Sentences with phrase «more deadly heat»
That extreme heat could lead to more deadly heat waves, wildfires and other climate - related disasters.
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O'Neill was responding to Trump's suggestion that school systems should pay teachers more to pack heat so they can take down active shooters in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla..
Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.
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.
The new research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), could potentially enable forecasts of the likelihood of U.S. heat waves 15 - 20 days out, giving society more time to prepare for these often - deadly events.
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.
President William J. Clinton (archival): If we fail to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, deadly heat waves and droughts will become more frequent, coastal areas will flood and economies will be disrupted.
The deadly heat stress associated with an August 2015 heat wave in Egypt was found to be 70 percent more likely, underscoring the heavy toll of climate change on humans.
Hot on the heels of 1981's Body Heat, One Deadly Summer follows suit by updating noir conventions and archetypes, but while Lawrence Kasdan intensifies «noirishness» by amping the dial to 11, Becker integrates even more cinematic influences and engages with lingering post-WWII anxieties in a manner that broadens, rather than distills, the film's revisionist stakes.
In fact, exposure to heat can be deadly for pugs whose nearly nonexistent snouts make them more susceptible to heatstroke.
President William J. Clinton (archival): If we fail to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, deadly heat waves and droughts will become more frequent, coastal areas will flood and economies will be disrupted.
While heatwaves are an annual occurrence in India, global warming has meant recent heat waves are hotter and as a result more deadly.
The poorest — the 1.3 billion in developing countries who depend on wood and dried dung as primary cooking and heating fuels, smoke from which kills 4 million and temporarily debilitates hundreds of millions every year — will be condemned to more generations of poverty and its deadly consequences.
That heat has contributed to deadly heat waves, more severe droughts and extended the reach of wildfires.
Bjorn Lomborg wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal titled «An Overheated Climate Alarm» which claims that cold temperatures are more deadly than heat, following the publication of the US Global Change Research Program's (US GCRP) overview of the impact of climate change on public health: [14]
«Deadly heat waves are going to be a much bigger problem in the coming decades,» warned CNN in a report last June, «becoming more frequent and occurring over a much greater portion of the planet.»
Heat waves are the most deadly of any weather related events — more than hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes combined.
The monsoon arrives in Goa, India: More heat and moisture can be a deadly mix.
The IPCC scientists predict that because of global warming the future will bring more and deadlier extreme weather of all kinds: more hurricanes, tornadoes, downpours, heat waves, droughts and blizzards.
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.
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
The heat wave was surely largely only a deadly event in the statistics in so far as it affected people already weakened severely by other factors, and even that only because of inadequate air conditioning, which might consume a lot of energy, but would do an awful lot more good than trying to lower Northern European summer temperatures through lower CO2.