Sentences with phrase «taken extreme events»

But few of these studies have taken extreme events like the 1995 drought into account.

But for Democrats to win back Congress, Wang said it «would take an extreme event.

Take the extreme event, a volcano like Pinatubo.

Discussing attribution, is not the same as taking extreme events as indicators that warming is occurring.

Not exact matches

Their portfolio simulation approach: (1) is restricted to the technology, industrials, health care, financials and basic materials sectors; (2) assumes an extreme sentiment day for a stock has at least four novel news items (prior to 3:30 PM in New York) and is among the top 5 % of average daily positive or negative events; (3) makes portfolio changes at market close; (4) holds positions for 20 days, subject to a 5 % stop - loss rule and a 20 % take - profit rule; (5) constrains any one position to 15 % of portfolio value; and, (6) assumes round - trip trading friction of 0.25 %.

Contrary opinion has a history of effectiveness at extremes where a particular event has run its course so fully both in reality and in market prices that it is taken as common knowledge.

The contrarian bettor recognizes that casual bettors make extreme decisions based on small sample sizes, and takes advantages of inflated lines based on recent events.

Granted, the majority of those opposed to Qatar have a plethora of reasons in their arsenal to object to the event; from human rights violations to extreme heat but is another reason for objection because the World Cup is taking place in a Middle Eastern country?

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

The study's findings showed that volatile elements undergo the same chemical reactions during extreme temperature and pressure events whether taking place on Earth or in outer space.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

As with any solar - related event, extreme caution must be taken to avoid eye damage.

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.

However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for economic stability.

First of all, it seems that biodiversity may not offer as much protection if the event in question is very extreme: buffering mechanisms which drive ecosystem resistance, such as compensation by better - adapted species or species taking over the functional role of others (functional redundancy), may simply be overwhelmed in such cases.

One of the extreme events, which has mystified scientists for long, took place 717 million years ago and is called «snowball Earth» — the largest glaciation event in history during which the planet was covered almost entirely in ice.

A new analysis published in the journal Environmental Research Letters establishes that seasonal forecast sea surface temperature (SSTs) can be used to perform probabilistic extreme - event attribution, thereby accelerating the time it takes climate scientists to understand and quantify the role of global warming in certain classes of extreme weather events.

Would it take a much more extreme event, say 8 - sigma, for Madison to have a 122F day in July?

Since marathon is a relatively extreme event for most people, it takes some preparation to do safely.

Taking the extreme example, let's assume you're a redneck from a notoriously white and racist small town that regularly has square dancing events.

What follows is a series of increasingly insane events that take suspension of disbelief to impossible extremes and leave you stupefied wondering when this stopped becoming a film that aimed for a prescient vision of where our reliance on technology was headed and became a corny after school special from the»80s warning us of a future that's never going to happen.

In the face of so many extreme weather events rocking the world in recent weeks, Gerard Butler recently sat down with CinemaBlend and explained what he thinks audiences will take away from Geostorm.

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Take on 24 all - new Race, Pursuit, Hot Lap and Drift events, all staged in the Carnival Festival on six extreme racing circuits — with 72 medals to win before you challenge your friends and rivals worldwide to make sure you're faster than them all on every event!

This time around it's developed by Digital Extremes (developer of Pariah and more recently Dark Sector) and takes place two years after the events of the Starbreeze developed original game.

Taking place after the events of the first Devil May Cry, this sequel strives for a more cinematic look and feel to combat, changing things up in how the camera behaves, but also taking extreme care to make the animations more natural and Taking place after the events of the first Devil May Cry, this sequel strives for a more cinematic look and feel to combat, changing things up in how the camera behaves, but also taking extreme care to make the animations more natural and taking extreme care to make the animations more natural and fluid.

What I do see, however, is a coming era where every single unusual and / or extreme weather event gets blamed on «climate change» by die hard zealots, who then proceed to attack anyone and everyone who failed to take the extreme measures they insisted on.

Taking your 75 % number as an example, I think they understand something like this: «75 % of the strength of this extreme event is attributable to global warming», or «There's 75 % chance that this event would not have occurred without global warming».

My aim in this post was not to show that climate scientists are wrong (though many certainly are) but to provide some examples of how easy it is to cherry pick supposedly extreme events or precarious situations, taken out of context, to cow the public into accepting an extremist ideology.

To finish the thought, if an extreme weather event, wind, flood, drought, fire, and its concomitants famine, disease, and war, takes a life, a house, a livelihood, that is indelible.

Could this happen as a result of some extreme weather event, creating an extra ice horizon which is mistakenly taken as an annual layer?

Given the data that exists do we have any idea how long it would take to get a reasonable confidence level that extreme events are or are not increasing?

Take a look at a few of the figures illustrating the intensity and impacts of 2012's extreme weather and climate events:

Thus care must be taken to do a proper analysis when asking about extreme events.

«The action we take now in terms of getting emissions down... will have a big effect on what these extreme events will look like in the future,» Professor Steffen said in Sydney.

When an extreme climate event takes place, a range of users would like to know as soon as possible not only how rare this particular event is but also whether it could be attributed to climate change or if, instead, it is part of the climate variability one would expect in the absence of climate change.

Citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Global Climate Deal (A-FAB) coalition said typhoons and other extreme weather events would become more intense and frequent unless governments took immediate steps to move toward a low - carbon economy.

Safa» Al Jayoussi, Executive Director / IndyACT, said: «Concrete steps were taken in this year's COP23, now we need to move this into action toward pre-2020 ambition on the local and subregional level, especially from the Arab Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.»

Looking at the extreme climate - related events going on around the world right now — not to mention the likelihood that such events will become a lot more extreme and a lot more frequent if no urgent measures are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions — I can well understand Lucas's concern to wake people up.

Pielke warns of a greater public danger than Atlantic storms: «Public discussion of disasters risks being taken over by the climate lobby and its allies, who exploit every extreme event to argue for action on energy policy.»

These changes don't automatically generate extreme weather events but they change the odds that such events will take place.

If an extreme event is dependent on many different factors, and you take one away, you won't get such an extreme event, she says:

Luterbacher et al. (13) estimated a return period for this type of extreme event as being about 100 y in the European region, taking climatic warming into account.

Emergency action is a call increasingly being taken up by leading scientists and responsible leaders around the world as extreme events escalate.»

That extreme / severe weather events took place regularly prior to «unsafe» atmospheric CO2 levels (over 350ppm) were reached in the 1990s.

You see it's hard for people to understand «climate change» when it takes a century to reveal itself, so «climate» has to be turned into «weather»... which is a short term event people can relate to... and if you make extreme weather «weird»... well then the weather (climate) isn't what it used to be and can be fingered out as «real time climate change».

Background In a warming world, it is increasingly important for policy development, decision - making and investments at the national and local scale to take into account changing patterns of extreme weather and climate - related events.

For example, a key uncertainty is how systems will respond during extreme events and how people will adjust their short - to long - term planning to take account of a dynamic climate.

Many societies have taken measures to cope with historical weather extremes, but new, more intense extremes have the potential to overwhelm existing human systems and structures.18 More frequent and more severe extreme weather events are more likely to destabilize ecosystems and cripple essential components of human livelihood, such as food production, transportation infrastructure, and water management.

To achieve this Blue - Action will take a transdisciplinary approach, bridging scientific understanding within Arctic climate, weather and risk management research, with key stakeholder knowledgeof the impacts of climatic weather extremes and hazardous events; leading to the co-design of better services.