Sentences with phrase «killer heat waves»

Everyone has heard — especially after last summer — how human use of fossil fuels to produce energy will increase the frequency and severity of killer heat waves.

My own approach is to show pictures of hospitals during the 2003 European killer heat wave and pictures of hurricane Katrina submergence and refugees, and to say that it is highly likely that there will be many more such scenes in the future (that is, scenes of mortality, flooding and environmental refugees), due to the probable increase in heat waves and flooding.

It describes killer heat waves, crippling agricultural failures, devastated economies, plagues, resource wars, and more.

If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail - spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.»

The report catalogued some of the disasters that have been visited around the planet since 2000: killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in Australia, and deadly floods in Pakistan.

Originally posted on Open Mind: What with talk of killer heat waves, droughts, floods, etc. etc., this blog tends to get pretty serious.

Climate scientists say that killer heat waves will become increasingly prevalent in many regions as climate warms.

Killer heat waves have the same impact all over the world, and the death toll will soar as global warming begins to grip the planet.

And when the next greenhouse - induced crisis comes — hurricanes in New York, killer heat waves in Delhi or the inundation of Pacific islands — they could be there to provide a blueprint for effective action.

When «climate change» is referred to in the press, it normally means greenhouse warming, which, it is predicted, will cause flooding, severe windstorms, and killer heat waves.

The year also brought outbreaks of cold air, and killer heat waves and floods.

This heat wave seems comparable to the killer heat wave in Europe in 2003, in its extreme departure from anything close to the range of expected highs.

According to one of the most extreme opinion expressed by former Vice President and now Noble Laureate Al Gore in his book entitled «An Inconvenient Truth», we can be certain to see catastrophic events such as droughts, floods, epidemics, killer heat waves, etc. as a result of global warming.

Climate scientists say that killer heat waves will become increasingly prevalent in many regions as climate warms.

To the long list of predicted consequences of global warming — stronger storms, methane release, habitat changes, ice - sheet melting, rising seas, stronger El Niños, killer heat waves — we must now add abrupt, catastrophic coolings.

When «climate change» is referred to in the press, it normally means greenhouse warming, which, it is predicted, will cause flooding, severe windstorms, and killer heat waves.

If we can increase atmospheric CO2 without rich nations suffering, say, killer heat waves, then it's more likely that we'll just continue burning all the coal'til it's gone.