, imperiled drinking water resources, and accelerated sea - level rise, which can lead to widespread population displacement, food insecurity, and costly damage to coastal cities and towns.

The potential exists for devastating events with serious health implications, including extreme heat and cold events, flooding and droughts, increases in vectors carrying infectious diseases, and increases in air pollution.

In addition to hostile creatures, a planet's weather can also spell doom for an unprepared player thanks to dangerous weather conditions including extreme heat, extreme cold, toxic atmosphere, and radiation.

Including spending an extended period of time outdoors in all weather, including extreme heat and cold.

In the lab, protein amyloids, like those that clog up the brains of people who died from Alzheimer's disease, are impervious to just about anything, including extreme heat and cold and powerful detergents.

The 2007 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative source of climate science, spelled out the likely consequences of inaction, including extreme heat and precipitation, droughts, and rising seas.

Not exact matches

The council also passed legislation Wednesday that will force the city to study the impacts of extreme weather, including severe heat, rain storms and coastal flooding, to help better prepare the city for the next Hurricane Irene.

In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the influence of climate change on a variety of recent extreme weather and climate events, including marine heat waves.

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«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and NASA are using X-rays to explore, via 3 - D visualizations, how the microscopic structures of spacecraft heat shield and parachute materials survive extreme temperatures and pressures, including simulated atmospheric entry conditions on Mars.

Used to working in extreme conditions, including intense heat, piercing sunlight, rattlesnakes, and no bathrooms, this is the proverbial tough crowd.

The letter, which was spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warns of the numerous threats posed by climate change — including extreme weather events, regional water scarcity, heat waves and wildfires.

At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.192 Drought conditions may increase the environmental exposure to a broad set of health hazards including wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, flash flooding, degraded water quality, and reduced water quantity.

Vulnerability to winter weather depends on many non-climate factors, including housing, age, and baseline health.185, 186 While deaths and injuries related to extreme cold events are projected to decline due to climate change, these reductions are not expected to compensate for the increase in heat - related deaths.187, 188,189

Climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves, air quality, and extreme weather and climate events.

Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

The scientists plan to conduct further research in order to collect more data on various environmental conditions that include drought and extreme heat.

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.

There's also evidence that as it wobbles, it can get stuck out of kilter, which can lead to more persistent weather extremes, including heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and flooding.

The U.S. will likely face the effects of human - induced climate change including rising seas and more frequent bouts of extreme heat.

The impacts of extreme weather events include illness or death as a result of heat stress, injuries, drowning, air and water contamination, and mental health effects.

«For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems,» the updated 2016 letter says.

This included an event - specific attribution study on the 2013 New Zealand drought, as well as highlighting differences in the emergence of heat extremes for the global population when aggregated by income grouping.

Rising CO2 levels have been linked to the globe's average temperature rise as well as a host of other changes to the climate system including sea level rise, shifts in precipitation, ocean acidification, and an increase in extreme heat.

It seems that extreme weather including torrential rains and blazing heat is becoming the new norm, and now new research indicates that more than half of hot extremes are caused by climate change.

That said, the total number of people exposed to extreme heat is expected to increase the most in cities across the country's southern reaches, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Tampa, and San Antonio.

«That includes exposure to cold, wind, low humidity, and extreme heat as well as products,» she said.

This does not include individuals who require larger amounts, such as competitive athletes or those exposed to extreme heat.

These projects include the extreme downsizing of internal combustion engines; efficient management and storage of heat energies; and weight reduction of engines through innovative new design concepts.

There are certain conditions under which the system may not engage or operate, including inclement weather (e.g., snow, ice or heavy rain) and extreme cabin heat (due to operability of the camera).

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And with Oklahoma already seeing its fair share of disasters in 2011 including blizzards, fires, floods, extreme heat and tornados, the sooner you have a plan in place to keep your pet safe, the better.

If you see advanced symptoms of heat stroke, including lack of coordination, loss of consciousness, extreme panting or similar indications that your pet is in distress, immediately call your veterinarian and take your pet in for examination.

Signs of heat stroke include: Excessive panting Bright red gums and ear tips Seizuring and collapse (in extreme circumstances) Unfortunately, dogs and cats don't sweat like people do.

This includes protection from extreme temperatures due to the sensitivity of Boston Terriers to excessive heat or cold.

The epidermis can become inflamed for a number of reasons, including contact with chemicals, plants, dust or other inhaled substances, mechanical irritants, extreme heat, cold, dryness or humidity, parasite or insect bites, poor nutrition and viral, bacterial, fungal or yeast - based infections.

Our CEOs will monitor the weather conditions to gauge the safety of any included walks and may need to call off a given day's walk due to extreme heat.

Weather events include tropical cyclones (covered in a separate project), tornadoes (also covered in a separate project), floods, wind storms, winter storms, droughts, extreme heat / cold and lightning events.

In the science sessions in the afternoon, there was some good talks related to attributing extreme events including Marty Hoerling discussing the Moscow heat wave and a very different perspective from the cpdn group in Oxford.

When discussing extreme weather and climate, tornadoes should not be conflated with the other extreme weather events for which the connection is considerably more straightforward and better documented, including deluges, droughts, and heat waves.

This warning has been bolstered by subsequent studies, including the World» Bank's 2013 «Turn Down the Heat» report on regional impacts of climate extremes.

This influence of climate change on some extremes, including especially heat waves and heavy precipitation and some kinds of storm and flood events must no longer be waved away, swept under the rug, or otherwise ignored.

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.

-- Increases in intensity and frequency of heat waves and extreme precipitation events (a category in which it includes droughts, floods, hurricanes and major storms)

Warming over land can have multiple effects, including melting of mountain glaciers, spread of deserts in continental interiors, greater flooding, more frequent heat waves and other extreme weather patterns.

In particular, the report authors predicted that with climate change there would be an increase in certain types of extreme weather, including daily high temperatures, heat waves, heavy precipitation and droughts, in some places.