Sentences with phrase «sign of heat waves»

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During a historic European heat wave, 36 Nobel laureates signed a declaration on climate change — and tried to shout down the science - denying claims of one of their own

Peter Wilk, the executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, cited the 1995 Chicago heat wave that killed more than 700 people as a sign of things to come.

There is a sweetness that arrives in the first hints of summer... the smell of sunscreen, the buzzing of June bugs and the signs of snow cone stands popping up along the road all reminding us that a heat wave is coming.

That REM lyric has come to mind several times in recent days as the occasional friend or Dot Earth reader has described the spate of devastating floods, heat waves and fires, giant icebergs and other disruptive events as a sign that some momentous unraveling is beginning.

Was the heat wave and drought in the Eastern United States in 1999 a sign of global warming?

16 Sea level rising by thermal expansion AND ice melt Sea ice melting (Arctic and Antarctic) Glaciers melting worldwide Arctic and Antarctic Peninsula heating up fastest Melting on ice sheets is accelerating More severe weather (droughts, floods, storms, heat waves, hard freezes, etc.) Bottom line: These changes do not fit the natural patterns unless we add the effects of increased Greenhouse gasses Signs that global warming is underway

By Bobby Magill / Wunderground, published: August 15, 2013: Devastating drought in the Southwest, unprecedented wildfire activity, scorching heat waves and other extreme weather are often cited as signs of a changing climate.

These warming signs include record rainfalls, and severe snowstorms; extraordinarily destructive hurricanes and tornadoes; heat waves unique in weather annals; widespread droughts and devastating forest fires; unseasonable warmth and cold; and some of the worst floods in recorded weather history.

It would take more immediate signs of crisis — e.g. a January heat wave in Washington — to get Congress to put aside regional differences to act forcefully on climate change.