Sentences with phrase «same extreme event»

One shift from the 2011 analysis is the inclusion in several cases of more than one analysis of the same extreme event.

Not exact matches

«But the event tonight has been overshadowed by the presence, not just at conference but on the same platform as some senior members of the party, of people of such extreme and offensive views.»
The study's findings showed that volatile elements undergo the same chemical reactions during extreme temperature and pressure events whether taking place on Earth or in outer space.
We have been informed that some events may come together, for example an earthquake at the same time as extreme heat, or extreme wind at the same time as extreme rainfall or runoff.
The nearby rural areas experienced no change over the same period, remaining at five extreme heat event days per year.
That means 5 million Europeans who are currently under threat of flooding from extreme sea level events that occur every 100 years could face that same risk annually, according to the new study.
With a changing global climate, the panel members said, what seem to be abnormally frequent, intense or otherwise extreme weather phenomena may become the new «normal» at the same time that humans, expanding to populate more geographical nooks and crannies, become increasingly vulnerable to these events.
Nassim Taleb of «Black Swan» fame teaches us the very same basic principle with his «hockey stick» with intense life changing events on one extreme and small gentle changes on the other.
Doesn't using a «baseline for anomaly calculation» «equal to the time span being analyzed» decrease REAL extreme weather event probabilities much the same way as using a sliding baseline minimizes the slope of temperature increase?
These variability trends indicate that the frequency of extremes (more drought events and more heavy precipitation events) has increased whereas the mean has remained approximately the same.
Internationally, with developing countries especially vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather events, I recommend support for adaptation on the same scale as the president's $ 15bn five - year plan for aids relief.
In Australia, the extreme events are bushfires, which come from extreme heat and wind at the same time, and are probably more linked to temperature than cyclones.
This shows how some aspects of extreme events can be increased by global warming at the same time as decreasing over time.
Thirty years ago, the popular theory was that the Earth was heading into another ice age, and the same extreme weather events that some people are blaming on global warming were blamed on global COOLING!
I realize that I am writing this at the same time as world growing seasons are disrupted by extreme weather events, floods and draught.
I also think that some sceptics have too readily seized on this as evidence of future cooling in the same way that the strong advocated of cAGW seize on any and all extreme weather events as evidence of «climate change».
Climate scientists use the same statistical techniques to determine global warming's influence in extreme climate events as public health researchers use to investigate the health impacts of smoking and asbestos exposure.
For instance, extreme weather events occurred with about the same frequency during the 1945 - 77 global cooling period as they do today, yet no climate scientist pointed to human activity as being responsible in the earlier period.
are going to say the same thing regardless of what the trends in temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events dictate.
For the first time, the report includes a discussion of climate - related «surprises,» or unanticipated changes, in which tipping points in the Earth's systems are crossed or climate - related extreme events happen at the same time, creating «compound extreme events,» multiplying the potential damage and destruction.
«So you end up with the conclusion that human influence made a particular winter snow event worse, even though it is also — at the same time — reducing the risk of extreme winter snow events
Now Dr Cai and colleagues report once again in Nature Climate Change that the same is true for what one might call the oscillation's downside: global warming is likely to double the frequency of extreme La Niña events, too.
Whatever the spin the goal is always the same: to exploit the personal tragedies of the disaster victims for political gain by dishonestly pretending that natural extreme weather events are somehow connected with «man - made climate change.»
Today, a new review paper in Nature Climate Change suggests we can expect more of the same in future, with rising temperatures set to almost double the frequency of extreme El Niño events.
A previous study by many of the same authors found that if global carbon emissions aren't curbed, extreme La Niña events could become more frequent in the 21st century — up from once every 23 years to once every 13 years.
It also passed, on the same day, both of the «extreme events» it was subjected to.
The title of this post is taken from an article of the same name by Michael Ferrari, who raises the issue of extreme weather event black swans in the context of climate change.
We're getting these blocking events — where a stationary high keeps weather systems in the same location for several days, perhaps a week or more — that can bring real extremes.
Discussing attribution, is not the same as taking extreme events as indicators that warming is occurring.
Thus: the same amount of global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events.
The probability spread of one U.S. hurricane is the same for both extreme events, however, with both warm and cold phases exhibiting a 90 % confidence interval of 13 percent: warm phase from 45 to 58 percent, cold phase from 18 to 31 percent.
Scientists have long taken a similarly cautious stance, but more are starting to drop the caveat and link climate change directly to intense storms and other extreme weather events, such as the warm 2012 winter in the eastern U.S. and the frigid one in Europe at the same time.
This so - called «meta - analysis» allows scientists to draw statistical significance from the combined studies even when a single study might not be considered conclusive — in much the same sense that no single weather event can be said to result from climate change but the statistical trend indicates that more extreme weather events will become more frequent in a warming world.
More importantly, the same study does find connections to specific extreme weather events and man - made climate change.
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