Sentences with phrase «more about extreme weather»

As someone who owns properties in five cities across three states, I'm thinking more and more about extreme weather and how to manage this risk.

Mullin and Egan said their study could not incorporate the effect of extreme weather on people's preferences, adding that a key message is that scientists should talk more about extreme weather than average temperatures.

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Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more extreme weather events.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

«We recommend for the folks that are talking with farmers one on one, it's probably a more effective communication strategy to talk about more extreme weather rather than saying, «Let's take care of anthropogenic climate change,»» said J. Gordon Arbuckle, a sociology professor with Iowa State University who helps conduct the survey.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

the weather seems to be becoming more extreme, and i'm wondering if / when the weather pendulum will swing so far that this inevitable (mini) ice age i heard about will occur.

The weather almost everywhere in the world is visibly shifting towards more extreme conditions, while the «skeptics» keep arguing about the color of the housing of some thermometers in Wyoming.

If observations do not support code predictions — like more extreme weather, or rapidly rising global temperatures — Feynman has told us what conclusions to draw about the theory.»

It was actually caused by a quasi-tornado, but nobody cares any more about desal plants or extreme / record / unprecedented weather.

More than 20 years of effort have not led to presidents or prime ministers — nor even their climate change ministers — making factually accurate statements about climate change, and especially the link between climate change and extreme weather events.

Much of what is of concern to the military is extreme weather events (e.g. Pakistan floods) driven by natural climate variability and random weather roulette (concerns about sea level rise and the opening of the Arctic Ocean are linked more closely to AGW)

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Further reinforcing the urgency of phasing out coal are the more extreme weather events that climate scientists have been warning about for decades.

Join us for a conversation about how extreme weather events could make us less concerned, not more.

Major «shocks» to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a new report.

We still have much more to learn about «Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather,» as made clear in a Nature Geoscience paper (with that title) written by several of the leading researchers in the field, including Francis.

Probably not, they [SvD] also mixed Tullinge 21 km SSE of the observatory and the observatory up and claimed it was inner city readings... Nobody complained, to the best of my knowledge... Tullinge can be 3,0 C colder a cold winter month, annual average 1,5 C... Hmm... That's about 2 AGWs... What number in CAGW argumental handbooks has more extreme weather, colder winters, hotter summers??? Tullinge is considered a «frost hole», located at an abandoned air force airport, I think we have still colder places nearby... Which someday will be proven... or not!

With the reality of a rapidly degrading climate coming home to people around Australia in the form of ever more extreme weather, it's vital that we have the broadest possible debate about how fast and deep to cut the pollution that is driving it.

In my conversations with repairmen and others I meet in my daily life, I talk about how weather is not climate, but trends can be seen in one's daily life, and that while these particular extremes will come and go, we will see more of them.

His role will be to get companies to reveal more information about their exposure to extreme weather impacts, climate lawsuits and a clean economic shift.

Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), a ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday about climate disruption leading to more extreme weather events, and it was a great speech.

The Ben Nevis weather data will tell us more about extreme rainfall which is thought to be becoming more common in the UK.

I'm trying to enjoy the new knowledge gained and think positively about a house that will be better protected and more resilient when the next extreme weather comes.

Which is all to say, that while humanity will adapt to a climate changed world is true, there is no doubt that climate change will create, in comparison to today, let alone a pre-industrial, lower population world, a world that is less bountiful, prone to more extremes of temperature and weather in many places, less fecund — and since we're talking about human adaptation, more difficult to live in and less conducive to human civilization.

As for the part about a large amount of water vapor being available, this too is part and parcel with global warming — and is in fact an often overlooked factor in the type of extreme weather and changes that become more likely as the planet as a whole warms.

• Some crop yields decrease 40 %, perhaps more because estimates about decreases in crop yield don't include more weather extremes.

To talk more about the pipeline and extreme weather, we're joined by Bill McKibben, founder of the grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, scholar - in - residence at Middlebury College, also the author of many books, including Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.