Sentences with phrase «intense heatwaves»

A new study coming out the City College of New York shows that continued warming temperatures, combined with the well - known (and growing) urban heat island effect, means more frequent and more intense heatwaves are in store for New York.

The kind of things I'm referring to are more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding and droughts, sea level rise and its associated impacts, glacier melt, damage to sensitive ecosystems, increased tropical cyclone activity, increased hurricane strength, ocean acidification.

Some of them are fairly obvious — if you warm up the planet, you're going to have more frequent and intense heatwaves.

Frequent and intense heatwaves threaten our workers» health and damage our infrastructure.

More intense heatwaves are in store this century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Sydney has also missed the intense heatwaves of the southern states, but it's summer and in this new extra warm world our time, for the great big heat, will come.

Several western cities set new all - time June temperature records, due in part to an intense heatwave the second half of the month, including Boise, Idaho where the temperature soared to 110 °F.

Not exact matches

However, the heatwave would not have been this long and intense if it wasn't for climate change, says Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 °C to 5 °C warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the century — all because of the way plants on the ground respond to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Climate change is already upon us, melting ice, killing forests and making floods and heatwaves more intense.

I wore this outfit on my way home to see the family this past weekend during an intense summer heatwave!

After heatwaves and intense humid, rain has come.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

The harmful impacts are already being felt here in America — more deadly heatwaves, more extreme droughts, and more intense and costly storms and flooding.

A review paper published in 2016 assessed evidence from multiple studies and found that heatwaves are becoming more intense and more frequent for the majority of Australia.

A computer simulation of the atmosphere showed that climate change tripled the odds that the heatwaves of 2012/2013 would occur as frequently as they did and doubled the odds that they would be as intense as they were.

On top of another record hot year globally, and as heatwaves become more frequent and intense, our cities are making us even hotter.

Heatwaves and droughts are more intense.

But all three also point to the same bleak conclusion: human impacts on the atmosphere promise only the choice between a dangerous future, and a catastrophic one, as the planetary thermometer rises, glaciers and icecaps melt, the oceans become more acidic and more likely to flood coastal communities, hurricanes and typhoons become more intense and destructive, heatwaves become more lethal and droughts become more devastating.

Severe «snowmageddon» winters are very likely linked to the rapidly increasing polar temperatures, with deadly summer heatwaves and intense flooding probably also linked.

Screen shot 2015-07-07 at 2.51.21 PM.png «OUR COMMON FUTURE UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global warming.

So we know we get heatwaves now, we know we get flooding events, but will they become more frequent, or will they become less frequent, but more intense?

Heatwaves, droughts, floods, wildfires, and other types of extreme weather are becoming more intense due to human - caused global warming.

And there's a high risk that heatwaves, fires, cyclones, heavy rainfall and drought will become even more intense and frequent in the coming decades.

As natural catastrophes, such as floods, heatwaves or wildfires, are expected to become more frequent and intense in the future, mitigating their impacts through working partnerships and the dissemination of risk information is vital.

This intense (but thankfully brief) heatwave comes on the heels of a period of relatively quiescent conditions across California.

The two US statisticians looked at two questions: how frequently in future would today's once - in -20-years heatwaves happen, and how intense would these become?

Climate change makes a variety of extreme weather events more likely and more intense, including heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and superstorms.

The assessment of future weather extremes finds the role of human influence is «detectable» in summer heatwaves and in intense rainfall.