Sentences with phrase «intense hurricanes as»

These two papers add to the growing body of evidence that we are seeing more intense hurricanes as a result of human - caused global warming.

The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported, according to Muller.

Also, unlike the bulk of climate models to date, the increase in odds of extreme storms found in the study stems both from a shift toward more intense hurricanes as well as an overall increase in hurricane frequency.

Not exact matches

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

The pattern isn't as evident in the northern Atlantic Ocean as it is in the southern Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, but if the trend continues, it means more intense hurricanes in places of greater population.

«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.

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high - resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurricanes and cyclones.

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

Climate models suggest that hurricane intensity should increase as the world warms, and that the most intense storms will become a bigger proportion of the total.

And it's likely that there is some kind of effect, such as hurricanes becoming more intense.

Fink practices top - grade journalism in this revealing, riveting chronicle of events during Hurricane Katrina and the intense flooding that followed as experienced at New Orleans Memorial Hospital.

When rain does fall in Cancun during the hurricane season, it's very intense and is over as quickly as it begun.

Finally — it is not remotely necessary for a season to be as intense as 2005 in order for it to be very intense — after, all, 2004 (15 tropical storms, 9 hurricanes, 6 major hurricanes) had over 150 % of the activity of an average season, yet was much less active than 2005 (28 tropical and subtropical storms, 15 hurricanes and 7 major hurricanes.)

As Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it in a email not long ago: «One has to recognize that the human toll from hurricanes results from the most intense wind and rain events; the vast majority of storms do little or no damage.

He states specifically that single storms can't be attributed (correct), he talks about increasing SST fueling more intense hurricanes (reasonable), mentions a few big hurricanes as examples (fine).

There has been an intense rush to use Hurricane Sandy as a teachable moment to focus the public (and politicians) on the risks of an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases and resulting global warming.

The frequency of more intense hurricanes, possibly enhanced by global warming may have increased as well.

What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high - resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurricanes and cyclones.

Some of the effects of climate change are likely to include more variable weather, heat waves, heavy precipitation events, flooding, droughts, more intense storms such as hurricanes, sea level rise, and air pollution.

The storm slammed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico today as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades.

Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures.»

Consider the more intense Hurricane of 1938, which made landfall on Long Island slightly north of New York City as a more intense category 3 hurricane, implying sustained wind speeds between 111 and 130 miles Hurricane of 1938, which made landfall on Long Island slightly north of New York City as a more intense category 3 hurricane, implying sustained wind speeds between 111 and 130 miles hurricane, implying sustained wind speeds between 111 and 130 miles per hour.

For a long time, we've understood, based on pretty simple physics, that as you warm the ocean's surface, you're going to get more intense hurricanes.

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.

As you'll know there is no consensus on that particular question yet (from what I recall there may be little change in numbers, or maybe even somewhat fewer, but among these there should be more intense ones, but hurricanes are one of the more difficult things to predict).

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Storms as intense as Hurricane Katrina could in a few decades be occurring in the Atlantic every other year under the influence of the changing climate, researchers say.

For example, we now know that the rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was 15 percent more intense and three times as likely to occur due to human - induced climate change.

That is almost as much as Hurricane Katrina, even though Hurricane Sandy was much less intense.

Isolating natural hurricane losses, anthropogenic hurricane losses (or maybe something in the middle, i.e., hurricanes that would have happened anyway but were a few percent more intense), fully accounting for losses in the early part of the time series record, as well as increases in socio - economic infrastructure in vulnerable areas is pretty sketchy business... this is a new approach and something which should be investigated much further.

In both cases, the scientists have found evidence that the most intense hurricanes are already occurring more often as a result of human - caused global warming.

[1] Research findings published in the science journal Nature in August suggest increased sea surface temperatures as a consequence of global warming, will lead to more intense hurricanes.

Many other measures or terms exist, such as «named storm days», «hurricane days», «intense hurricanes», «net tropical cyclone activity», and so on.

We think hurricanes might become more intense, but we do not know much about how many other phenomena — such as tornadoes and hailstorms — might be affected by climate change.

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

Severe hurricanes, or tropical cyclones as they are known by those living outside the United States, are the most intense storms on the planet.

Residents of Caribbean islands and the coastal United States — including those still recovering from last year's storms — may need to brace themselves for another intense hurricane season, as forecasts predict «above average» Atlantic storm activity in 2018.

The following site has the 10 deadliest, 10 costliest, and 10 most intense hurricanes: - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/ RE --(To counter the «matter of fact» smug cycle theorists, there has to be a proper history recounted by climatologists capable of recounting that there was so called similar year (s), the «it was just as bad as in the 1940's» ball is lobbed out, now we have to say, ho ya??? When then??

The GFDL hurricane model (with a grid spacing as fine as 9 km) is able to simulate the frequency, intensity, and structure of the more intense hurricanes, such as category 3 - 5 storms, much more realistically than the regional (18 km grid) model.

Hurricane Wilma last year set a record as the most intense hurricane on record, with winds ofHurricane Wilma last year set a record as the most intense hurricane on record, with winds ofhurricane on record, with winds of 175 mph.

As noted above, there is some indication from high resolution models of substantial increases in the numbers of the most intense hurricanes even if the overall number of tropical storms or hurricanes decreases.

Other climate changes related to greenhouse warming, such as increases in vertical wind shear over the Caribbean, lead to fewer yet more intense hurricanes in the GFDL model projections for the late 21st century.

In his new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he uses a procedure known as «downscaling» — combining together global climate models with a much higher resolution hurricane model — to show that hurricanes may be both more numerous and also more intense going forward.

The fact is, is that NOAA, in the federal government, has shown that there is conclusive evidence that the tropical waters are getting warmer as a result of global warming and while that doesn't lead to more hurricanes, what it leads to is more intense, and and hurricanes, hurricanes that are more intense.

Research shows that hurricanes and typhoons are likely to become more intense with stronger winds as the planet, including ocean temperatures, continues to warm.

In the future, there may not necessarily be more hurricanes, but there will likely be more intense hurricanes that carry higher wind speeds and more precipitation as a result of global warming.

Simmons and the youth he works with have observed first - hand changes to their country over the past few years; longer droughts and dry seasons, shorter but more intense rainy seasons, bleaching of coral reefs as well as stronger hurricanes.

However in 2010, the Atlantic saw 19 tropical storms, of which 12 became hurricanes as expected (and forecasted) due to the intense La Nina event and continued positive Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).