Sentences with phrase «make deadly heat»

This would be the type of heat that would make deadly heat wave in Europe in 2003 that killed more than 70,000 people «look like a refreshing day or event,» said study co-author Jeremy Pal of Loyola Marymount University

Nevertheless, the new finding provides hope that scientists can recognize 2 to 3 weeks in advance the conditions that make deadly heat waves more likely, an early warning substantially beyond the 10 - day forecasts meteorologists typically muster.

Not exact matches

In a previous study, he and a colleague found that future warming will make the Persian Gulf extremely vulnerable to deadly heat waves.

In 2011, it became embroiled in heated debates about «gain - of - function» experiments with the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 that made it more transmissible in mammals.

In the past 3 - 4 decades, there has been an increasing trend in high - humidity heat waves, which are characterized by the persistence of extremely high night - time temperature.1 The combination of high humidity and high night - time temperature can make for a deadly pairing, offering no relief and posing a particular threat for the elderly.

For a reader with the background knowledge to know that the desert sun's «climbing» implies that it is moving toward the point where it is hottest and where that heat is deadly to mammals, there is not much of an inference to make — survival demands that the rat hide until the sun goes down.

In fact, exposure to heat can be deadly for pugs whose nearly nonexistent snouts make them more susceptible to heatstroke.

An as yet unpublished paper by NASA climatologist James Hansen and others makes the case that recent extreme heat events, such as Russia's 2010 deadly heatwave and last year's extreme drought in Texas, are directly linked to our warming planet.

NEW DELHI (March 9, 2016)-- Building on adaptation commitments made at the Paris climate talks in December, India is launching the first regional early warning systems and preparedness plans in South Asia this month to protect highly vulnerable communities from deadly heat waves intensified by climate change.

It is also widely agreed that the world has seen a spate of extreme heat events in recent years, such as the 2011 Texas heat wave and drought and the deadly 2010 heat wave in Russia, and that global warming made some of these events more likely to occur and more severe.

We may yet find that climate change was responsible for how bad the Pakistan floods were, for how much rain fell, but for now, it looks like a similar atmospheric blocking action that kept storms pretty much in one place, the same action that made eastern Russia have the long deadly heat wave and Siberia have an opposite cold wave.