Sentences with phrase «much higher floods»

Not exact matches

While much of New Brunswick grapples with high water levels, a flood of a stinkier sort is also underway.

If a flood but goes above one's head, its absolute elevation becomes a matter of small importance; and when we touch our own upper limit and live in our own highest centre of energy, we may call ourselves saved, no matter how much higher some one else's centre may be.

Rep. Louise Slaughter says blame nature and not the much - derided Plan 2014 for high water levels and flooding along Lake Ontario.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rep. Louise Slaughter says blame nature and not the much - derided Plan 2014 for high water levels and flooding along Lake Ontario.

As Hurricane Sandy continues to threaten much of New York State with high winds, heavy rains, flooding, coastal surges and

For instance, whether UK towns flood more in future depends not just on how high the seas get and how much it rains — which are difficult enough to model — but also on how rivers are managed, whether people build on floodplains and the area of land coated in concrete.

Yet regardless of how much sea - level rise climate change brings, the researchers say careful long - term strategic planning can ensure that development in high - risk flood zones is appropriately designed or avoided.

Less was heard about another set of models that had attempted to predict how high the storm surge would be, a rough guide to how much coastal land might be flooded.

It sent a flood of high - energy radiation towards Earth that lasted much longer than is typical for a gamma - ray burst (GRB).

For probiotics to be a benefit the numbers have to be so high as to flood the intestinal tract with the good bacteria thereby forcing out the bad (there's only so much room).

Speaking of which, wild caught Alaskan salmon is the ultimate form: it's much lower in oemga 6s and higher in natural antioxidants like astaxanthin, compared to the farm grown salmon flooding supermarket shelves.

Sadly, we've had pretty much no snow so far this winter, so it doesn't look like another high water year (good because the river won't flood but bad because, well, we / farmers rely on that water in the hot summer months).

Tornados, floods, high winds, hail, freezing rain, even the possibility of earthquakes makes having the right insurance that much more important.

And living near a river or open water could add significantly to the premium as there is a much higher risk of flooding.

A basement flood in a space that has been upgraded with carpeting, furnishings and electronics can push a claim from $ 5,000 to $ 50,000 or much higher.

On the surface, with the chaotic combat the fighting looks very much along the lines of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series, though PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale doesn't require you to send your opponents flying off the screen to win; instead each character has three super moves that you must use to defeat your opponents, with higher level ones being flashier and more effective, for instance Raiden will transform all of his opponents into cardboard boxes, Dante will shift into his devastating devil incarnation and Big Daddy will flood the stage, slowing down his opponents.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

In 1988, James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who, through much of his career, has pressed elected officials to limit greenhouse gas emissions, constructed «loaded» cardboard dice for a Senate hearing, to illustrate that we were, in essence, tipping the climate system toward ever higher odds of unpleasant events like droughts and flooding rains.

«If we had never created the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the private market would be charging much higher premiums and it would be much more of a deterrent for people living in these places,» says Eileen Fretz, director of flood management at the non-profit, American Rivers.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

Today, we have limits in place for arsenic, mercury and lead, but we let power plants release as much carbon pollution as they want — pollution that is contributing to higher rates of asthma attacks and more frequent and severe floods and heat waves.

This area has now become the cradle of Atlantic depressions, which over the past (and coming) weeks formed the one after the other, coursing for North Europe, bringing much rain, leading to a very mild month of January, melting snows and high river discharges and flooding in parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

and «Where was all the water going to come from» so I decided to have a go and try to work out how much water would be needed to allow the World Ocean to rise by just 1 meter, there are two variables that I can not solve, 1 is that the world is curved so as you go up then you need more water for the next meter than you needed for the preceding meter and this is an exponential issue as it gets worse the higher you go, the other is that even though there are many areas where you could get a large rise without any inland flooding, like the «White Cliffs of Dover» then there are also many areas where there would be massive inland flooding, like Holland, so I had to make two assumptions to kill off two variable issues that I can not solve, so assuming that the world is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an answer.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

Either Houston is incredibly unlucky or the risk of severe flooding is a lot more serious than the FEMA modeling has predicted — and the odds of a flood as bad as the ones Houston has seen for the past few years are actually much higher than 1 in 500.

As a global objective and given the highest priority it is a solution to critical problems of biodiversity loss, much needed development, food security, resilience to drought and flood and greenhouse gas emissions.

«For example, to produce a six - foot flood, if the ocean is a foot higher, you only need as much storm surge as you would have previously needed to produce a five - foot flood,» said Robert Kopp, professor of earth and planetary science at Rutgers university, and one of the authors.

«Once the walls are down and your house is flooded, going to a higher level doesn't change things much.»

Fire, flooding, water damage, electrical issues and plumbing concerns are all much higher if you live around other people.

Tornados, floods, high winds, hail, freezing rain, even the possibility of earthquakes makes having the right insurance that much more important.

Also, if you leave the NFIP, and decide to come back, you can find your rates much higher than when you left if your area has become more risky for floods in recent years.

National statistics show that although New Brunswick is not much of a risk area for some kinds of common storms, high winds still produce many homeowner's claims, and locals need to check floodplains to make sure they don't need additional flood insurance.

Your home or business is at much higher risk of flood than of fire, tornado or other disaster.

The cost of NFIP - provided flood insurance is standard and rates are based on whether or not you are in a high - risk flood zone and how much coverage you purchase.

If you discover that the home you want is in a flood plain, you need to know what type of flood plain (some ratings indicate higher risks than others), and how much flood insurance will cost.

Generally required in high - risk flood - prone areas, this insurance is issued by the federal government and provides as much as $ 250,000 in coverage for a single - family home plus $ 100,000 for contents.