Sentences with phrase «more extreme heat»

And cities everywhere face risks including more frequent and more extreme heat waves and increasing heavy downpours.

Though the report still says, rightly, that any specific weather event can not be solely tied to climate change — be it the totally unseasonable snowfall that hit the Northeast this past weekend, the devastating flooding in Thailand, etc. — but that scientists now are 99 % certain that climate change will cause more extreme heat waves, fewer extreme spells of cold weather, and more intense downpours.

Numerous scientific studies... show that if heat - trapping emissions continue unabated, global warming is likely to cause more extreme heat in our cities, severe water shortages, loss of species, hazards to coasts from sea level rise, and extreme weather.

The more extreme the heat wave, the more likely it is due to the change in the climate.

For example, the mid west has become increasingly warmer since the industrial revolution, experiencing more extreme heat and drought.

More extreme heat raises the risk of heat - related illnesses, like heat exhaustion, and allows insects to move into new areas, potentially increasing the spread of vector - borne diseases.

An increased variance would lead to more extreme heat and cold.

Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold.

More extreme heat will increase the threat of heat - related illness such as heat stroke.

Not exact matches

When it does, extreme heat and pressure caused by plowing through the air at more than 15,000 mph will destroy the roughly 9.4 - ton vessel.

«There is nothing more extreme than sea temperatures of 38 degrees, outside air temperatures in the 40's and 50's and suffocating heat and humidity deep in the hulls of live export vessels literally cooking animals alive.»

Many people see heat as more of an annoyance than a threat, but climate change, extreme heat and human health are entwined.

This lightweight pizza stone from Cuisinart is made from cordierite, a stone - like material that is more resistant to thermal shock than ceramic — it won't crack in extreme heat or cold.

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 climate, of course, continues to vary around the increased averages, and extremes have changed consistently with these averages — frost days and cold days and nights have become less common, while heat waves and warm days and nights have become more common.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports a University of Arizona - led team.

«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and changes to heat storage will lead to changes in weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

Public health will suffer as heat waves become more frequent and intense, rising seas inundate coastal cities, extreme storms lead to more deaths and catastrophic wildfires burn more forests and reduce air quality.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

Unfortunately, the same materials that provide elasticity deteriorate faster in extreme heat and extreme cold, conditions that have become more frequent with climate change.

«We know climate change is creating more days of extreme heat, putting more people at risk for death in the coming decades,» says first author Elisaveta P. Petkova, project director at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Each nation has employed its own methodology for maintenance and repairs, but new, daunting challenges created by climate change — extreme heat, extreme cold, and severe flooding — require yet more rigorous solutions.

Climate forecasts indicate that the Southern High Plains will become drier with more frequent extreme heat events and decreased precipitation.

While the number of extreme - heat days projected for that region was even worse than for South Asia, Eltahir says the impact in the latter area could be vastly more severe.

In the absence of efforts to curtail those emissions, should we expect more heat waves and other extreme weather this summer?

Our study shows is that increases in the number of extreme heat and extreme precipitation events, particularly during summer months, lead to more asthma hospitalizations in Maryland.»

For the first time, using sophisticated tools to measure skin color, blood flow, and temperature, researchers found that patients on the drug who had a very rapid onset of flushing — redness, pain, swelling, and heat to the face — rated the experience far more harshly than patients whose skin changed gradually, even to the point of extreme redness or change in temperature over time.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

Is a pulled hamstring more common in extreme heat?

Events like record - setting heat, extreme rainfall and drought will happen more frequently around the world even if global climate targets are met, new research suggests.

That heat is raising global sea levels, disrupting ecosystems and leading to more extreme weather events.

The elderly and the very young are especially vulnerable to extreme heat events, which are poised to become more frequent and intense (ClimateWire, June 14).

When it comes to extreme weather Japan's population have more on their minds than a repeat of last summer's record - breaking temperatures, when some 170 died from heat stroke.

«Summer storm weakening leads to more persistent heat extremes.»

The reduced day - to - day variability that we observed makes weather more persistent, resulting in heat extremes on monthly timescales.

Stone, B., J. J. Hess, and H. Frumkin, 2010: Urban form and extreme heat events: Are sprawling cities more vulnerable to climate change than compact cities?

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

The scientists plan to conduct further research in order to collect more data on various environmental conditions that include drought and extreme heat.

There's also evidence that as it wobbles, it can get stuck out of kilter, which can lead to more persistent weather extremes, including heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and flooding.

That extreme heat could lead to more deadly heat waves, wildfires and other climate - related disasters.

Across the globe in recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of hot extremes, particularly very warm nights.1 Hot days have also been hotter and more frequent.2 Since 1950 the number of heat waves has increased and heat waves have become longer.3

Winters have been warming more rapidly than summers, and while less extreme cold sounds appealing, the future effects of blistering summer heat are expected to outweigh the benefits of milder winters.

They show that across the planet there will be more extremes of heat, rain or snow due to global warming.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

The U.S. will likely face the effects of human - induced climate change including rising seas and more frequent bouts of extreme heat.