Sentences with phrase «more heatwave»

We've seen a trend towards more heatwave days over Australia.

The following chart shows heatwave days per decade from 1950 to 2013, highlighting a trend toward more heatwave days in Australia over time:

With the weather warm throughout most of the country, now is the time to swap out running leggings for more heatwave - friendly running shorts.

Climate change will lead to more heatwaves, droughts and other extreme weather conditions.

Climate scientists have long warned that global warming will lead to more heatwaves, droughts and floods.

Costs would be from more heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels.

Decades of climate change bring risks that people will accept higher temperatures, with more heatwaves, downpours and droughts, as normal and complicate government plans to do more to cut emissions of greenhouse gas emissions.

Governments agree they should focus most on cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris agreement rather than on science - fiction - like short - cuts to limit temperatures blamed for causing more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

Anybody arguing that we don't know enough to act is arguing for more data — more drought, more heatwaves, more floods, more food riots, more dead people.

The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

«What it means for the Australian summer is an increased frequency of hot extremes, more hot days, more heatwaves and more extreme bushfire days and that's exactly what we've been seeing typically over the last decade and we will see even more frequently in the future.»

In summer this could also lead to more heatwaves.

Lucy Cadena, climate justice and energy coordinator for Friends of the Earth International, said: «Climate change is upon us, and every increase in temperature causes more heatwaves, droughts and floods, killing thousands of people.

Not exact matches

The U.S. president doubts mainstream findings that climate change will cause more floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

The U.N. panel of climate scientists says the build - up of greenhouse gases is raising temperatures and will bring more floods, droughts, heatwaves, dust storms and rising sea levels.

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New York's diplomatic salons are a long way from the heatwaves and frosts of South Australian farming, of spreading mulch and double and late pruning, of buying more expensive water, of gambling your livelihood on crops and weather and human ingenuity.

Whilst the UK fluctuated between heatwaves and snowstorms in April, overall the monthly averages... [Read More...]

«The current heatwave is unusual due to its extent, with more than 70 per cent of the continent currently experiencing heatwave conditions,» says John Nairn, South Australia's acting regional director for the Bureau of Meteorology, in comments to the Australian Science Media Centre.

According to Rupp's models, such a severe heatwave is now 20 times more likely in a La Niña year than it was in the 1960s, when global temperatures were significantly cooler.

What Welbergen witnessed could be a harbinger of an increasingly dangerous world in which rare weather events such as heatwaves, deluges, droughts and storms become much more common.

No thanks to us: the heatwave was made 35 per cent more likely by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

There have been exceptions: studies have found that the European heatwave in 2003 was twice as likely because of climate change, and that the UK floods in 2000 were also made more likely.

In India, more than 2000 people died in a heatwave caused by a delayed monsoon — an effect of El Niño.

Other studies suggest the probability of deadly heatwaves on this scale will become 5 — 10 times more likely in coming years.

Dr Kennedy says previous studies have shown that if Orbicella annularis contains just a small amount of Symbiodinium D it can sometimes respond better to stress events — such as heatwaves — and is more likely to avoid coral bleaching.

The changing climate could increase insect - borne disease and push up deaths related to heatwaves and pollution, while more floods could lead to depression

More intense heatwaves are in store this century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

They are linked to the heatwave that killed more than 60 in Japan, and the end of the warm spell in western Europe.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought - hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.

Heatwaves already kill tens of thousands of people, and even more will die as the thermostat rises.

A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought - hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.

More recent heatwaves have also been 1 to 2 °C hotter.

A study published by the Climate Council of Australia in 2014 found that heatwaves in Australia are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent.

«Without a doubt, these heatwaves will become more regular,» says Perkins - Kirkpatrick.

As a consequence, deserts will spread and lethal heatwaves will become more frequent.

It's no surprise, but an analysis has predicted deadly heatwaves, more deaths from starvation, and a boom in mosquito - borne diseases thanks to climate change

A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 °C to 5 °C warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the century — all because of the way plants on the ground respond to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Each workshop had a different theme related to climate extremes, had approximately 30 attendees (the CMIP5 meeting had more than 100), and the workshops resulted in a paper.11 The first workshop was held in July 2011, titled Monitoring Changes in Extreme Storm Statistics: State of Knowledge.12 The second was held in November 2011, titled Forum on Trends and Causes of Observed Changes in Heatwaves, Coldwaves, Floods, and Drought.13 The third was held in January 2012, titled Forum on Trends in Extreme Winds, Waves, and Extratropical Storms along the Coasts.14 The fourth, the CMIP5 results workshop, was held in March 2012 in Hawai`i, and resulted in an analysis of CMIP5 results relative to climate extremes in the United States.11

His comments came after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found last week that within two or three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2 degrees, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and extreme weather.

Climate change is already upon us, melting ice, killing forests and making floods and heatwaves more intense.

Atmospheric heatwaves can have significant impacts on human health31 and attribution studies have shown that these events, and atmospheric heatwaves in general, have become much more likely as a result of anthropogenic warming32.

The researchers mapped heat Read more about EXPERT REACTION: The GBR may never fully recover from 2016's heatwave - Scimex

Of course, you'll be seeing me wear my Faye with all of the above and more, but here's a simple easy Summer look we shot taking full advantage of that heatwave.

DRESS: Zara, similar here / / SHIRT: Old Navy / / SHOES: Target, similar here / / BAG: Amazon (more options here) / / LIPS: Nars «Heatwave `

That heatwave just past really got me looking forward to more Fall - like temps!!!

DRESS: Banana Republic (last year, similar here) / / SHOES: Christian Louboutin (similar here under $ 100... and more comfortable too) / / BELT: Target / / CLUTCH: Clare V (similar under $ 50) / / LIPS: Nars «Heatwave»

I'm stocking up on more linen pieces, as they work perfectly for LA's late Summer heatwaves, and often look great for transitioning into Fall.