Sentences with phrase «result of extreme heat»

Millions of people will suffer, die and be displaced as a result of extreme heat waves, sea - level rise as much as 100 cm by 2100 with continuing large rates of rise, and by more severe storms, droughts and floods.

Based on measurements of ecosystem CO2 flux, radiation absorption by plants, crop yields and a model simulating the terrestrial biosphere, a multinational team of researchers has found that during July and August 2003, 500 million tonnes of carbon escaped from the forests and fields across Europe as a result of extreme heat and drought.

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«As various parts of the country suffer under extreme heat, which at times can result in devastating consequences, people need to keep up the fluids from whatever source possible» said the Council's CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

«As parts of the country suffer under extreme heat this summer, which can result in devastating consequences, people need to keep up the fluids from whatever non-alcoholic drinks possible.

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«As various parts of the country suffer under extreme heat, which at times can result in devastating consequences, people need to keep up the fluids from whatever source possible.

«Our results indicate that areas of eastern Texas, Florida, the south - east and mid-Atlantic are areas where rapid population growth, acting in concert with a warming climate, will lead to a significant increase in exposure to heat extremes,» says Jones.

«Chaotic magnetic field lines may answer the coronal heating problem: Scientists show how chaotic magnetic field lines result in stronger current sheets and extreme heating of the sun's corona.»

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

According to Meng, the results suggest that if we are to reduce climate losses on manufacturing output, adaptation measures should not focus solely on reducing the sensitivity of workers to extreme heat, but also that of factory machines.

The impacts of extreme weather events include illness or death as a result of heat stress, injuries, drowning, air and water contamination, and mental health effects.

The outstanding heat resistance of the brake discs also protects the materials from deformation caused by extreme stress while the aluminium brake disc chamber provides reliable protection against corrosion — resulting in the highest possible levels of driving dynamics, safety and operational life.

It's a clean - looking shield that greatly reduces radiant heat resulting in a cooler cabin interior and overall component protection from the effects of extreme heat.

According to one of the most extreme opinion expressed by former Vice President and now Noble Laureate Al Gore in his book entitled «An Inconvenient Truth», we can be certain to see catastrophic events such as droughts, floods, epidemics, killer heat waves, etc. as a result of global warming.

Yesterday the World Meteorological Organisation published its Annual Statement on the Climate, finding that «2013 once again demonstrated the dramatic impact of droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones on people and property in all parts of the planet» and that «many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human - induced climate change.»

Two climatologists, Peter Stott at the British Met Office and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, have separately described atmospheric dynamics that appear to link the extreme rains and flooding in Asia with Russia's unrelenting, extraordinary heat and resulting conflagrations.

resulting in increased severity and / or intensity of heat waves, heavy precipitation events, droughts, tropical cyclones and extreme high sea levels [AR4 WGI SPM, p. 8],

Children, primarily because of physiological and developmental factors, will disproportionately suffer from the effects of heat waves, 50 air pollution, infectious illness, and trauma resulting from extreme weather events.137, 17,19,22,256,241,231,232

«Some reduction in the risk of death related to extreme cold is expected... the reduction in deaths as a result of relatively milder winters attributable to global warming will be substantially less than the increase in deaths due to summertime heat extremes.»

The fact that a great deal of the melt in Arctic sea ice is affected by the accumulating heat in the oceans and the fact that energy is advected to the Arctic via the oceans in much larger amounts than via the atmosphere and the extreme loss we've seen in Arctic sea ice volume as a result means nothing to the «skeptics».

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

You wrote - «The fact that a great deal of the melt in Arctic sea ice is affected by the accumulating heat in the oceans and the fact that energy is advected to the Arctic via the oceans in much larger amounts than via the atmosphere and the extreme loss we've seen in Arctic sea ice volume as a result means nothing to the «skeptics».»

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

-- I have listed the «catastrophic results» that are projected to occur, according to IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM, pp. 8 and 13: temperature increase of up to 6.4 °C, heat waves, floods, droughts, increased intense tropical cyclones, extreme high sea level, as well as some of the secondary impacts, which IPCC projects in WG2, WG3: crop failures, disappearing glaciers now supplying drinking water for millions, spread of vector diseases, etc..

More than 370,000 people died during the decade as a result of extreme weather and climate conditions — heat, cold, drought, storms and floods, according to data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters.

Basic physics, more simply stated the actual physical properties of how things work, indicates that an accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases is warming the planet, resulting in an increase in energy and water vapor and particularly in an increase of extremes.

That unusual extreme warming is called Arctic Amplification that CO2 driven models suggest is the result of absorbing more heat because lost sea ice allows darker ocean waters to absorb more heat.

Further, the extreme heat and crop death that occurs such as in Subs - Saharan Africa due to the growth of fossil - fuel emissions and resulting global warming is enhancing heat - stress mortality and famine - related mortality.

However, more «extreme blocking,» along with unusual heat waves and cold snaps, are more likely to be seen as a result of climate change, he said.

Around the globe, extreme events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves increasingly result in forced migration and loss of life, property, and security.

The result is that 2.9 % of the Northern Hemisphere land area experienced extreme heat anomalies — about a quarter of the Hansen team's results.

Besides this study, there are robust theory and modeling results that show increased risk of hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) and heat - related problems.

To summarize, Hansen et al. showed that extreme heat events have become more common and more intense as a result of global warming.

The results of Donat and Alexander (2012) lend some credibility to Tamino's comments regarding a lesser change in temperature variance, although they find that an increase in skewness (asymmetry) of the temperature distribution has probably contributed to the increased frequency of extreme heat events (Figure 5).

The report explores attitudes toward policies that relate to climate change due to extreme weather events such as extended periods of high heat, flooding, and storms resulting in the transmission of disease and decreased air quality.

The IPCC also noted that «simple extremes,» such as» [h] igher maximum temperatures; more hot days and heat waves over nearly all land areas» — which are deemed «very likely» — could result in some of the following:

During 1999 — 2003, a total of 3,442 deaths resulting from exposure to extreme heat were reported (annual mean: 688).