Sentences with phrase «related weather extremes»

Her work focuses on how climate change affects rainfall and water - related weather extremes.

The last few years have also seen record - breaking, climate - related weather extremes, and the last three years have been the warmest years on record for the globe.

Not exact matches

The most frequent cause of delays were late - arriving aircraft (7.4 %) followed by aviation - system delays (6.9 %), maintenance or crew problems (5.2 %), extreme weather (0.4 %) and for security - related reasons (0.02 %)

Over the next two weeks, academics, innovators, business leaders, public officials and youth organization representatives will convene at workshops in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, London, Johannesburg, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Shanghai to identify tangible opportunities related to five risks threatening our communities: extreme weather, continued lock - in to fossil fuels, urban breakdown, lack of fresh water and continued rise in non-communicable diseases.

* ESURE: British insurer esure Group Plc on Thursday said claims related to a spell of extreme winter weather resulted in higher - than - expected costs in its home insurance business in the first - quarter.

Increased extreme weather and climate - related impacts are imposing significant costs on society and on companies.

The insurance industry has been pricing extreme weather - related risks for many years.

On climate change: In response to extreme weather events, Mr. Cuomo said he will launch Resilient NY, a program meant to enhance how communities recover after climate change - related events.

«We know that sea levels are rising and that coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather - and climate - related events.

«Our data show that the risk of hospitalization for asthma related to extreme weather varies across demographic subgroups in Maryland.

Age, gender, education and political persuasion were also significantly related to extreme weather perceptions.

Calculating an overall trend in climate - related deaths is difficult due to the irregularity of severe storms, Boersma says, though the link between extreme weather and chick death demonstrates that as extreme weather increases in coming years, chick death will increase in turn.

Number one: climate - related extreme weather events have become far more serious and frequent, validating the predictions of the scientific community.

Vulnerability to winter weather depends on many non-climate factors, including housing, age, and baseline health.185, 186 While deaths and injuries related to extreme cold events are projected to decline due to climate change, these reductions are not expected to compensate for the increase in heat - related deaths.187, 188,189

Climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves, air quality, and extreme weather and climate events.

Health effects of these disruptions include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in the prevalence and geographical distribution of food - and waterborne illnesses and other infectious diseases, and threats to mental health.

«Determination of the return periods of extreme weather events should be the starting point for all risk assessment related to weather events, because in addition to exposure and vulnerability, it also it determines the need for society to prepare», says FMI researcher Karoliina Pilli - Sihvola.

Pictures shot by camcorders on the news may foster a belief that weather - related extremes are increasing in frequency, whether they are or not.

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

He uses numerical models and large data sets to study financial risks related to climate change impacts and extreme weather events.

He is a principal investigator for research projects related to extreme weather, global water and energy cycle, and high latitude precipitation.

Surprisingly, extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather - related event.

Most of these deaths are attributed to avalanche, injury, weather exposure, or health problems related to extreme conditions on the mountain.

Flood damage refers to rising water related to weather extremes and most homeowner's insurance policies won't cover flood damage at all.

Warm Arctic, cold continents: A common pattern related to Arctic sea ice melt, snow advance, and extreme winter weather.

Everybody should consider to contribute content to this site, since it would help video producers to more effectively communicate climate science, when sharing extreme weather footage, or other related media to the site under public domain principles.

In hot climates and the tropics flood - related influenza is typical after extreme weather and natural after floods.

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

It is almost certain that the strange extreme weather patterns now observed throughout the northern hemisphere are related to this arctic warming and the consequent weakening of the jet streams that lie between the arctic and the more temperate northern lands.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

SKS has a related post on extreme weather events which includes some of the Munich Re information.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

See Stott et al. 2015, «Attribution of extreme weather and climate - related events» http://www.hvonstorch.de/klima/pdf/stott-et-al.2015.pdf

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.

By exaggerating the influence of climate change on today's weather and climate - related extreme events, a part of our community is painting itself into a rhetorical corner.

I bring it up here, because it relates the recent spate of very extreme weather to Arctic Sea Ice Extent (especially in the second video):

``... extreme cold is one of the most potent weather - related killers.»

But, when is this backing off on relating the probability of extreme weather events to climate change going to stop?

Much climate - related damage results from extreme weather events and could be affected by changes in the frequency and intensity of these events due to climate change.

Additionally, the publication aims to highlight the full range climate - related health issues and risks (i.e. nutrition, NCDs, air pollution, allergens, infectious diseases, water and sanitation, extreme temperatures and weather, etc.) where health decision - making can benefit from climate and weather knowledge at historic, immediate, seasonal, or long - term time scales.

In recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particular.

There are experts, however, including in the Government of Nepal, who will tell you that the problem was a weather - related issue (extreme cold) that affected OPV maize as well as hybrid.

Related In case you missed it last week (as I did), Christiana Figueres, the head of the United Nations office facilitating the climate treaty negotiations, made some pretty inept efforts in a Guardian interview to cite extreme weather patterns in making the case for action on greenhouse gases.

I do think they «aren't needed» to support the assertion that various global warming - related factors have observably played a role in causing, contributing to, and / or greatly exacerbating the destructive effects of recent «extreme weather events».

The paper considers the necessary components of a prospective event attribution system, reviews some specific case studies made to date (Autumn 2000 UK floods, summer 2003 European heatwave, annual 2008 cool US temperatures, July 2010 Western Russia heatwave) and discusses the challenges involved in developing systems to provide regularly updated and reliable attribution assessments of unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events.

such as might indicate an increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather related to global climate change.

When weather - related damages are adjusted («normalized») to account for changes in population, per capita income, and the consumer price index, there is no long - term trend such as might indicate an increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather related to global climate change.

Local forecasts show dramatic increase of local weather extremes during the end of 2015 — and yes, it is science - approved to relate that to the Paris climate negotiations!

Vulnerability to winter weather depends on many non-climate factors, including housing, age, and baseline health.185, 186 While deaths and injuries related to extreme cold events are projected to decline due to climate change, these reductions are not expected to compensate for the increase in heat - related deaths.187, 188,189

For example, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated how vulnerable these populations were to extreme weather events because many low - income and of - color New Orleans residents were killed, injured, or had difficulty evacuating and recovering from the storm.239, 240 Other climate change related issues that have an equity component include heat waves and air quality.241, 235,242,234