Sentences with phrase «stronger storms impacting»

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The stronger forecast is notable not just because it puts oil demand growth at its hottest in a long time, but also because the IEA essentially shrugged off any lingering effects from the storms in the U.S., concluding that the «impact on global markets is likely to be relatively short - lived.»

In 2011, George Amedore was active in connecting state and local resources to families and communities that were impacted by the devastating floods that followed Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, and today, as the Senator for those communities, he remains involved in their efforts to rebuild stronger than ever and is committed to seeing a complete revitalization in the affected communities.

«The models clearly show that pollution originating from Asia has an impact on the upper atmosphere and it appears to make such storms or cyclones even stronger,» Zhang explains.

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

I'm referring to «Atmospheric impacts of the strongest known solar particle storm of 775 AD ``.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

He starts with a description of the impacts of Hurricane Irene once it arrived in the Northeast as a strong tropical storm:

Impacts on sea ice from storms like this are typically due to strong surface winds.

While increases in wind shear could offset the impact of tropical temperatures in some — maybe even the majority — of storm seasons, one might worry about what happens during those seasons where there is anomalously low shear (e.g., a very strong La Niña event).

This storm is intense and it covers a large area so the region of the Arctic that will be impacted by strong winds is quite large.

Whether Irene is a strong tropical storm or hurricane over New England will make little difference in the expected impacts of damaging winds... a dangerous storm surge... and flooding rains.

However, the impact of strong individual storms may be different — the 2012 event appears to have temporarily boosted ice loss by breaking up the ice cover, with the wave action tending to mix warmer waters from below to hasten melt.

«For property and casualty insurers, climate change represents an important challenge because the rising seas, the increased risk of drought, fire and floods, and the stronger storms that may occur will have a huge impact on the claims of the people insured.»

I'm referring to «Atmospheric impacts of the strongest known solar particle storm of 775 AD ``.

As well as climbing temperatures creating stronger winds, rising sea levels mean that when storm surges hit, the flooding impact is likely to be higher.

The stronger fresh water hurricanes is neat, but the Arctic storm with fresh sea ice melt would have a huge impact on Northern Hemisphere heat loss.

The UN climate talks opened on Monday in the backdrop of the devastating impacts of Typhoon Haiyan one of the strongest storms ever to hit landfall.

«Protecting our water sources is a critical component of adapting to climate change impacts like drought, sea level rise, stronger storms, and warmer temperatures — which is why EPA and the Army have finalized the Clean Water Rule to protect these important waters, so we can strengthen our economy and provide certainty to American businesses.»

GAO representatives visited 15 military installations, and at 12 of them found officials who said they had observed not only rising temperatures, stronger and more frequent storms, and changing precipitation patterns, but had also seen how those changes created «potential impacts of mission vulnerabilities,» the report said.

The experts added that the recent increase in the impact of storms was because of more people getting in harm's way, not stronger storms.

The North American east and west coastal regions are both strongly influenced by ETCs and, subsequently, land - based, coastal, and maritime economic sectors in Canada and the USA all experience strong adverse impacts from extratropical storm activity from time to time.

Hertsgaard lays out other projected and potential impacts: harsher heat waves; stronger storms; more disease and pestilence; increased drought and less frequent but more intense heavier precipitation events; more wildfires; lower crop yields; and mass extinctions.

Islanders have expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and the visible changes that are already occurring: increased erosion, strong winds, land accretion, increasing storm frequency and rougher seas of a sort that elders have never seen or heard of before.

Chris Williamson, economist at Markit.com, said the report was surprisingly strong, given the impact of the devastating storm that hit the country's most densely populated region and the political headwinds buffeting the economy.

Yun indicated that the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are still being seen in Texas and Florida, but «sales should completely bounce back to their pre-storm levels by the end of the year, as demand for buying in these areas was very strong before the storms.»