Sentences with phrase «report on extreme events»

-- «The 2012 report on extreme events by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change examined the evidence for regional changes in soil moisture since 1950, and made the following assessment for western North America: «No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large variability; large drought of the 1930s dominates.»

As the IPCC special report on extreme events put it «There is low confidence in any observed long - term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity (i.e., intensity, frequency, duration), after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities.»

These have been assessed (based on simulations with sophisticated land models), the results of which are summarized by the IPCC (2012) report on extreme events (for which this drought qualifies).

Not exact matches

This month the IPCC releases its second report, which focuses on global warming's impacts, ranging from intensifying droughts to heavier downpours and other extreme weather events.

Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

According to a poll conducted by researchers at Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, four out of five Americans reported personally experiencing one or more types of extreme weather or a natural disaster in 2011, while more than a third were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these events.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do justevents that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do justEvents and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

Global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report by the World Bank showed on Monday.

Professor Michael Norton, EASAC's Environment Programme Director states, «Our 2013 Extreme Weather Events report — which was based on the findings of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute — has been updated and the latest data supports our original conclusions: there has been and continues to be a significant increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, making climate proofing all the more uEvents report — which was based on the findings of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute — has been updated and the latest data supports our original conclusions: there has been and continues to be a significant increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, making climate proofing all the more uevents, making climate proofing all the more urgent.

The biggest climate - driven extreme weather event since Katrina — Boulder's Carolyn Baker reports on fracking leaks, climate, economic hit.

Dr. O» Keefe reported on findings that exercise can be harmful, especially when performed as exhausting long cardio efforts and racing in extreme endurance events such as an Ironman triathlon.

Here is an interesting report on the links between tropical temperatures and increased likelihood of extreme precipitation events:

Gavin, am interested in your earlier reported brief comment in the context of the Pakistan floods (perhaps here on Real Climate) that a different way of looking at extreme events is asking the question thus: what is the likelihood of such events occurring had atmospheric CO2 levels remained what they were at the time of the Industrial Revolution (276 ppm) rather than what they are now (390 ppm).

A new report on extreme climate events in Europe is just published: «Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptatevents in Europe is just published: «Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptatEvents in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptation `.

On that front, both a report from a workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences, «Global Change and Extreme Hydrology,» and an international meeting on «Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events» concluded that questions outnumber answers and there's a lot of work to be donOn that front, both a report from a workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences, «Global Change and Extreme Hydrology,» and an international meeting on «Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events» concluded that questions outnumber answers and there's a lot of work to be donon «Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events» concluded that questions outnumber answers and there's a lot of work to be done.

While extreme weather can sometimes come with benefits, the report said, ``... on balance, because systems have adapted to their historical range of extremes, the majority of the impacts of events outside this range are expected to be negative.»

As described in the report scoping paper, SREX is intended to focus on practical applications that decision - makers can use to manage the risks of extreme events.

Another, of course, is the 2012 report on managing risks from extreme weather events from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

Citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Global Climate Deal (A-FAB) coalition said typhoons and other extreme weather events would become more intense and frequent unless governments took immediate steps to move toward a low - carbon economy.

Meanwhile, Britain's leading independent long range weather forecaster, Piers Corbyn, speaking on his WeatherAction.com website reports, «the world is now in one of its most extreme solar - lunar driven weather and earthquake / volcano events situations for at least 66 years and very likely twice that.»

In the most absurd case of Pielke misdirection, Field accurately reports the SREX findings on extreme precipitation events, which Pielke Jr. purports is a misrepresentation because of something that report said about flood losses.

The World Health Organisation reports that climate change related variations to weather patterns such as more intense and frequent extreme events, changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, and to ecosystems, agriculture, livelihoods and infrastructure, will all have an impact on health.

Referencing Cuomo's and Bloomberg's comments above he opines, «to connect energy policy and disasters makes little scientific or policy sense,» and he cites the recent extreme - event report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitting «no signs that human - caused climate change has increased the toll of recent disasters.»

«The report that was released by the IPCC on extreme events suggests that what we are seeing this year is not just an anomalous year, but a harbinger of things to come for at least a subset of the extreme events we are tallying, «said Jane Lubchenco, NOAA's administrator, during a press conference held here this week at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting.

A new report from Environment Missouri presents data on U.S. federally - declared weather disasters from 2006 to 2011, and says climate change will make extreme weather events like droughts and storms more common — and more severe.

While those natural disasters in the United States play only a small role in the World Meterological Organization's (WMO) report on extreme weather events in 2011, there is a tendency to try to link the underlying weather patterns to changes in the global climate.

The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme weather eEvents and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme weather eventsevents.

«The CCR - II report correctly explains that most of the reports on global warming and its impacts on sea - level rise, ice melts, glacial retreats, impact on crop production, extreme weather events, rainfall changes, etc. have not properly considered factors such as physical impacts of human activities, natural variability in climate, lopsided models used in the prediction of production estimates, etc..

The article also reported on the 22 papers published by the AMS «seeking to explain extreme global weather events from a climate perspective» of which two studied the heavy rainfall in Eastern Australia.

It is instructive to compare these numbers with those characteristic of a set of the years during 1979 — 2012 with no or only one major regional extreme event (in terms of land surface temperature and land precipitation anomalies) in the NH midlatitudes, from late April / early May to late September / early October, as reported yearly since 1993 in the World Meteorological Organization statements on the status of the global climate (see also ref.

[ISPM 2.3 a] In support of these assertions, the ISPM draws on several potential problems cited in the background section of the extreme weather events section of the AR4 report.

We're compiling a report for later this afternoon on yet one more extreme weather event in a long procession.

For instance, in 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special report studying links between climate change and extreme weather, titled «Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaption».

Report on the workshop on the development of early warning systems and contingency plans in relation to extreme weather events and their effects such as desertification, drought, floods, landslides, storm surge, soil erosion, and saline water intrusion.

The report addresses, for the first time, how integrating expertise in climate science, disaster risk management, and adaptation can inform discussions on how to reduce and manage the risks of extreme events and disasters in a changing climate.

«The Bureau of the American Meteorological Society has now published five reports focused on explaining how climate change may have affected extreme events from 2011 to 2015.

«For example, though the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that global climate change will increase the risk of extreme fire events (7), its assessment did not quantify potential fire - climate feedbacks.

There is no evidence, for instance, that extreme weather events are increasing in any systematic way, according to scientists at the U.S. National Hurricane Center, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which released the second part of this year's report earlier this month).

In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a special report of «unprecedented extreme weather and climate events» to come.

They say three independent reviews into climate science - the key one being the Inter Academy Council review of the IPCC reports, due by August, will assuage doubts about climate science — adding that the IPCC's general meeting in October and its reports, due out some time in H2, on renewable energy and managing the risks of extreme events will also provide opportunities for a confidence boost.

We decided well over a year ago to do a special report on climate change and extreme events.

The report further addresses 2013 extreme weather and climate events on the continent, including: floods and heavy precipitation; tropical cyclones and wind storms; and droughts, heat waves and fires.

Also concerning was the report's insistence on new evidence showing a strengthened link between man - made climate change and extreme weather events, particularly heat waves, droughts, and floods.

As the most recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change notes, the impacts of climate change are already being felt around the world as seas rise, extreme weather events increase, areas suffer drought or flood, and plants and animals edge closer to extinction.

Indeed, many of the extreme weather events of the last 18 months are entirely consistent with expectations outlined in earlier IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports.

My illness was a first - time episode of PTSD flashback to the past — including my childhood and extreme events that I reported on as a veteran journalist (46 years as a working journalist).