Sentences with phrase «severity of heat»

The number and severity of heat waves have increased in recent decades and is projected to continue increasing into the 21st century.

The changing climate also increases health risks, the most deadly being a rise in the frequency and severity of heat waves.

Health effects from increased frequency and severity of heat waves, exposure of low - lying coastal areas to severe storms and sea level rise, increased frequency and severity of drought, river flooding, wildfires, and so forth — a wide range of impacts that can have a range of implications for human health and for disruption of our society.

This also means there is nothing remotely inconsistent in claiming on the one hand a cold weather event is not evidence of a not - warming or cooling climate and at the same time saying that the increased incidence and severity of heat wave weather events are consistent with and, indeed, anticipated by a warming climate.

The point is not what has happened but what will happen, and it is not controversial to say that increased incidence and severity of heat waves will create more crop failures in direct proportion with their increased incidence and severity (climate change bulls will claim offsets to cold snaps at higher latitudes rather than debate this point).

Even a small change in average global temperature leads to a big change in the frequency and severity of heat waves.

We have seen increases in the length and severity of heat waves.

Among the reports new conclusions on health: «An increased frequency and severity of heat waves is expected, leading to more illness and death, particularly among the young, elderly, frail, and poor.»

With global warming just beginning, heat waves are rare now; but the frequency and severity of heat waves will increase with time.

Numerous studies have documented that human - induced climate change has increased the frequency and severity of heat waves across the globe.5 6 7 8 9

With global warming just beginning, heat waves are rare now; but the frequency and severity of heat waves will increase with time.

A city's water availability, through rainfall or irrigation, dictates its evaporative cooling effects on temperature, which reduces the severity of a heat wave.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

Not exact matches

The severity and the heat of the fire would mean it is an absolute miracle for anyone to be left alive.»

«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.

The researchers found that this «practice run» induces heat shock responses in the coral that reduce their severity of bleaching and mortality.

Heat stress affects ruminants through numerous physiological mechanisms (Nardone et al. 2010; Sevi and Caroprese 2012), and the timing, genetic make - up, and other variables determine the severity of the impacts (Bohmanoa et al. 2008; Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2008; Baumgard and Rhoads 2012).

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According to JEff Novick, Advanced Glycation End - products are considered toxic molecules formed by heating foods and are thought to increase the risk and severity of many diseases including the metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, arthritis, Alzheimer's Disease, and cancer.

Reduce length and severity of colds or the flu - The radiant heat can increases circulation and the improved circulation may boost your body's production of white blood cells which help combat illnesses.

The prognosis depends on the severity of the hyperthermia, the length of time hyperthermia persisted, and the physical condition of the pet prior to the heat stroke.

If you think your pet has injured or burned their paws in the summer heat, please schedule an appointment with one of our vets to determine the severity of the wounds and to see if antibiotics or pain medications are needed.

One coast's version of text art might have Lawrence Weiner and then Barbara Kruger, who grew up in New York and Newark, and the growing political heat from one to the other has something to do with changes from the severity of Minimalism to the culture wars.

As with other environmental hazards, from earthquakes to storms, any societal impact will always be a function of the severity and frequency of the danger (in this case periods of high heat), the number of people exposed and their capacity to withstand the threat.

According to Tim Ingraham, Co-Owner of Rook Energy Solutions, «electricity is far and away the most costly way to heat your home, therefore location and severity of climate will certainly play into the decision.

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:

The increasing severity of Australian heat waves are part of a long - term global trend towards more heat waves and hot weather in many regions, a trend that is very likely influenced by human - driven climate change.

Reducing heat - trapping gas emissions will reduce the severity of these impacts.

The ongoing warming trend — as well as the increasing frequency and severity of high - humidity heat waves — is ultimately driven by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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],

Warming accelerates land - surface drying as heat goes into evaporation of moisture, and this increases the potential incidence and severity of droughts, which has been observed in many places worldwide (Dai 2011).

It's clear that weather stations on land show average air temperatures are rising, and as a result, the frequency and severity of droughts and heat waves are increasing.

Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human - heated climate, with warming from elevated levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases seen by many climate scientists as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year.

Scientists are also confident that heating of the deep oceans and melting of land ice will lead to continued sea level rise, which will heighten the risk of coastal flooding and the severity of coastal hazards during stormy episodes.

Those two companies manufactured fossil fuels that have contributed to global warming and thereby increased the number and severity of wildfires, droughts, and flash flooding, while also worsening air quality, harming forest health, and increasing mortality from heat waves.

It is still a matter of debate whether climate change will increase the number of hurricanes, but it is more and more clear that human - caused heating of the planet will boost their severity.

Already, scientists have become much less reticent in tying the likelihood and severity of certain extreme events directly to global warming, particularly heat waves.

Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said record heat was «yet another indication of the severity of the climate problem» and should add urgency to government plans to be submitted to the United Nations.

[5] Extreme heat and years of ongoing drought, both linked to climate change, are increasing wildfire risk in California by contributing to the frequency and severity of wildfires in recent decades.

But the mass bleaching and mortality happening (and dominating reef impact) now is specifically from heat stress, quite clear both from physiological understanding of bleaching and the fact that bleach severity / mortality overlaps so clearly with SSTs.

Extreme heat and years of ongoing drought, both linked to climate change, are increasing wildfire risk in California by contributing to the frequency and severity of wildfires in recent decades.

While a range of factors can contribute to warmer seawater, both the frequency and severity of these bleaching events is expected to increase in line with global temperatures, as the ocean absorbs much of the extra heat.

The frequency and intensity of forest fires in the region have been increasing along with rising temperatures.5, 7,13 An average of around 9.9 million acres (4 million hectares) of boreal forest burned annually in Russia from 1975 to 2005 — and that rate more than doubled in the 1990s.15 One of West Siberia's largest forest fires on record occurred in 2003, claiming some 47 million acres (20 million hectares) of land7, 15 and emitting heat - trapping emissions equal to the total cuts in emissions the European Union pledged under the Kyoto Protocol.2, 7,16 Higher temperatures and thawing permafrost are probably contributing to the rising frequency and severity of forest fires in West Siberia.5, 7,14

Children suffer directly from the increased severity and duration of heat waves.

Everyone has heard — especially after last summer — how human use of fossil fuels to produce energy will increase the frequency and severity of killer heat waves.

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

If the extra heat stored in the oceans is released into the atmosphere, then the severity of storms will inevitably increase.

«New report finds human - caused climate change increased severity of 2013 heat waves in Asia, Europe and Australia,» National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

For example, looking at New Zealand's heat waves, «five independent studies all pointed toward human influence having a substantial increase in the likelihood and severity of the record 2013 temperatures in Australia.»