Sentences with phrase «odds of extreme events»

That said, it is going to be discussed as if it were an attribution study — that global warming raised the odds of this extreme event.

Not exact matches

Still, the odds of seeing such an extreme event have changed, she says.

The WWA analysis factored in both types of changes, examining how warming changed the odds of such an extreme event using three independent methods.

Just days later, a real - time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent — a small, but clear, effect, the scientists say.

Such mixed results aren't unusual in attribution science, which seeks to look for the causes, whether climate change or natural fluctuations, that change the odds of extreme weather events.

According to research from Purdue University, hotter, drier conditions and increased odds of extreme weather events associated with climate change may prove fatal for walnut trees, bringing economic consequences to areas across the nation.

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

Other studies have shown that climate change increases the odds of extreme heat events and may make them warmer and longer lasting.

There are now very long odds that human activity is warming the atmosphere; and it is substantially odds - on that this warming is increasing the risk of damaging extreme weather events.

One conclusion there was that while this event bore no human fingerprint, a human - warmed world will see far higher odds of such extremes:

After reading one of my recent pieces examining Pakistani flooding and Russian heat in the context of climate change, Steven Sherwood, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, offered a variant on this idea, noting that — for heat particularly — the severity of extreme events will change along with the odds:

According to Climate Communication, «All weather events are now influenced by climate change because all weather now develops in a different environment than before... climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.»

The independently - funded group used new modelling to look at the odds of extreme heat events occurring, with and without man - made emissions.

The NewYork Times: With one week left for the U.N. climate change talks to conclude, developed and developing countries remain at odds on how to solve the crisis being linked to the recent spate of extreme weather events that have claimed lives and destroyed property worth billions of dollar.

Global warming has obviously made temperatures warmer, on average, which in turn has increased the odds of extreme heat events.

With weather@home we can investigate how the odds of extreme weather events change due to man - made climate change and natural climate variability.

US science advisor John Holdren refers to a «growing body of evidence» as he explained why extreme weather events in northern mid-latitudes may be linked to anthropogenic global warming, saying he believed the «odds are good» that this will occur more frequently in future.