Sentences with phrase «more severe weather events»

For a coral atoll nation, sea level rise and more severe weather events loom as a growing threat to our entire population.

But as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical global and regional trends of a climatic shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears of more frequent / larger weather disasters as a result of CO2 or global / regional «warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.

when they say in the IPCC that «Climate Change is contributing to more severe weather events.»

While average temperatures warm, the key impact is disruption: more severe weather events, extremes of temperature at both ends, unbalanced rainfall.

The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

Since July 1, my county has experienced even more severe weather events.

Not exact matches

With bettors bailing on the Cowboys, severe weather everywhere and extremely low NFL totals, this weekend is looking more like an episode of «The Twilight Zone» than a collection of sporting events.

People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to the effects of climate change, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher.

Meteorologists in both the public and private sector have shown there is something that can be done through investment in enhanced warning infrastructure and more awareness of severe weather events.

«Supercells are more prone to produce severe weather events, including damaging straight line winds and large hail,» said Sarah Stough, a UAH graduate student in atmospheric science.

Extreme climate and weather events such as record high temperatures, intense downpours and severe storm surges are becoming more common in many parts of the world.

Higher temperatures make extreme weather events more likely and far more severe.

Shutdown or substantial slowdown of the AMOC, besides possibly contributing to extreme end - Eemian events, will cause a more general increase of severe weather.

Red areas indicate locations where fire weather conditions are becoming increasingly more severe or anomalously severe weather events are becoming more frequent, while blue areas indicate locations where climatic influences on fire potential are lessening or weather events are becoming less frequent.

For those living in areas that experience consistent severe weather events, adding storm - protection upgrades like storm - proof windows or wind - resistant garage doors to your house can decrease your premiums while shielding you from more damage.

More severe and / or frequent extreme weather events and / or hazard types are projected to increase losses and loss variability in various regions and challenge insurance systems to offer affordable coverage while raising more risk - based capital, particularly in developing countrMore severe and / or frequent extreme weather events and / or hazard types are projected to increase losses and loss variability in various regions and challenge insurance systems to offer affordable coverage while raising more risk - based capital, particularly in developing countrmore risk - based capital, particularly in developing countries.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

The British Hydrological Society's Chronology of extreme weather events shows all too clearly that we have had (in the U.K.) much more severe flooding in Britain, and long before the recent warming trend set in, for centuries past.

We live in a very benign age and your assertion Elsewhere that severe weather events are becoming more frequent are simply not supported by the observations we can trace back a thousand years.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

I suggest you get the available information about the time - dependent frequency of severe weather events so you can challenge these claims that we are currently experiencing more of them.

More specifically, changes in our climate may affect severe weather events, agricultural productivity, risk of vector - borne infectious diseases, and extinctions of higher level species due to loss of habitat.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

Scientists have already linked global warming to an increase in extreme weather events, meaning systems like this hurricane season's superstorms — Harvey, Maria, and Irma — are going to get more severe and more frequent.

Carbon Brief mapped studies of extreme weather events around the world and found that 63 % of those studied were made more likely or more severe by human - caused climate change.

It is completely logical for policy makers today to support the building of infrastructure (dams, sewers, electrical distribution systems, etc.) that will provide for adequate fresh water retention and for flood control in the event that future weather conditions are somewhat more severe that are being experienced today.

These profound changes to the Arctic system have coincided with a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters.

A new report from Environment Missouri presents data on U.S. federally - declared weather disasters from 2006 to 2011, and says climate change will make extreme weather events like droughts and storms more common — and more severe.

The scope and impacts of climate change — including rising seas, more damaging extreme weather events, and severe ecological disruption — demand that we consider all possible options for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions — including their respective costs and timelines for implementation.

Research has shown that extreme weather events, such as droughts, will become more frequent in the future due to climate change, although it was found to have «not [been] a major influence» on a severe drought in southeastern Brazil in 2014 - 15.

Out of the devastation rose a renewed determination to make the city more resilient in the face of severe weather events.

Computer programmers purposefully coded the climate model simulations to produce ENSO events that increased both in frequency and intensity, with stronger El Niños leading to more severe weather results.

Many societies have taken measures to cope with historical weather extremes, but new, more intense extremes have the potential to overwhelm existing human systems and structures.18 More frequent and more severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water managemmore intense extremes have the potential to overwhelm existing human systems and structures.18 More frequent and more severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water managemMore frequent and more severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water managemmore severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water managemmore likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water management.

More frequent and severe weather events may further stress bird populations.

Climatologists forecast that severe weather events are likely to become more common as climate change advances.

While scientists have long stated that it is difficult to connect a single weather event — such as a single flood or drought — directly to climate change, the patterns of more frequent and severe weather worldwide is directly in line with climate change expectations.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

But it's hard to see how an insurance company can have had more success than «the world's 2500 top climate scientists» at isolating the effect of climate change on the occurrence of severe weather events.

It's certainly hard to see how an insurance company can have had more success than «the world's 2500 top climate scientists» at isolating the effect of climate change on the occurrence of severe weather events.

Thus we might have expected any signal of such an event in the simulations to be more prominent and easier to detect than if we had investigated less severe and / or shorter lived weather phenomena.

Certain consequences of global warming are now inevitable, including sea level rise, more frequent and severe heat waves, growing wildfire risks, and an increase in extreme weather events.

Extreme weather events like heat waves, heavy rains and drought are becoming more common and more severe.

While it can not be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.

Keep in mind that as carbon dioxide increases, temperatures also increase, rainfall patterns change, and some kinds of extreme weather events become more common and severe.

Last summer, we predicted that come this winter, any type of severe weather event was going to be linked to pernicious industrial activity (via global warming) through a new mechanism that had become a media darling — the loss of late summer / early fall Arctic sea ice leading to more persistent patterns in the jet stream.

Severe weather events are becoming more frequent, creating major budget pressures for national governments, especially those in the developing world.

Strong scientific evidence shows that global warming is increasing certain types of extreme weather events, including heat waves, coastal flooding, extreme precipitation events, and more severe droughts.

Claims that specific fires (and forest and wildfires overall) are due to human greenhouse gases have routinely been made since the 1988 testimony of NASA's top climate scientist, James Hansen, predicted that rapid and accelerating warming from GHG emissions would cause more severe and frequent weather events.

The world community now understands that humankind everywhere is likely to experience more severe and more frequent extreme weather events in the years, decades and, perhaps even, centuries to come.

Re: «With regards to the perception (and damage statistics) that severe weather events seem more frequent and more severe over the past decade, there are several factors in play.