Sentences with phrase «means big storms»

Not exact matches

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

The biggest contender when it comes to protection is Texas A&M University's «Ike Dike»: a proposed coastal barrier across Galveston Bay meant to protect the shore from storm surge.

Sure, it's still winter and a big snow storm is due to hit the Northeast, but that doesn't mean a gal can't dream about what she'll be sporting this summer at the beach.

But all that may change when three tennis films storm the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival this year: Battle of the Sexes (featuring Emma Stone and Steve Carell), Borg / McEnroe (with Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason), and Love Means Zero, a documentary about Bollettieri and his world - famous tennis academy, which has produced the sport's biggest stars — including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova, and Serena and Venus Williams.

But just because the big storm is over doesn't mean it's time to let your guard down when it comes to keeping your cats safe.

As an example — and again I do not know if Professor Emanuel or anyone has done anything like this — in the case of tropical storms, there are «out of main season» tropical storms historically, and if the propensity on numbers of storms or severity of storms were to increase, that special population, if big enough historically, might serve as a sensitive means of finding this.

Yes, people probably get the point that global warming and climate change mean higher sea levels, melting ice in the Arctic, fewer species, less snow for skiing, and bigger storms and droughts.

Well warmer ocean temperatures generally means more water vapor gets into the air, and that means more and / or bigger storms, flooding, a warmer Arctic, etc..

Does a slow start mean we won't see any big storms?

Rather, a growing population, more buildings along coastlines and a big economy mean that storm disruptions are more costly.

«This means an inevitable death for the ice cover, because the summer retreat is now accelerated by the fact that the huge areas of open water already generated allow storms to generate big waves which break up the remaining ice and accelerate its melt,» Wadhams said.

More heat energy in means bigger wetter storms, but also drought in areas that the storms do not form.

However, that statement does not mean that we can not say that climate change is making storms bigger.