Sentences with phrase «recent storm events»

In his new role, Mr. Gennaro will further DECs efforts to prepare and make New York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm events.

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Speaking during a debate on the Queen's Speech in the House of Lords, the Archbishop referred to the recent «storm of events» that had tested the country «with an almost unrelenting ferocity».

Hamburg Supervisor Steven Walters says the town utilized Erie County's emergency Disaster Local Access Network or DLAN system during the recent storm - and he says «it worked» - but notes with larger snow events it takes time mobilize help.

But in an email Tuesday, Mr. Russell noted several highlights of his most recent term, including purchases of farmland development rights and environmentally fragile parcels, maintaining a strong credit rating and guiding the town through several major storm events.

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.

Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.

A new study has found geochemical clues near the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea that tell a story of ancient glacier formation, the influence of the most recent ice age, more frequent major storms in Hawaii, and the impact of a distant climatic event that changed much of the world.

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.

At the recent Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Multiplayer event, it quickly became evident that Red Storm Entertainment and Ubisoft are creating an incredibly authentic shooter - right down to the feel of each weapon, how they handle and sound.

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The study, combining data from observed storms with a variety of climate simulations, did not extend beyond 1999 and so does not assess more recent extreme weather events.

His examination of these extreme events — snow, storms, rainfall — shows an absence of evidence to indicate marked change over recent decades.»

Precedent to the recent not - as - big - as - feared - but - still - bad ice storm in Georgia, my correspondent there noted that trees in Georgia have been weakened by a series of unfortunate weather events.

That answer, however, prompts a deeper, more unsettling question that many want to know: is climate change worsening some recent extreme weather events like super storm Sandy?»

Among recent extreme lake - effect snow events was a February 2007 10 - day storm total of over 10 feet of snow in western New York state.12

Like many other conference speakers and attendees, Secretary - General Ban cited the recent droughts, floods, and Tropical Storm Sandy as proof of the dire consequences of man - made global warming, even though many studies and scientists (including scientists who usually fall into the climate alarmist category) have stated that there is no evidence to support claims that «extreme weather» has been increasing in frequency and / or magnitude in recent years, or that extreme events (hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, etc.) have anything to do with increased CO2 levels.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

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.

There is a hysteresis effect related to recent events (e.g. Hurricane Sandy, Buffalo snow storm).

(134) Other chances to mention global climate change came in stories about heat waves, floods, and coastal storms, especially when the events were more damaging than anything in recent memory.

The increasing normalized trends in the U.S. were evident in convective storms, winter storms, flooding events and high temperature - related losses, and were almost statistically significant for hurricanes at the conventional 95 percent confidence level.3 In view of data like this, it's very hard to accept Pielke's confident assertion that «[n] o matter what President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron say, recent costly disasters are not part of a trend driven by climate change.»

As she explained in a recent article for Climate Home, Thomas's research shows small island states are hit increasingly hard by tropical storms but don't have robust data to measure the influence of climate change on specific events.

A recent, peer - reviewed study published by several authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science concludes: «The largest cyclones are most affected by warmer conditions and we detect a statistically significant trend in the frequency of large surge events (roughly corresponding to tropical storm size) since 1923.»

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