Sentences with phrase «recent severe weather»

The President pointed out that recent severe weather supplied an urgent impetus for energy innovation and staked the nation's economic future on responding to a changing climate.

Recent severe weather in the US triggered claims they» re proof of human - caused global warming.

b) the premise that AGW is the direct cause of recent severe weather events has also not been validated by empirical data based on physical observations or reproducible experimentation

Not exact matches

«In recent months, notwithstanding the impact of severe weather events such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, flight completion and on - time arrival rates remained high, while reports of mishandled baggage and involuntary denied boardings plunged to their lowest ever recorded.

The president of the beleaguered LIRR outlined an extensive plan to reverse the agency's recent service woes by investing in technology to better protect infrastructure from severe weather, more quickly responding to problems, enhancing customer communication — and installing subway - like countdown clocks at all stations.

With a series of severe weather events in recent years, power providers across the region have updated their plans to get ready for and respond to weather, and in some cases, man - made disasters.

The current strong El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific puts many coral reefs at risk of severe bleaching, and recent weather predictions show that the Kimberley region might be particularly affected in 2016.

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.

Three of his more recent paintings depict the severe weather experienced on the coast of southern China, but rather than being immersed in a Romantic J.M.W. Turner thunderstorm, Santoro and his viewers gaze out from a high rise window in Hong Kong.

«Can the persistent weather conditions associated with recent severe events such as the snowy winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in the eastern U.S. and Europe, the historic drought and heat - wave in Texas during summer 2011, or record - breaking rains in the northeast U.S. of summer 2011 be attributed to enhanced high - latitude warming?

But even conveying our level of ignorance is hard: Marty's quotation of Harold Brooks makes it sound as though he is saying that the recent uptick in severe weather had nothing to do with climate change.

The recent spate of storms and severe winter weather in Europe have been suggested as linked to changes in the Jet Stream.

The British Hydrological Society's Chronology of extreme weather events shows all too clearly that we have had (in the U.K.) much more severe flooding in Britain, and long before the recent warming trend set in, for centuries past.

According to climate scientist Michael Mann, it's very possible that several of the recent severe and costly extreme weather outbreaks are linked to changes in the jet stream he identified in a recent study.

Scientists like Hansen only expect extreme weather to get worse in the years to come, though Mann said it was still «unclear» whether recent severe winters on the East Coast are connected to the phenomenon.

The recent devastation of record - breaking hurricanes like Harvey, Irma, and Maria have shone a spotlight on severe weather and how climate change is making the threat worse.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

In recent years we have provided reliable medium - range forecasts for a range of severe weather events.

These profound changes to the Arctic system have coincided with a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters.

To make a resounding judgement that makes it as though he is saying that the recent up tick in severe weather had nothing to do with climate change implies a settled science on the matter.

The solar panel receivers have to be continuously kept clean of bird droppings, dust, and rubbish; and they can be damaged in severe weather (for example in the recent severe hailstorm in Melbourne).

This document presents recent verification statistics and evaluations of ECMWF forecasts (including weather, waves and severe weather events) along with information about changes to the data assimilation and forecasting system.

As the climate has warmed, some types of extreme weather have become more frequent and severe in recent decades, with increases in extreme heat, intense precipitation, and drought.

Following a series of recent devastating extreme weather events — mudslides in Sierra Leone, flooding in south Asia, and severe storms hitting the Philippines and the Gulf of Mexico, many have called attention to the role of climate change in these disasters.

So, the most recent science shows 1) no observed relationship between global warming and winter severe weather outbreaks and 2) future «polar vortex» - associated cold outbreaks are projected to mollify — yet the White House prepares a special video proclaiming the opposite with the intent to spread climate alarm.

Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age.

If you poke around in the history here at WUWT and look at some recent (within the last 3 months) topics, you can find many references to weather being LESS, not more severe at this time.

Though for half of the recent mass animal death events listed on the map weird weather is to blame, even if different specific weather events: Bucking the global trend of continued are marked warming, the UK just had the coldest December in a century; Australia experienced severe flooding after experiencing recent severe drought and heat; parts of North America have also had the usual weather patterns disrupted.

Recent boreal winters have exhibited a large - scale seesaw temperature pattern characterized by an unusually warm Arctic and cold continents... Using a recently developed index of severe winter weather, we show that the occurrence of severe winter weather in the United States is significantly related to anomalies in pan-Arctic geopotential heights and temperatures.

Recent events in the cruise have also included disabled ships, severe weather delays, and other disasters that have left a lot of frustrated and unhappy passengers in their wake.

The Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems State Support Team invites you to join them on Monday, December 18 at 1:00 pm ET for a webinar entitled Student data in times of crisis: Collecting and managing data of displaced students in light of the severe impacts of recent weather events.