Sentences with phrase «intensity of extreme»

[52] In discussions with a number of Torres Strait Islander people, the impacts are already being felt, with unprecedented flooding from surging king tides and the increasing intensity of extreme weather events [53]:

«If, as many believe, a warming climate causes a rise in the intensity of extreme events like Hurricane Katrina, we're likely to see an increase in tree mortality, resulting in an elevated release of carbon by impacted forest ecosystems.»

In addition to rising global temperatures, the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events is one of the clearest already observed effects of climate change.

A climatechange.gov.au document on the indicators of climate change states there is a «growing and robust body of evidence that climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events».

The document adds that while it is «difficult to isolate» the role of climate change in any given event, «long - term records demonstrate that we are now experiencing changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme events.»

In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low.

Real world observations tell us that the IPCC's speculative computer models do not work, ice is not melting at an enhanced rate, sea - level rise is not accelerating, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is not increasing, and dangerous global warming is not occurring.»

Increasing carbon dioxide emissions cause a warming climate and, associated with that, increase the intensity of extreme events.»

• Increasing the intensity of extreme events, like hurricanes, extreme precipitation and flooding

But, as far as what we can expect from the IPCC and what the consensus science is, climate change is likely to lead to increased occurrences and intensity of extreme weather events like heavy rainfall, droughts, warm spells, storm surges, heat waves and sea level rise.

Yes; the type, frequency and intensity of extreme events are expected to change as Earth's climate changes, and these changes could occur even with relatively small mean climate changes.

«The study shows that aggressive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will translate into sizeable benefits, starting in the middle of the century, for both the number and the intensity of extreme heat events,» Dr Tebaldi says.

The Gulf Coast is historically prone to hurricanes, but climate change has contributed to a greater intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes and an increase in the amount of rain produced by those events.

The globally averaged intensity of extreme precipitation also changes more rapidly than the globally averaged precipitation rate.

Human - induced climate change is modifying the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events

Further, «confidence in large - scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones [such as «Superstorm» Sandy] since 1900 is low.»

That's why Greenpeace Russia is launching a new international initiative, Greenpeace Fire — to raise awareness about wildfires and how they're fuelling the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather, as well as prompting action to reduce their severity.

As anyone who remembers Al Gore's movie «An Inconvenient Truth» knows, the 2005 film claimed climate change was increasing both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes.

U.S. policy seems to largely stem from the political football that we have allowed the issue to become, where a vocal minority contradicts global scientific and political consensus, and flat - out ignores the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

Like Coumou & Rahmstorf, Otto et al. (2012) found that global warming contributed to the intensity of the extreme 2010 Russian heat wave, concluding there was

They estimate that there has been a (roughly) 18 - percent increase in the intensity of extreme rain events along this stretch of the Gulf Coast since the late 1800s.

The duration, frequency and intensity of extreme heat events have increased across large parts of Australia.

Many climate impacts, particularly the most damaging ones, will be associated with an increased frequency or intensity of extreme events, the scientists agreed.

There are multiple studies associating extreme precipitation events with waterborne disease outbreaks and strong climatological evidence for increasing frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the future.

«The messages of the two points outlined in the extract above are: (1) the claims about increases in frequency and intensity of extreme events are generally not supported by actual observations and, (2) official information about climate science is largely controlled by agencies through (a) funding choices for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National Climate Assessment.»

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 5).2 Regional climate models (RCMs) using the same emissions scenario also project increased spring precipitation (9 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) and decreased summer precipitation (by an average of about 8 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) particularly in the southern portions of the Midwest.12 Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation are projected across the entire region in both GCM and RCM simulations (Figure 18.6), and these increases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitation.12, 2

Given projected increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the Midwest (Chapter 2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 6), 57 it appears that sewer overflow will continue to constitute a significant current health threat and a critical source of climate change vulnerability for major urban areas within the Midwest.

Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events are projected for all U.S. regions.

Since the 5th IPCC report was released 3 years ago, many more scientific papers have been published that also endorse the position that there is not an established link between increases in the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events and anthropogenic climate change.

The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is heavily influenced by natural climate variability.

The report says rising sea levels and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as typhoons and floods — all the result of global warming — are claiming lives, destroying or damaging homes and infrastructure, reducing crop yields, and ruining employment prospects.

«Since the AR4, there is some new limited direct evidence for an anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation, including a formal detection and attribution study and indirect evidence that extreme precipitation would be expected to have increased given the evidence of anthropogenic influence on various aspects of the global hydrological cycle and high confidence that the intensity of extreme precipitation events will increase with warming, at a rate well exceeding that of the mean precipitation..

There has been an ongoing debate, both in and outside the scientific community, whether rapid climate change in the Arctic might affect circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes, and thereby possibly the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events.

But the scientists added their data also showed that there would be a «modest increase» in the intensity of these extreme weather events

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Paul O'Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at MIT, has looked at how climate models expect the intensity of extreme snowfalls to change compared to average snowfalls.

Climate extremes: challenges in estimating and understanding recent changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate and weather events [chapter].

Climate scientists know that the intensity of extreme precipitation events is on the rise because there's more water vapor in the atmosphere caused by higher global and sea temperatures.

It is probable that climate warming will cause increases in the intensity of some extreme events.

Predicting both the frequency and intensity of extreme events — those that are rare in a location — could allow society to lessen their impact and potentially avoid loss of life and destruction.

«These data suggest that one result of the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events will be homogenization of diversity in cities and that the direction of this simplification of urban communities may be quite predictable,» says Savage.

Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

They heed Houghton's warning that the period since 1980 «has been remarkable for the frequency and intensity of extremes of weather and climate».

This is addressed by evaluating change in global or large - scale patterns in the frequency or intensity of extremes (e.g., observed widespread intensification of precipitation extremes attributed to human influence, increase in frequency and intensity of hot extremes) and by event attribution methods.

Detection and attribution of observed changes in the frequency and / or intensity of extremes, and

Extremes: extend the analysis of projected future climate change to include changes in the frequency and intensity of extremes in our region.

He also pointed out the importance of informing our society of IPCC findings, and to invest in infrastructure and systems that would allow societies to adapt to higher frequencies and intensities of extreme events.

Not exact matches

Soft, soothing music is low in arousal, which measures the intensity of a piece (while my husband's picks are at the extreme other end of the scale).

Suffering holds hidden within it, in extreme intensity, the ascensional force of the world.