Sentences with phrase «likelihood of extreme heat»

The increased likelihood of extreme heat would be astounding.

But if, in addition, global warming increases the variance of regional temperatures, then we increase the likelihood of extreme heat waves by a lot.

If we increase the mean temperature (and we already have), of course we increase the likelihood of extreme heat waves (and we already have).

In all cases, they found that climate change played a role in increasing the likelihood of extreme heat.

«Rather striking» climate link to Australian heat waves Because temperature extremes are easier to decipher, scientists are fairly confident that global warming increased the severity and likelihood of extreme heat events in 2013 in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China and Europe.

Not exact matches

Scientists are increasingly drawing links between climate change and extreme weather events, either increasing the likelihood of heat waves, drought, hurricanes, heavy rainfall...

Using WBGT as a measure of environmental conditions conducive to heat stress, we show that anthropogenic influence has very substantially increased the likelihood of extreme high summer mean WBGT in northern hemispheric land areas relative to the climate that would have prevailed in the absence of anthropogenic forcing.

Already, scientists have become much less reticent in tying the likelihood and severity of certain extreme events directly to global warming, particularly heat waves.

Nevertheless, quantifying the causes of such extreme summer heat and projecting its future likelihood is necessary to develop climate adaptation strategies.