Sentences with phrase «only on extreme events»

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There began to be the sense that events could be influenced only by large - scale, remote economic or governmental forces, or by extreme political initiatives on the right or on the left.

«However, our data covers timeframes spanning centuries and millennia — we can't zoom in on just a handful of years, which means we can only draw indirect conclusions regarding the extreme events that shape weather,» explains climate researcher Rehfeld, who is currently pursuing research with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

It ranks extreme weather events as second only to international conflicts, with natural catastrophes, not acting on climate change and water crises all featuring in the top 10.

According to ClimateWise, a global network of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive year on record due to natural disasters and extreme weather events all over the globe, but over the past decade only 30 % of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap of $ 1.7 trillion.

EUCLEIA, a european project that ended this year, did not only explore many of the challenges and limitations of extreme event attribution but in particular fostered and strengthened a scientific community that will live on in other projects for the coming years.

This entertainment event, set in a future of advanced technology where man and machine meet on a vast salt plain to turn deadly battle into extreme sport, resides only in the ever - growing world of PlayStation Home.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

While those natural disasters in the United States play only a small role in the World Meterological Organization's (WMO) report on extreme weather events in 2011, there is a tendency to try to link the underlying weather patterns to changes in the global climate.

It is instructive to compare these numbers with those characteristic of a set of the years during 1979 — 2012 with no or only one major regional extreme event (in terms of land surface temperature and land precipitation anomalies) in the NH midlatitudes, from late April / early May to late September / early October, as reported yearly since 1993 in the World Meteorological Organization statements on the status of the global climate (see also ref.

More extreme precipitation events (with 3 - hour duration) so intense than in the past they would be exceeded on average only once every 10 years are projected to occur on average three times as often in future in Metro Vancouver and about three and a half times as often in future in CRD.

Researchers looked at what would happen if a comparable extreme - heat event settled on five major U.S. cities, learning that not only would the country experience massive blackouts, but thousands of people could die.

In our view, this type of deals only serves as a band - aid on a very serious issue because they can not prevent Haiti from being hit by climate change influenced weather events such as extreme floods or severe hurricanes.

The blanket - exemption treatment is based on increasingly questionable assertions that wind turbines reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that supposedly cause global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and an amazing number of dog, people, Italian pasta, prostitution and other exaggerated or imaginary problems, plus others that exist only in computer models whose forecasts and scenarios bear no resemblance to Real World conditions or events.

Summary of how they got to this finding: They use CMIP models which, if not outright flawed, have not proved their validity in estimated temperature levels in the 2030 to 2070 timeframe, are used as the basis for extrapolations that assert the creation of more and more 3 - sigma «extreme events» of hot weather; this is despite the statistical contradiction and weak support for predicting significant increases in outlier events based on mean increases; then, based on statistical correlations between mortality and extreme heat events (ie heat waves), temperature warming trends are conjured into an enlargement of the risks from heat events; risks increase significantly only by ignoring obvious adjustments and mitigations any reasonable community or person would make to adapt to warmer weather.