Sentences with phrase «of extreme events like»

Those figures don't include damages from the increased threat of extreme events like hurricanes because there the certainty is a bit lower.

«If, as many believe, a warming climate causes a rise in the intensity of extreme events like Hurricane Katrina, we're likely to see an increase in tree mortality, resulting in an elevated release of carbon by impacted forest ecosystems.»

Scientists cite several statistical indicators that suggest the number of extreme events like heat waves and floods is rising.

As Judith observed in # 16, the emotional impact of extreme events like Katrina has been sometimes perceived as a good occasion for incriminating GHGs and changing our mind about them.

Not exact matches

One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

Climate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or tornados.

Organizations like Nuru Intl., which seeks to help end extreme poverty, hold campus events where students walk with a five - gallon bucket filled with water for a certain amount of time or distance.

I find that so many people go to extremes after events like holidays and commit themselves to restrictive diets or resolve to follow some type of extreme diet plan.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

The researchers also looked at other extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur more often as global temperatures increased.

The authors suggest that developing greater resilience to extreme weather events must be given greater priority if the socioeconomic impact of storms, like those that have ravaged Britain this winter, is to be reduced.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

Playing the climate blame game The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science.

The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.

«In the future, new, giant radio telescopes like FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) and SKA (Square Kilometre Array) will allow us to make even more detailed observations of these extreme and exciting events,» concludes Jun Yang.

But few of these studies have taken extreme events like the 1995 drought into account.

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.

Researchers have been trying for some time to determine how much of a connection exists between climate change and extreme events like downpours.

«We found that most black swan events were caused by things like extreme climate or disease, and often an unexpected combination of factors,» Anderson says.

To predict the effects of these extreme events, scientists need to better understand how forests work normally — and for ecologists like Stephenson, that means figuring out why trees die.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

The scientists found an extreme rainfall event that would normally happen once every 100 years (i.e. there's a one per cent risk of it occurring in any given year) is now happening more like once in 80 years (or a 1.25 per cent risk).

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are applying atmospheric science research capabilities to improve our understanding of long - term weather trends and better predict extreme weather events like these — and it all starts with studying clouds.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

This, scientists say, is potentially very good news, as we could use the barrier to protect Earth from extreme space weather resulting from events like coronal mass ejections — huge explosions on the sun, where plasmas and magnetic field are ejected from its corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere.

Some of the new interest in kettlebell training is due to the extreme strength training found in sports like CrossFit, Highland Games competitions, and Strongest Man / Woman events.

Honestly, though, Cargo feels a lot like the acclaimed comic book series Y: The Last Man, primarily because of how it builds its world fast and then focuses on the humans swept up in these mostly unexplained, extreme events.

One in 4 children experiences a mental health disorder annually, 73 and half of those who will have a mental health disorder at some point in their life will first be diagnosed at age 14 or younger.74 Furthermore, about half of all children will experience a traumatic event — such as the death of a parent, violence, or extreme poverty — before they reach adulthood.75 And as the opioid epidemic continues to grow, students are coming to school affected by a parent's addiction as well as the havoc and instability that it can wreak on family life.76 In addition, as students experience other issues — such as puberty; family matters, like divorce; and bullying — having supportive trained adults to talk to in school is critical for improving their well - being and attention to learning.

Based on real personalities like Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy's Jewish Secretary of State and spymaster, and on historical facts and events ranging from an African - American spy network to the dramatic self - destruction of the city of Richmond, All Other Nights is a gripping and suspenseful story of men and women driven to the extreme limits of loyalty and betrayal.

Ability to Trade Real Time — In contrast to the notion above of buying and holding, in the event of personal need or an extreme market situation, an ETF can be bought or sold instantaneously just like a stock, whereas a mutual fund is often not executed for the next day or two based on the price at close of trading.

But I like the idea of a small deferred annuity to insure against the extreme tail event of living into my 90s.

Some of these include the likes of opioids (e.g. morphine) which are more commonly prescribed in the event of extreme distress.

• Tend to occur in seizure - prone breeds (e.g. beagle, Bernese mountain dog, etc.) • Often develop around puberty (8 - 10 months old); usually before 2 years of age • Discernible pre-ictal mood change (e.g. depressed, irritable or flat mood) • Behavioral event is often sudden in onset and bout - like — though bouts may cluster into a lengthy sequence • Behavior is often extreme, irrational, apparently unprovoked • Behavioral event may be triggered by stress or an environmental event (noise, flashing light) • May be associated with autonomic signs (salivation, urination, anal gland discharge) • Post-ictal depression / unresponsive or even aggression

It is understandable to extreme / winter sports fans to see companies like Red Bull sponsoring a rider or just having an ad all over an event, but the product placement in Steep makes the game feel as if it the sole purpose of the game is to promote these brands.

What this shows first of all is that extreme heat waves, like the ones mentioned, are not just «black swans» — i.e. extremely rare events that happened by «bad luck».

Use the soon to arrive data regarding Haiyan typhoon, especially the two story high storm surges that acted like tsunami waves as base yardstick of what is possible in the most extreme similar event.

Taking your 75 % number as an example, I think they understand something like this: «75 % of the strength of this extreme event is attributable to global warming», or «There's 75 % chance that this event would not have occurred without global warming».

Blocking highs are only one part of the story — many extreme events caused by prolonged weather patterns are not associated with blocking highs, but rather very wavy jet patterns and / or cut - off lows (like blocking highs but in the opposite flow direction).

This is exactly what Climate Change looks like as it's IMPACTS are happening in the real world (versus in the scientific theory papers)-- all kind sof unexpected unplanned for extreme events and a built infrastructure and building not up to the extreme demands of topdays extreme weather events across an entire Continent.

But it's like I say: as planetary climate systems show all possible signs of disruption, what we get is strange climatic conditions and extreme weather events on a local level, and these conditions and event are conditioned by great variations from continent to continent and from one year to the next.

A couple of years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established a «Climate Scene Investigation» strike team tasked with quickly assessing the causes of extreme events — mega downpours, off - the - chart heat waves and the like.

These are events that appear again and even more intensively in the middle of the troubled climate of the greenhouse effect, an extreme event like this is one instance where a dramatic climate change can seem real».

It's nice to have this particular discussion in the context of a pleasant example like this video, because in many other cases extreme climate events have resulted in acute humanitarian disasters.

The also found that extreme weather events, like a very hot summer in 2010 and a very cold winter in 2011, were correlated with increased miscarriages of male fetuses, while female fetuses seemed to be able to withstand the disruption.

That means when something like extreme weather events reduce crops and / or cause people to ban exports, then the price of food has to run up pretty high to have an impact on demand, which is devastating to poor people.