Sentences with phrase «more deadly heat waves»
That extreme heat could lead to more deadly heat waves, wildfires and other climate - related disasters.
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Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.
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.
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.
That heat has contributed to deadly heat waves, more severe droughts and extended the reach of wildfires.
«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 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.