Sentences with phrase «severity of hurricanes»

In 1992, University of Colorado's Dr. William Gray accurately forecasted Hurricane Andrew, and predicted a sharp rise in the number and severity of hurricanes in the near future.

The increased severity of hurricanes, along with rising temperatures and melting polar ice caps, are all linked in some way to the way mankind interacts with the Earth's environment.

While the number of hurricanes has not been increasing, the severity of hurricanes has been on the rise.

Driessen's blog piece is in stark contrast to the views of climatologists including Michael E Mann, who said that climate change has indeed increased the severity of hurricanes like Harvey due to factors like sea level rise attributable to climate change and increased ocean temperatures.

Scientific studies show there is little if any linkage between hurricane frequency and severity with CO2 in the atmosphere, but an objective, common - sense, easy to understand analysis of hurricanes over the past 110 years, also demonstrates that climate change is not affecting the number or severity of hurricanes.

There are, however, several scientific studies that show there has been little if any change in the number or severity of hurricanes over the past several decades.

Sooner or later the increased severity of hurricanes (which are already twice a strong due to higher SST), and increased frequency and severity of El Nino, will have to be called what they are: manifestations of global warming.

Scientists already point to increased severity of hurricanes on the East Coast, major Midwest floods, and shrinking glaciers in the West as proof of global warming's onset.

She was on her way home from a vacation in Munich when she started to realize the severity of the hurricane.

To what extent was the severity of Hurricane Katrina affected by AGW?

Not exact matches

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

Twitter journalists have continued to debate the severity of Lakewood's damage and the role it played in Osteen and Lakewood's response to the hurricane, with supporters and opponents of the church alike posting area photographs to defend their stances.

It is not yet clear how climate change might change the severity or frequency of hurricanes — and thus affect the terns — but it is something to keep an eye on, Pimm says.

The National Hurricane Center's new maps, released as the storm approached the U.S., predicted the location and severity of the surge

The instruments measure how swiftly the water is flowing and determine the severity of the flooding in different regions affected by the hurricane.

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.

In point of fact, there is no trend in hurricane severity.

A report in The Sunday Times on 24 January claimed that the United Nations climate science panel (IPCC) wrongly linked global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

The 2006 Saul / DCI press release quotes the Koch - funded Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels, who stated, «There are many more factors determining hurricane frequency and severity, some of which (such as westerly wind strength) should become LESS conducive to hurricanes as the planet warms.»

They are also more at risk of being affected by the ever - growing number and severity of storms tied to climate change, such as Hurricane Sandy.

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.

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.

Even this year, when three large hurricanes hit the mainland of the United States, the historical record shows no increase in the severity or number of large hurricanes.

And, in addition to the shoreline erosion, the costs, severity, and frequency of extreme storms like Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, and Typhoon Haiyan are expected to increase in those areas.

There is a lot of awareness in the States of the severity of the situation, and maybe this hurricane will foreground it again - another obvious sign that there's a problem.

Since it is a matter of both logic and climate history that the severity and frequency of hurricanes and other extreme weather events happen in the cold times and not the warm times.

An analogy is in those who seem to claim that the destruction of New Orleans was»cause d' by global warming, even if you accept that it was a significant component of the hurricane's severity.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.