Environment ministers and their representatives from 29 countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in climate negotiations will meet in Berlin for two days starting July 14 even as increasing instances
of unprecedented heat waves and cold winters illuminate the urgent need for a global plan to counter climate change.
A 4 °C world would be one
of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and major floods in many regions, with serious impacts on ecosystems and associated services.
Meteorologists used royal purple to denote an off - the - charts high temperature of 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), part
of an unprecedented heat wave and ongoing wildfires occurring down under this month.
Not exact matches
But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically,
unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts
of fuel for the flames.
In 2010, for example, one - fifth
of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with
heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and
unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.
One paper found that a 2016 marine
heat wave off the coast
of Alaska was
unprecedented in terms
of the temperatures it reached and concluded that it would not have been possible in a world where human - caused climate change was not occurring.
Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition,
unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss
of biodiversity.
The Russian
heat wave was
unprecedented in terms
of records going back 140 years.
Enemies deal
unprecedented punishment on contact,
heat waves rise off
of prolific amounts
of magma, and the overall atmosphere is oppressive.
Just the other day I posted evidence that the recent runup in US
heat waves, seen in the context
of the last 100 years or so, is hardly
unprecedented, a local effect paralleled by similar run - ups in the past.
By 2010 impacts long predicted were turning up, sooner than many had expected — acidification
of the oceans,
unprecedented deadly
heat waves, record - breaking floods and droughts,
heat - related changes in the survival
of sensitive species.
With the
unprecedented destruction in the aftermath
of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, Katia, and Maria, two recent earthquakes in Mexico, catastrophic flooding in Asia, record - breaking
heat waves in California, and raging wildfires across the West, we are witnessing the new normal
of catastrophic climate change.
Analyses show that human - induced climate change has generally increased the probability
of heat waves.1, 2 And prolonged (multi-month) extreme
heat has been
unprecedented since the start
of reliable instrumental records in 1895.
5.3.4 In Europe, wide ranging impacts
of changes in current climate have been documented: retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons, shifts in the geographic spread
of species, and health impacts due to an
unprecedented heat wave.
Cities in the Netherlands and throughout Europe suffered through an
unprecedented and deadly
heat wave in the summer
of 2003.
A 2013 follow up report, which focused on impacts
of climate change on Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia; tells us that if the world warms by 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years — there will be widespread food shortages,
unprecedented heat -
waves, and more intense storms.
«Record high ocean temperatures were experienced along the Western Australian coast during the austral summer
of 2010/2011... This
heat wave was an
unprecedented thermal event in Western Australian waters, superimposed on an underlying long - term temperature rise.»
The Russian
heat wave of 2010, for example, was
unprecedented in scale, as were the concurrent floods in Pakistan and the subsequent floods in 2011.
Close on the heels
of these
unprecedented high temperatures in Russia was the 2011
heat wave in Texas, a leading U.S. agricultural state.
Heading into the summer
of 2017, California's energy markets witnessed
unprecedented heat waves, resulting in a very high number
of calls, which signaled a need for resources that could act quickly to increase energy supply or reduce demand in order to prevent widespread blackouts.
An
unprecedented heat wave gripped the United States in the summer
of 1988.
By Bobby Magill / Wunderground, published: August 15, 2013: Devastating drought in the Southwest,
unprecedented wildfire activity, scorching
heat waves and other extreme weather are often cited as signs
of a changing climate.
We're being hit by more and more multi-billion dollar climate & weather disasters like hurricane Sandy, the recent Great Plains
heat waves and (most likely) ongoing «
unprecedented» flooding in Colorado — disasters pushed beyond their natural variability by the changing conditions
of our new climate.
An
unprecedented heat wave in Russia With smoke from burning peat - bogs clogging the muggy air, the
heat in Moscow on August 6 broke the «psychological barrier»
of 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit.