Sentences with phrase «recent extreme events»

Well, the blog's been a tad slow of late, but out in the real world I've enjoyed reading my local - language paper, with comments on recent extreme events by Gavin (in NYT) and particularly Stefan.

Many recent extreme events would have occurred differently or not at all without our recent climate change.

We can already link some of these recent extreme events to climate change.

The report pays particular attention to extreme events in the U.S., where the science of event attribution has evolved significantly, especially in the aftermath of recent extreme events, for example, the recent California drought.

And Dr. Jennifer Francis is back with more research linking Arctic warming to the erratic jet stream we've seen in recent extreme events.

In the light of such recent extreme events, Koike said, cooperation among nations in sharing data is necessary for developing a comprehensive warning system.

The recent «Time» article (13 April 2006), after giving a list of recent extreme events (Cyclone Larry, forest fires in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, etc) presented as being caused by climate change, then states «the serious debate has quietly ended».

Having said that... I remember hearing that analysis of two recent extreme events that affected the UK, [September 2000 floods and 2004 heatwave] shows that these were extreme events an increased risk of which would be consistent with global warming.

Being able to analyze a recent extreme event so clearly might help capture the attention of the public and decisionmakers.

Not exact matches

Slow economic growth, increasing extreme weather events and volatility in capital markets made the insurance business tumultuous in recent years, with employees facing upheaval in their day - to - day roles as well as layoffs.

Recent extreme weather events, such as the flooding in Ontario and Quebec last summer and the forest fires in British Columbia and Alberta, are directly connected to climate change, McKenna says.

In recent years, we have seen events (such as the Credit Crisis) which led to extreme volatility in the financial markets.

The contrarian bettor recognizes that casual bettors make extreme decisions based on small sample sizes, and takes advantages of inflated lines based on recent events.

The recent extreme weather events have highlighted how everyone relies on or uses the UK's transport network daily and it is fundamental to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the community.

He said recent extreme weather like the floods in Gloucestershire had demonstrated the need to ensure back - up systems were «similarly proofed against extreme weather events».

Yet, as recent events have made clear, Vermont is not immune to the risk of extreme violence in our schools or communities.

According to a recent article published in Weatherwise, titled «The Weather and Climate of Arizona,» extreme weather events, ranging from «heat to cold and dryness to floods... dust storms, forest fires, and unparalleled lightning displays» are all too common in Arizona.

The tsunami was at least three times the size of a 1946 tsunami that was the most destructive in Hawaii's recent history, according to the new study that examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred.

«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.

Here we are not dealing with large volcanic eruptions of the size of Pinatubo of Mount St. Helens, here we are talking about extreme events: The Toba caldera in the Sumatra subduction zone in Indonesia originated from one of the largest volcanic eruption in recent Earth history, about 74,000 years ago.

In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the influence of climate change on a variety of recent extreme weather and climate events, including marine heat waves.

But now, for the first time, climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether climate change played a role.

«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and changes to heat storage will lead to changes in weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

In recent years, many studies have sought to unsnarl the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability on extreme weather events (SN: 1/20/18, p. 6).

«What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks.

In recent years, extreme winter weather events such as heavy snowfalls and severe winters have been occurring frequently in regions such as East Asia, North America and Europe.

Kopp noted recent findings have revealed the possibility of even more serious impacts including «ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica to compound extremes, where events occurring simultaneously or in rapid sequence can amplify the risks to both human and natural systems.»

Climatologist John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, emphasized that it was not scientifically defensible to tie the recent droughts or specific extreme weather events to climate change, and highlighted the limitations of historical temperature records.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

Oklahoma has been battered by extreme weather events in recent years and much of the discussion focused on adaptation toward maximizing benefits and minimizing losses for the state.

«We came as close as one can to demonstrating a direct link between climate change and a large family of extreme recent weather events,» said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State.

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.

«We are now able to connect the dots when it comes to human - caused global warming and an array of extreme recent weather events,» said Mann.

To Lenz, voters» obsession with recent events sounded similar to «peak - end» theory, a bias long known to psychologists in which people tend to judge an experience by its extremes and its ending.

«For Bramston Reef, our results revealed that mortality was more recent than previously thought, coinciding with a big flood event and extreme low tide in 1990 - 1991 — but showed some recovery by 2012.

Some of the risks of heat - related sickness and death have diminished in recent decades, possibly due to better forecasting, heat - health early warning systems, and / or increased access to air conditioning for the U.S. population.182, 183 However, extreme heat events remain a cause of preventable death nationwide.

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

Climate extremes: challenges in estimating and understanding recent changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate and weather events [chapter].

Professor Allen will explore the role of human influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.

Monday 27th February, 18.30 - 20.00 Room 1.07 Western Gateway Building Western Road, UCC, Cork Tickets free Eventbrite Professor Allen will explore the role of human influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.

Beyond the long - term record, the past five years have been punctuated by extreme heat events around the globe, the most recent being an

In the face of so many extreme weather events rocking the world in recent weeks, Gerard Butler recently sat down with CinemaBlend and explained what he thinks audiences will take away from Geostorm.

«the [Marfa Myths] festival is perhaps the most extreme example in a recent trend toward intimate, meticulously curated music events» — NY Times

All recent «extreme events» on investigation appear not to be extreme when compared to known events in the past few hundred years before AGW.

Joanna Walters links extreme weather events with climate change in a recent article in the Guardian, however, some reservations have been expressed about such links in past discussions.

Such an elevated temperature would amplify temperature and precipitation extremes enough to make the weather events of recent years look tame in comparison.

The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in - and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»