Sentences with phrase «more heat waves»

Higher emissions will lead to higher temperatures that will bring more heat waves, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels.

And even a mild temperature increase will likely mean more heat waves and higher sea - level rise and so on.

Increasing temperatures and more heat waves threaten public health, agriculture, forests, water resources, and political stability.

That share could amount to tens of millions, if not billions, of dollars to help cover the cost of more heat waves, wildfires, droughts, intense precipitation, and floods.

It's getting hot in here, and a hotter planet means more heat waves.

Actually Fan we are not seeing more heat waves and mortality from heat waves is on the decline.

In fact, it would be unusual if all the carbon that humans are pumping out didn't cause more heat waves, said Ted Shepherd, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in England.

Scientists are surer that the Earth has experienced more heat waves caused by global warming.

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

Research published in 2013 found a trend towards more heat waves in Australia between 1951 and 2008.

In the future, Europe will suffer from more heat waves as well as extreme rainfall, presenting new challenges for planners and health care services.

A U.N. panel of climate scientists has said the Earth is set for more heat waves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels from melting ice sheets that could swamp coasts as greenhouse gases built up in the atmosphere.

The Convention sets a goal of avoiding «dangerous» man - made damage to the climate to avert more heat waves, downpours, floods, extinctions of animals and plants and rising sea levels.

In the years ahead, we are likely to see reduced water supplies, more forest fires than in previous decades, changes in crop production, more heat waves afflicting our cities and a greater intensity in storms.

CSE climate researchers say more heat waves were expected as globally temperatures had risen by an average 0.8 degrees in the past 100 years.

This study follows on the heels of a recently leaked draft of an Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change report, which noted that scientists believe we are experiencing more heat waves because of climate change — which yes, we're still sure humans are causing.

Increase in temperature means an increase in heating which means there will be more heat wave days and more reasons for occurrence of dust storm and thunderstorms.

Hotter temperatures also pose threats directly to human health, including more heat waves, worsening air and water quality, and increases in infectious diseases.

Climate change will bring more heat waves to U.S. cities, upping risk to poor and elderly, a new report argues

High temperatures at night could cause more heat wave - related deaths, since city dwellers can find no relief.

The increasing severity of Australian heat waves are part of a long - term global trend towards more heat waves and hot weather in many regions, a trend that is very likely influenced by human - driven climate change.

Last month, almost 200 nations agreed at a summit in Paris to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions this century to limit rising temperatures blamed for causing everything from more heat waves to downpours.

Lower latitudes will likely experience more heat waves, heavier precipitation, and stronger (but perhaps less frequent) hurricanes and typhoons.

It is one of cause and effect — more carbon expelled from power plants results in more heat waves, super storms like Hurricane Sandy, and respiratory diseases like asthma caused by toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.

Facing the likelihood of more heat waves and heavier rainfall, officials are trying to plan for a future that could strain the city's infrastructure.

There are more floods, more droughts, more heat waves, more extreme precipitation events.

Overall, farmers were much less concerned about climate change risks — like fewer winter chill hours for trees, more heat waves and increased flooding.

In the southern parts of the country, decreasing rainfall and more heat waves and droughts are already affecting farmers.

And more heat waves mean more illness and death, as the normally cool Bay Area lacks air conditioners on the scale seen in other parts of the country, the group said.

We are both having fun and it is cheap and AIR CONDITIONED which is why we joined, to exercise during the summer... there are more and more heat waves these days, and it is also 24 hours which is good for our schedule... it doesn't have to be «the ultimate gym», it suits our needs.

As much as I prefer sunshine, the rainy forecast has me hopeful that there are no more heat waves coming.

Please no more heat waves!

Just within the next fifty years, there will be more heat waves, higher summer temperatures, fewer cold winters, and rising sea levels.

Basically, the only certain thing is we will have more heat waves and less cold days.

The effects of higher temperatures include rising sea levels, disappearing Arctic sea ice, more heat waves, and declining yields of food crops.

Very likely more heat waves and heavy rains.

Over the last 10 - years, farmers in California have experienced the symptoms of climate change — less winter chill, crops blooming earlier, more heat waves and years of drought when the state baked in record temperatures.

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).

The spike in temperatures in 1998 may also have contributed for several years to reduced government attention to climate change, which has been linked to more heat waves, floods, downpours and rising sea levels.

The intense heat wave sweeping across India could be another manifestation of an extreme weather event, a green body on Thursday said, warning that more heat waves were in the offing due to rise in global temperatures.

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.

Although warming is expected to lead to more heat waves, it is not clear whether the variability — difference between high temperatures and low temperatures — will change.