Sentences with phrase «recent heatwaves»

Given their findings, the researchers also argue it is safe to say that recent heatwaves — like last year's drought in Texas and Oklahoma, Russia's heatwave and wildfires in 2010, and the European heatwave of 2003 — were caused by climate change.

Simply listing some recent heatwaves around the globe is no «study.»

Recent heatwaves and warm winters are unprecedented.

We've just launched another new regional modelling experiment looking at the link between climate change and the recent heatwaves and drought in Australia and New Zealand.

The recent heatwaves and raging bushfires have been a stark reminder of Australia's particular vulnerability to extreme weather events.

More recent heatwaves have also been 1 to 2 °C hotter.

To honour and celebrate the recent heatwave (the longest spell of glorious sunshine for one hundred years or something...) this month's Tea Time Treats will be...

Though they arrived amidst our recent heatwave, I have worn them at every opportunity since!

I was cool, comfy, and not stinky during this recent heatwave, so I can only imaging the warm ones working even better.

We took these photos a couple of weeks ago, before the recent heatwave.

«Media have been falling all over themselves to report the recent heatwave in the East, but have been ignoring the cold spells happening in other parts of the country at virtually the same time.

Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.

While 28 C is a substantial heatwave for Moscow (Average July high: 23.2 C), it is hardly comparable to the 38.2 C July maximum recorded in the most recent heatwave.

And the reverse is also true, he said, talking about the recent heatwave in western Sydney that had broken records.

Not exact matches

We need to figure out if we are the cause of the recent inundation of Bangkok in Thailand and the unseasonal US snowstorms, or last year's floods in Pakistan and heatwave in Russia.

In recent years, Europe and North America have been hit by severe heatwaves, the effects of which are often most extreme in cities.

Several prominent marine heatwaves (MHWs)-- prolonged periods of anomalously high sea surface temperatures1 — have had severe impacts on marine ecosystems in recent years.

Recent prominent marine heatwaves have attracted considerable scientific and public interest.

While marine heatwaves have only started to draw attention in recent years, the increasing intensity, frequency and duration of atmospheric heatwaves have been extensively documented30.

Recent research shows that the overall risk of heat - related illness or death has climbed steadily since 1980, with around 30 % of the world's population now living in climatic conditions that deliver prolonged extreme heatwaves.

However, during the recent Irish heatwave I was craving a refreshing drink.

A new study shows weather patterns have changed in recent decades, making eastern North America, Europe and western Asia more prone to summer heatwaves.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

All of the same content offered in the recent closed beta is available this time around including Team Deathmatch and Warpath game modes playable on the multiplayer maps Heatwave and Infernal.

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.

[12] Extreme and unprecedented heatwaves have occurred in recent years worldwide, including Europe in 2003, Russia in 2010 and several regions in the south and central US in 2011 and 2012.

Recent record hot summers and significant heatwaves were also made much more likely by humans» effect on the climate.

DarkMath @ 45, the highest values in the US Heatwave Index are found in (in decreasing order of intensity) 1936, 1934, 1931 and 1930, with the values of 1936 and 1934 in particular, being significantly greater than any other including recent years:

While heatwaves are an annual occurrence in India, global warming has meant recent heat waves are hotter and as a result more deadly.

A second study of heatwaves over recent decades in India has established a link between extremes of heat, climate change and mass death.

In fact, as Mr Joshi showed, south eastern Australia's wind farms were generating about 710MW at the time of the peak electricity demand for the week of the recent January heatwave; much of this was coming from SA's wind farms.

In - fact, numerous recent studies are calling for such heatwaves to be 4 times as frequent and as much as 5 - 10 degrees F. hotter by 2050 no matter what we do on carbon emissions before then.

Other studies show intensifying heatwaves in the Alps, as well as more droughts in recent decades.

It is too early to say much about such a recent episode but various studies have attributed earlier individual heatwaves or drought to global warming, notably those in Europe in 2003, Russia [continue reading...]

says Pielke of *** DELETEhis colleagues **** efforts to discern global warming «fingerprints» on RECENT INDIVIDUAL events such heatwaves, droughts, floods and hurricanes.

The recent Australasian heatwave has been so unprecedented that the Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new colour (purple) to represent the hottest region: [more]

In the more extreme instances, heatwaves during recent years have featured an ominous capacity to hospitalize tens of thousands.

A recent study by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that of the 164,000 who perished when the thermometer dropped or climbed to catastrophic levels, in the last 20 years, 148,000 died during heatwaves, and 90 % of these deaths were in Europe.

An as yet unpublished paper by NASA climatologist James Hansen and others makes the case that recent extreme heat events, such as Russia's 2010 deadly heatwave and last year's extreme drought in Texas, are directly linked to our warming planet.

Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper surveys recent studies of climate change and extreme weather and finds «strong evidence» of a link between a warming world and the frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and heatwaves — such as the one that turned winter into summer in the U.S.

This was the day during the recent record breaking heatwave in which Melbourne recorded its highest January temperature, 43.9 °.

While climate change can be cited for making events like recent US heatwaves and the ongoing extreme drought more likely, what's the science behind the current drought conditions?

Using monthly means as a proxy for heatwaves Coumou et al. (2013) and Hansen et al. (2012) indicate that record - breaking temperatures in recent decades substantially exceed what would be expected by chance but caution is required when making inferences between these studies and those that deal with multi-day events and / or use more complex definitions for heatwave events

This compares unfavourably with the 38 degrees C in the shade in Moscow in the recent Russian heatwave.

A recent rise in deadly, debilitating, and expensive heatwaves was caused by climate change, argues a new statistical analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Meanwhile, a flood of new research has convincingly connected a rise in extreme weather events, especially droughts and heatwaves, to global climate change, and a recent report by the DARA Group and Climate Vulnerability Forum finds that climate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trillion.