Sentences with phrase «measures of extreme events»

There are huge problems with getting unbiased measures of extreme events — especially events linked to actual impacts on humans and nature.

Not exact matches

«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.

Next, they developed a list of measures to evaluate the five factors they believed should account for the changing levels of concern: extreme weather events, public access to accurate scientific information, media coverage, positions of political elites and efforts by advocacy groups.

An unprecedented study titled, «Lifecycle Assessments of Railway Bridge Transitions Exposed to Extreme Events,» published in Frontiers in Built Environment, benchmarks the costs and carbon emissions for the life cycle of eight mitigation measures and reviews these methods for their effectiveness in three types of extreme environmental conditions.

Additionally, Nassim Taleb, in his now famous work The Black Swan discussed the disconnect between traditional statistical measures (such as standard deviation) and the occurrence of extreme events

Even if you leave climate science completely out of it and just measure extreme temperatures, the statistical record of global temperatures shows that three - standard deviation events have increased from 0.25 % of the time (from 1951 - 1980) to 10 % of the time now.

Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

«The road to resilience: Financing resilient energy infrastructure» examines the evolution of the most critical emerging risks to the energy sector — extreme weather events, energy - water - food nexus and cyber threats — and identifies measures to respond through -LSB-...]

There have been a couple of studies in this area which are really interesting and promising, in that we can start to measure the number of extreme events and hazards from those extreme events.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

In terms of the implications of climate change for soil conservation efforts, a significant realisation from recent scientific efforts is that conservation measures must be targeted at the extreme events more than ever before (Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2003).

Many societies have taken measures to cope with historical weather extremes, but new, more intense extremes have the potential to overwhelm existing human systems and structures.18 More frequent and more severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water management.

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

The choice of a stabilization level implies the balancing of the risks of climate change (risks of gradual change and of extreme events, risk of irreversible change of the climate, including risks for food security, ecosystems and sustainable development) against the risk of response measures that may threaten economic sustainability.

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

Helping vulnerable populations access aid centers in the case of extreme heat events, dissuading construction on coastlines, conserving water resources, and developing drought - resistant crops are adaptation measures we should pursue regardless of the exact magnitude of the changes in store for us.

The main problem is that we now have better detection methods which tend to increase the number of extreme events and increase their measured severity.

No, also notable was the fact that the president never even mentioned the word «climate» or «global warming» once, despite coming off the heels of a year fraught with extreme weather events, that was tied for hottest ever recorded — and coming off of a decade that was indeed the hottest ever measured.

The SREX clearly found a major increase in heat waves and extreme precipitation events, and in order to adapt to these occurrences, the intensity and frequency of which is likely to increase, it would be essential to take in hand urgently certain low regrets measures.