Sentences with phrase «severity of extreme»

Possible changes in variability and the frequency / severity of extreme events are critical to undertaking realistic CCIAV assessments.

Research now shows that deforestation has increased the severity of extreme heat in temperate regions of North America and Europe.

Climate scientists note that increases in both the frequency and severity of extreme weather events are characteristics of a hotter climate.

In the interest of full disclosure, my «sense» is that such a small temperature increase would not increase water vapor significantly enough to cause a statistically significant increase in numbers and / or severity of extreme events, especially since most of the warming has reportedly been in the high northern latitudes where temperatures are well below 0C where the water vapor saturation value vs temperature curve is pretty flat.

The new research, compiled by the international agency Climate Analytics, suggests that limiting global warming to 1.5 ℃ rather than letting it reach 2 ℃ could make a significant difference to the severity of extreme weather events in Australia.

The science linking climate change to increased severity of extreme weather is well - substantiated in peer - reviewed literature.

The last 31 years have been hotter than average, culminating in a recent increase in the frequency and severity of extreme climate events.

When weather - related damages are adjusted («normalized») to account for changes in population, per capita income, and the consumer price index, there is no long - term trend such as might indicate an increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather related to global climate change.

such as might indicate an increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather related to global climate change.

After reading one of my recent pieces examining Pakistani flooding and Russian heat in the context of climate change, Steven Sherwood, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, offered a variant on this idea, noting that — for heat particularly — the severity of extreme events will change along with the odds:

Climate scientists believe that the frequency and severity of extreme - weather events will increase as temperatures continue to rise.

As climate change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.

A two - degree spike could create freshwater shortages, dry out arable regions, and increase the severity of extreme cyclones, but the challenges would largely be manageable (see «The Planet Fixers»).

An adequately - large ensemble of model runs would provide a distribution of possible severities of an extreme event in control runs and those forced with prescribed carbon emissions.

An adequately - large ensemble of model runs would provide a distribution of possible severities of an extreme event in control runs and those forced with prescribed carbon emissions.

However there is no ready comparator between the number and severity of extremes occurring now and those that occurred in the past.

While extreme events per se are not abrupt climate changes as defined in this report, changes in extreme events could lead to abrupt changes in two ways: (1) an abrupt change in a weather or climate extremes regime, for example a sudden shift to persistent drought conditions; or (2) a gradual trend in the frequency or severity of extremes that causes abrupt impacts when societal or ecological thresholds are crossed, as illustrated in Figure 2.10.

[82] Future warming is projected to have a range of impacts, including sea level rise, [83] increased frequencies and severities of some extreme weather events, [83] loss of biodiversity, [84] and regional changes in agricultural productivity.

Not exact matches

If there is not full support for the hard fork from bitcoin holders, the end result could be a split of Bitcoin into two separate cryptocurrency networks, which could cause extreme brand confusion among the general public (depending on the severity of the split).

Last year, we finally threw up our hands and adapted our approach to require explicit deterioration in market internals before adopting a negative market outlook, regardless of the level of valuations, regardless of the severity of overextended extremes, and with no exceptions.

He very much liked South because of two reasons: he was born and brought up in the South and also the extreme severity of racialism existed in Southern parts.

A particular horror of the sin of paedophilia was instilled in souls by our Divine Master, with words of extreme severity: «If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depths of the sea» (Mt 18:6).

Both the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers» Association (ICMSA) and the Irish Farmers» Association (IFA) have condemned the severity of the drop — particularly the timing, in light of recent extreme weather conditions.

Yep — and that's the reason why the absolute death rate is just as important as the relative — because of the extreme SEVERITY of the outcome (ie dead baby) >

Guardian readers need no reminding of the extreme severity of the benefit cuts — hitting children, mothers and people with disabilities hardest.

For example, extreme droughts may reduce productivity due to water stress and increases in the frequency and severity of forest fires.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Although the DSM - 5 recommends using BMI percentiles for adolescents to denote the severity of the disease from «mild» to «extreme,» the criteria notes «the level of severity may be increased to reflect clinical symptoms, the degree of functional disability and the need for supervision.»

«Rather striking» climate link to Australian heat waves Because temperature extremes are easier to decipher, scientists are fairly confident that global warming increased the severity and likelihood of extreme heat events in 2013 in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China and Europe.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

A close friend of mine has a child -LSB-...] after a couple of weeks on Oceans Alive myself and noticing the calming effect on my own mind, I suggested to his parents that they give this a try, in the hope that it might make the child less stressed and therefore hopefully, maybe reduce the severity of symptoms (I can not begin to describe how extreme these symptoms were).

I know there will be some mixed reviews on the extreme severity of the hem disproportion of this dress.

The usage of leverage has been steadily increased within the financial sector within the years before the global financial economic crisis and has created extreme vulnerabilities and dependencies that have increased the severity of the crisis.

[17] This estimate assumes that for categories with multiple types of offenses with differing levels of severity, the most extreme offense type would be counted.

«The symptoms may vary depending on the severity of depression, and in extreme cases, can even manifest through conditions like vomiting,» says Dr Michelle Chin, veterinarian with The Animal Ark Veterinary Group.

The severity of anemia may range from mild, to moderate, to extreme (life threatening), and it may wax and wane in certain conditions.

Your vet can offer a variety of treatments depending on the severity of the condition, but may include lifestyle changes, anti-inflammatory medications, or, in extreme cases, surgery.

Patella luxation, or knee dislocation, can range in severity from a patella that can be luxated (dislocated) only in extreme extension and then snaps readily into place, to a patella that is permanently luxated medially (toward the center of the dog's body).

Due to the severity of his damage and the extreme expense required to repair him, none of the rescuer's normal shelter contacts would accept him.

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On a more extreme level, in terms of colour, parallels can be drawn between its use in their product and the way that Donald Judd's brightly coloured box sculptures set against his own bare sheet metal works and the severity of Carl Andre's «no compromise» minimalism made the genre approachable, opening the door for Jonathan Ive's groundbreaking, minimalism minus the chill factor, approach at Apple.

The studies have been done, showing no increase in the severity or number of extreme weather events, but since this doesn't fit the narrative, you haven't seen those studies reported.

But you must distinguish between this phenomenon and any phenomenon of greater severity or frequency of extreme weather events.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Mayor Bloomberg — those are the first words to give me hope since I became aware of the extreme severity of the situation in which we find ourselves today.

Positive effects will include modest improvements in cold - related mortality and morbidity in some areas due to fewer cold extremes, shifts in food production, and reduced capacity of disease - carrying vectors (medium confidence), but globally, positive inlpacts will be outweighed by the magnitude and severity of negative impacts (high confidence).

To my eye the summary accurately reflects the body of science aiming to find a signal of greenhouse - gas influence on climate extremes and disaster frequency and severity (the full report is still being finalized).

During times of drought, the feedbacks of higher temperature extremes and dry conditions are likely to amplify both temperature extremes and drought severity in the United States.

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],

There are also multiple studies associating extreme precipitation events with waterborne disease outbreaks.59 This evidence of responsiveness of waterborne disease to weather and climate, combined with evidence strongly suggesting that temperatures will increase and extreme precipitation events will increase in frequency and severity (Ch.