Sentences with phrase «storms in a warmer world»

Future research topics may explore how the distribution of ocean barrier layers around the world may affect storms in a warmer world.

Tornadoes: There was a spate of Instanet attacks on Senator John Kerry yesterday for discussing projections of stronger storms in a warming world in the context of the catastrophic tornado strikes.

Not exact matches

These are the types of storms climate scientists to expect to see more of in a warmer world.

The research performed at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that part of this will be due to the mechanism they demonstrated, and the other part is tied to the fact that storms are born at a higher latitude in a warmer world.

«Off track: How storms will veer in a warmer world: Research uncovers the internal mechanisms driving storms toward the poles.»

In a warming world, the U.S. could see its cities inundated with water, its power grids threatened by intense storms, its forests devastated by wildfire and insect infestations, and its coastlines washed away by storm surges.

As Chris Mooney relates in Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming (Harcourt, 2007), proponents of both sides of the dispute have had a field day with this question.

If both spatial and temporal changes in storms continue, as they are likely to do as the world warms, there will be more destructive flooding across the world's major urban centres.

It is a reminder that in a warming world, there is also more evaporation to drive storms, which corresponds to heavier precipitation.

If the same conditions that caused the storm had occurred in a world without the warming observed over the last century, it would not have been as severe.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

Experience the rumbling, window - rattling power of our world - famous winter storms or revel in a summer sun - warmed breeze.

And the statement about «storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season» is hard to square with the science on hurricanes in a warming world, which has gotten more nuanced of late, as we've explored here a few times.

The scientific research in this area, and the media frenzy and political theatrics that have inescapably followed it, are thoughtfully placed in a broader historical context in a fascinating new book by Chris Mooney entitled Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming.

The 7,000 islands of the Philippines sit in the middle of the world's most storm - prone region, which gets some of the biggest typhoons because of vast expanses of warm water that act as fuel and few pieces of land to slow storms down.

Eventually, if not right now, we would expect to see increase in storm intensity and perhaps frequency in a globally warming world, all things being equal... which they are not, since even weathermen can't well predict next week's weather due to some butterfly flapping it's wings in Japan gumming up the wind system.

More storms will generate such deluges in a warming world with moister air, according to solid basic science.

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

Storm surge in Australia: There's more to come as world warms by 2100.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

A 2013 follow up report, which focused on impacts of climate change on Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia; tells us that if the world warms by 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years — there will be widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat - waves, and more intense storms.

Gcm or at least the literature have a difficult task reconciling the metrics with two underlying theories of opposing signs with say synoptic storms and baroclinicity due to the reduction in meridional gradient in a warming world, and the increase of water vapor, hence life birth cycles.

'' [S] tudies of storm intensity / frequency in a warming world show changes on the order of 5 to 10 percent several decades from now,» Freedman says.

The current rate of global warming, faster than any observed in the geological record, is already having a major effect in many parts of the world in terms of droughts, fires, and storms.

But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial of water to over a billion people; The deaths of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?

The world didn't buy their «solutions,» even after being inundated in hysterical propaganda attempting to link Tropical Storm Sandy and other «extreme weather» with man - made global warming.

(By the way, Chris Mooney is a visiting associate at the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University, and the author of three books, including «Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics and the Battle Over Global Warming,» which I reviewed here in fall 2007.

* «UK rainfall shows large year to year variability, making trends hard to detect» * «While connections can be made between climate change and dry seasons in some parts of the world, there is currently no clear evidence of such a link to recent dry periods in the UK» * «The attribution of these changes to anthropogenic global warming requires climate models of sufficient resolution to capture storms and their associated rainfall.»

«Until recently, it was widely assumed that coral would bleach and die off worldwide as the oceans warm due to climate change,» explained Jessica Carilli, a coral researcher at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, «this would have very serious consequences, as loss of live coral — already observed in parts of the world — directly reduces fish habitats and the shoreline protection reefs provide from storms.»

The storm fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.

The completely out of control climate engineering cabal continues to «force» the climate system by trying to chemically create short term (and highly toxic) cool - downs in a rapidly warming world (Japan and Europe are also being assaulted by completely engineered storms).

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.