Sentences with phrase «says hurricane trends»

Saunders says hurricane trends are difficult to study because the number of hurricanes naturally rises and falls over decades.

Not exact matches

«Eagle Ford production has been on an upward trend since it bottomed out in late 2016, although rig counts have been declining since reaching 86 on May 26,» Dallas Fed said, noting that the Eagle Ford output dropped in late August and early September due to curtailments amid Hurricane Harvey.
«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
This trend is likely to continue, the researchers said, adding that major coastal disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 already have indicated the possibly increasing risks associated with settling in the country's low - lying coastal areas.
This is not to say for a minute that we shouldn't be looking for trends in things like hurricane intensity, just that finding or not finding a trend at this time doesn't prove a whole lot.
He asked what the trend data on terrorism would have said in 2000 as an analogy to the lack of discernible trends in hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and drought.
«NOAA public affairs called and asked what I would say to certain questions, like is there a trend in Atlantic hurricanes.
Atmospheric scientist Clifford Mass of the University of Washington also has a problem with Munich Re's findings, saying that once the data are adjusted for population there is no recent upward trend in tornado or hurricane damages.
The null hypothesis works the other way: in this case, the null hypothesis is that no trend exists in hurricanes in connection with observed 0.5 °C warming; if you can not reject that hypothesis, as the authors say you can't, then it is useless to linger on any theory of «how» (or why) it happens.
Scientists say the extreme rainfall events that feed these floods are on the rise for many parts of the world, and this year's hurricanes fit that trend.
If there is a trend I could be convinced otherwise I disagree with Governor Cuomo's comment that «there is a pattern of extreme weather that we've never seen before» — reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that «anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns is probably denying reality.»
That said, however, it shows how even if there is no trend in hurricane activity, we are still likely to see dramatic increases in the damage and destruction that hurricanes cause to us in the future.
Morano says that peer - reviewed scientific literature indicates no upward trend in droughts, floods, or hurricanes
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.»
So, just for clarification, are you saying that there is an observable trend to date in floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme heat, extreme cold (the latter two in relation to what would be expected for the period in question)?
Do hurricane researchers have any models, or direct methods, to measure how active a season may have been in, oh, say 1705, based on possible long duration climactic trends?
I would expect to see about one degree C of man - made warming between now and 2100, and believe most of the cries that «we are already seeing catastrophic climate changes» are in fact panics driven by normal natural variation (most supposed trends, say in hurricanes or tornadoes or heat waves, can't actually be found when one looks at the official data).
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