Sentences with phrase «severe weather changes»

Animals have instincts about severe weather changes and will often hide if they are afraid

Animals have instincts about severe weather changes and will often isolate themselves if they are afraid.

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His action plan decreases carbon pollution, prepares the U.S. for increasingly severe weather patterns and spearheads an international effort to combat climate change.

Severe weather due to climate change is already costing Canadians billions of dollars a year in insurance costs.

Severe weather in March, dubbed the Beast from the East, sent sales plunging more than 20 per cent, offsetting encouraging gains in January and February after changes were made to stores, product range and pricing at BUKI's 227 remaining Homebase stores and 23 new - format Bunnings stores.

Because climate change is linked to an increase in severe weather events — like hurricanes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures — poorer countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to handle them leave millions at risk.

Cuomo said Friday that MTA service is expected to still be on a weekend schedule, but he indicated that this could change based on the forecast and how severe the weather becomes.

Mayor Bloomberg created a taskforce to develop a long - term plan for the city based on expected future climate change, severe weather occurrences, and how to rebuild better.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

«We've been undergoing severe challenges due to weather events related to climate change,» Miner said.

The team will develop proposals to reduce carbon emissions through energy efficiency and conservation and the generation of renewable energy as well as work to anticipate and prepare for impacts of drought, changing lake levels, and severe weather, among others.

Workshop Goal: Provide Lake Erie / Niagara River region municipal leaders with training on severe weather and climate change impacts as well as some of the tools, resources, and programs that can be used to identify and address vulnerabilities and increase community resiliency to those impacts.

Even climate change - denies agree: weather patterns are more severe, less predictable, and more frequent.

This year's rash of severe weather is changing climate science.

People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to the effects of climate change, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher.

Stronger link with severe weather The report is firm on the science that humans are causing climate change.

The document points out the changes that Americans are currently experiencing, like more severe weather and rising seas.

A significant update in this report from the 2009 version is the stronger link between climate change and severe weather, as the science on that topic has strengthened in the last five years, said a source familiar with the report.

In addition to natural change detection, the VuePod has the potential to assist in infrastructure monitoring — such as tracking how highways hold up (or slough and crack) over time and seeing the affect on buildings after severe weather or earthquakes.

Cornell's plant experts estimate that Carolus could flower in early to mid-August, but there is no prior data with which to predict how it will acclimate to conditions and variables such as rain, changing light, and the risk of severe weather that could disrupt growth or even cause the plant to not fully develop.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

«Five or 10 years down the road, when we have a system that can tell you that there's a severe hail storm coming hours in advance, and to be able to trust that — it will change how we see severe weather.

The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change is unlikely to lead to more severe winter weather across Northern Europe, new research has shown.

«As climate models are being developed, we are beginning to get more accurate information about the impacts of climate change to severe weather incidents in areas like Finland,» says meteorologist Pauli Jokinen from Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

«With increasing changes in weather patterns and more frequent severe storms, we need to look at bigger opportunities to create more water storage further up our river catchments.

From heat waves to downpours, a number of extreme weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.

Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate system.

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

Social networking can even be used to organize staff meetings and inform customers of operational changes, like adjustments in store hours during severe weather.

Travel arrangements canceled or changed by a common carrier, tour operator, or any travel agency unless the cancellation is the result of severe weather or an organized strike affecting public transportation

Citi provides trip cancellation and interruption protection for severe illness or weather - related reasons and non-refundable expenses may be reimbursed, including change fees.

Airlines now are very good about allowing you to make free changes to your flights in the event of forecasted severe weather.

Blast your way through extreme weather conditions like tropical storms and thick fog and challenge Storm Island's sudden and severe terrain changes.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

But even conveying our level of ignorance is hard: Marty's quotation of Harold Brooks makes it sound as though he is saying that the recent uptick in severe weather had nothing to do with climate change.

Changing weather patterns leads to severe weather.

In addition, the plan steps up our global efforts to lead on climate change and invests to strengthen our roads, bridges, and shorelines so we can better protect people's homes, businesses, and way of life from severe weather.

Similar to 6, 7, and 9 above, «We recognize that climate change, left unaddressed, is expected to threaten food production from land and sea, to limit fresh water availability, to cause more severe weather including cyclones, droughts and floods, to increase life - threatening illnesses, to endanger biodiversity» and so on.

when they say in the IPCC that «Climate Change is contributing to more severe weather events.»

Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.

The recent spate of storms and severe winter weather in Europe have been suggested as linked to changes in the Jet Stream.

Just as a band of Carteret Islanders are abandoning their homes due to the effects of climate change — becoming the world's first climate change refugees — word has come that rising sea levels and more severe weather patterns may claim an even greater victim: the entire cultural legacy of Australia's native Aborigines.

The most severe impacts of climate change — damaging and often deadly drought, sea - level rise, and extreme weather — can only be avoided by keeping average global temperatures within 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) of pre-industrial levels.

The scientists will outline how only a combined strategy employing all the major sustainable clean energy options — including renewables and nuclear — can prevent the worst effects of climate change by 2100, such as the loss of coral reefs, severe damages from extreme weather events, and the destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide.

Indeed, cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) today won't eliminate a climate change - induced pattern favoring more severe storms and extreme weather.

Worse, the process of climate change, based on the levels of greenhouse gases we have already put in the atmosphere, is likely to increase the severity and frequency of severe weather events.

«With global temperatures hitting a new record high and repeated episodes of severe weather, including flooding in this country, helping people to understand the basic science behind climate change as well as the consequences for our nature, our businesses and food supply feels like an important thing to do.»

Nicholson, noting that «up until now, climate change has been seen as a common problem,» raised the concern of conflict over attribution, in which countries that experience severe weather events may blame countries deploying geoengineering technologies.