Sentences with phrase «more extreme heat waves»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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-.

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

From heat waves to downpours, a number of extreme weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.

Scorching summertime heat waves in Europe, Asia and North America, as well as extreme cold snaps in central Asia, have become more likely because of changes in the way air is flowing over those regions, a new study detailed in the journal Nature suggests.

While natural variability continues to play a key role in extreme weather, climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making heat waves more frequent and more intense.

In this case, the scientists looked at how much more likely the extreme temperatures recorded across Europe were during this heat wave because of warming, and found clear indications that it upped the odds.

So in this sense, the 2002 drought and associated heat waves were more extreme than the earlier droughts, because the impact of the low rainfall was exacerbated by high potential evaporation (Karoly et al., 2003; Nicholls, 2004).

More deaths from heat waves can be modelled just as well as fewer deaths from extreme cold.

When discussing extreme weather and climate, tornadoes should not be conflated with the other extreme weather events for which the connection is considerably more straightforward and better documented, including deluges, droughts, and heat waves.

I've shown before that the typical European winter gets far more weather - attributed deaths than the extreme heat wave of 2003, so it only stands to reason that GW is saving far more lives in Europe than it is taking, right?

As to climate change and its impacts on storms and floods, the IPCC and NOAA among many other top scientific groups have indicated that climate change will result in more extreme weather events, including heat waves, wildfires, storms and floods.

Are the heat waves really getting more extreme?

The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.

Warming over land can have multiple effects, including melting of mountain glaciers, spread of deserts in continental interiors, greater flooding, more frequent heat waves and other extreme weather patterns.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

Some assessments still rely on simple reasoning about how extremes might be expected to change with global warming (e.g., warming could be expected to lead to more heat waves).

Our warming world is, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, increasing heat waves and intense precipitation in some places, and is likely to bring more extreme weather in the future.

The role of climate change in causing extreme heat waves, drastic rainfall, negative impacts on human health and threatened food security have received more attention recently than megadrought.

The effects of temperature extremes on human health have been well documented for increased heat waves, 46,47,48,49 which cause more deaths, 50,51 hospital admissions52, 53,54 and population vulnerability.55, 56

Projections suggest an increase in extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall, more intense storms and heat - waves.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

It finds many significant climate and development impacts are already being felt in some regions, and in some cases multiple threats of increasing extreme heat waves, sea level rise, more severe storms, droughts and floods are expected to have further severe negative implications for the poorest.

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent and intense, with serious consequences for human health and well - being.

Northeast states can expect more climate change related heat waves — with significantly more days above 90 degrees F — and flooding from sea level rise and extreme precipitation events.

As reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would cause the global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.

Evidence suggests that Arctic warming is causing weather patterns to become more persistent, which can lead to extremes such as droughts, cold spells, heat waves, and some flooding events.

For the United States, observations clearly show a declining frequency of extreme weather events, that sea level changes are indistinguishable from geological uplift or sinking processes, and decreased risk of regional water scarcity (due to more frequent winter polar vortices replenishing the water table), heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems.

For example, in IPCC (2007, Fourth Assessment Report — AR4; Summary for policymakers, p. 15), we read (our emphasis): «It is very likely that hot extremes, heat waves and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent».

Communities around the world are feeling these impacts in the form of extreme weather, record drought, heat waves, floods and more.

While the 2003 heat wave was unusual in today's climate, 23 Europe is highly likely to face even hotter summers more often in coming decades.24 Scientists estimate that human activities have already at least doubled the risk of an extreme heat wave.25

The U.S. National Climate Assessment shows that summers are getting hotter, heat waves are lasting longer, and weather is getting more extreme.

Like Hansen et al., Donat and Alexander (2012) found that global warming has made extreme heat waves more likely to occur.

Ironically, people in cold regions can be most vulnerable to heat waves, because they are not acclimated to extremely hot weather, and because buildings designed for cold climates may not offer protection against extreme heat and high humidity.32 The elderly and those who do not have access to air - conditioning will likely be less resilient in the face of more frequent heat waves.19

Stronger and longer heat waves, more frequent extreme weather events such as flooding and tropical cyclones, rises in sea level, and increased air pollution will become more the rule than the exception.

The report's executive summary declares that U.S. heat waves have become more common since the mid-1960s, although acknowledging the 1930s Dust Bowl as the peak period for extreme heat.

Much ado has been made recently in the media and the blogosphere of recent extreme weather events around the world: the flooding in Tennessee and Pakistan, the Moscow heat waves, record drought in the Amazon, and yet more flooding in Queensland and Brazil.