Sentences with phrase «severe heat events»

«Knowing how much our emissions have changed the likelihood of this kind of severe heat event can help us to minimize the impacts of the next heat wave, and to determine the value of avoiding further changes in climate.»

Not exact matches

A massive hail and rain event on June 11th as bloom and set was occurring followed by a couple of severe heat spells and temps exceeding 100F for several days.

Some of the more severe events that recently captured the U.S. public's attention included the Texas / Oklahoma heat wave and drought of the summer 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

One looked at the historical temperature record and compared how often such severe heat waves occurred a century ago versus today using 3 - day averages; the other used climate models that simulate a world with and without warming to see how the odds of such an event shifted.

After suffering through the most severe bleaching event ever recorded last year, the Great Barrier Reef is once again being savaged by a marine heat wave.

«Can the persistent weather conditions associated with recent severe events such as the snowy winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in the eastern U.S. and Europe, the historic drought and heat - wave in Texas during summer 2011, or record - breaking rains in the northeast U.S. of summer 2011 be attributed to enhanced high - latitude warming?

It is clear that the random occurrence of a summertime block in the presence of the projected changes in future surface temperature would produce heat waves materially more severe than the 2010 event.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

Insufferable heat will be one problem but heat brings any number of knock - on effects — severe weather events of increasing intensity, frequency and duration; disease and pest problems; disruption of freshwater resources, on and on and on.

We expect from CO2 - based warming less severe «extreme weather events» because of the blanket effect and less heat differential between the equator and the poles.

From heat waves to droughts to wildfires, the United States has seen little in the way of relief from severe events over the last several months.

Develop and implement preparedness and response plans for health threats such as heat waves, severe weather events, and infectious diseases.

Since 1900, extreme heat events have killed more Australians than bushfires, cyclones, earthquakes, floods and severe storms combined.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

And since crops will be facing not just heat stress but also extreme events such as wide - ranging droughts, flooding, or pest outbreaks, the losses could easily turn out to be more severe than the models have predicted.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

Other major climate impacts at 2 degrees Celsisus include severe threats to coral reefs across the globe, a greater risk of long lasting heat waves and extreme rainfall events, and the risk of lower yields for key crops like wheat in the globe's tropical regions.

These profound changes to the Arctic system have coincided with a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters.

The scope and impacts of climate change — including rising seas, more damaging extreme weather events, and severe ecological disruption — demand that we consider all possible options for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions — including their respective costs and timelines for implementation.

Our results demonstrate the health benefits of reducing soot and smog, an expected additional advantage of a strong carbon standard for power plants — beyond the direct health benefits of mitigating climate change associated with avoided exposure to heat episodes, fires, severe weather events, and so on.

Fig. 2 gives an example of a QRA − HPA event that began as a QRA event with 10 August 2012 as the central date, followed, with a lag of 5 d, by an HPA event during the strong heat waves in the western and eastern United States, accompanied by severe flooding in the central United States that occurred simultaneously with destructive flooding in central China and severe droughts in eastern and western China (44).

The QRA event with 10 August 2012 as the central date, followed, with a lag of 5 d, by the observed HPA event during heat waves in the western and eastern United States and severe flooding in the central United States, accompanied by flooding in central China and droughts in eastern and western China (44).

We found no significant effects from this heat stress event in skeletal extension rates in our coral cores, indicating that it did not cause as severe a bleaching event as in 2004.

The risk of disruptive events will also increase in the future as droughts, heat waves, more intense storms, and increasingly severe wildfires become more frequent due to global warming — increasing the need for resilient, clean technologies.

Extreme events — hurricanes, droughts, severe storms, floods, heat waves, cold snaps — can have costly and far - reaching impacts on society.

Certain consequences of global warming are now inevitable, including sea level rise, more frequent and severe heat waves, growing wildfire risks, and an increase in extreme weather events.

Extreme weather events like heat waves, heavy rains and drought are becoming more common and more severe.

Altered agricultural conditions, including extreme heat, expanded water demands, and increased severe weather events, will affect food availability and cost, particularly in vulnerable regions in which child undernutrition is already a major threat.43 The decreased protein, iron, and zinc content of certain major crops has been demonstrated for plants grown under increased CO2 conditions, 44,45 carrying significant implications for child nutrition.

Meanwhile, more - severe summer heat waves — classified as five - sigma events — will go from being essentially absent in the present day to covering around three per cent of the global land surface by 2040.

While no individual hurricane can be attributed to global warming, the report says, rising global temperatures in the coming decades are likely to cause significant increases in severe weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, hailstorms, wildfires, droughts and heat waves.

It is also widely agreed that the world has seen a spate of extreme heat events in recent years, such as the 2011 Texas heat wave and drought and the deadly 2010 heat wave in Russia, and that global warming made some of these events more likely to occur and more severe.

Strong scientific evidence shows that global warming is increasing certain types of extreme weather events, including heat waves, coastal flooding, extreme precipitation events, and more severe droughts.

Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.

Though for half of the recent mass animal death events listed on the map weird weather is to blame, even if different specific weather events: Bucking the global trend of continued are marked warming, the UK just had the coldest December in a century; Australia experienced severe flooding after experiencing recent severe drought and heat; parts of North America have also had the usual weather patterns disrupted.

Extended drought, more frequent and severe weather events, heat waves, warming and acidifying ocean waters, catastrophic wildfires, and rising sea levels all have compounding effects on people's health and well - being.