Sentences with phrase «than heat waves»

I live in Adelaide (home of «the acute Mark Thomson of the Institute for Backyard Studies:) and climate change is hitting home in more ways than the heat wave we experienced this summer.

... climate change is hitting home in more ways than the heat wave we experienced this summer... the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.»

«Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold.

Not exact matches

In March 2012, for example, a heat wave in Ontario caused fruit trees to blossom five weeks earlier than usual — and then frosts in April destroyed approximately 80 per cent of apple blossoms.

Thanks to the odd and extended heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest, which seems to honestly have lasted all summer long, our berry season started earlier than usual — but that means, it has been ending earlier than usual.

As the heat wave of summer approaches, we can't think of a better way to cool off than with a smoothie that's both healthy and indulgent.

I did a huge - ass Sunday cook - up this week because I didn't want to turn on my oven any more than I needed to during a heat wave.

If you really want a drink to beat Heat waves in summer then you can't get anything better than Namkin Lassi or Chaas.

With time running out in the final heat, he paddled straight into the path of the 40 - foot waves, rather than taking the long way around.

Water heats more slowly than land, creating pressure differences that drive high - speed winds; fast - burning fires spawn flame - breathing vortices; the pressure waves of a plane on takeoff transform water into ice.

Europe's 2003 heat wave left more than 70,000 dead, almost 20,000 of them in France.

Heat waves swept across Europe in 2003 and 2005 and killed more than 70,000 people.

Noah Diffenbaugh, the Stanford researcher who led that report, found that climate change had made the likelihood of such a heat wave four times more likely than in a world without elevated levels of greenhouse gases.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

These models might be able to peer up to 50 years ahead and «show regional events, like a heat wave in India, rather than just global trends, like higher temperatures,» says Kate Evans, a scientist at the lab.

The team still doesn't understand the genetic mechanism responsible for the effect, but study author and evolutionary biologist Francisco Rodríguez - Trelles of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona notes a clue: Flies carrying the «summer» inversions to deal with the heat wave produced five times more offspring than they would have in ordinary years.

For their part, though, global warming skeptics such as atmospheric physicist Fred Singer maintain that cold weather snaps are responsible for more human deaths than warm temperatures and heat waves.

Last summer's record heat wave in Russia sparked forest fires that raged for months and ultimately caused more than 55,000 deaths.

Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.

The striking lag time, which tended to be about two weeks after a temperature drop, although some extended to 28 days, seem to be more pronounced with cold weather heart troubles than in those spurred by heat waves.

But as the heat wave stretched from days to weeks, Coral Sea temperatures spiked more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, and many corals succumbed to starvation or disease.

In the summer of 2016, temperatures in Phalodi, an old caravan town on a dry plain in northwestern India, reached a blistering 51 °C — a record high during a heat wave that claimed more than 1600 lives across the country.

For starters, because their heat waves are concentrated on the food, microwaves cook and heat much faster than traditional ovens.

Heat waves in cities interact synergistically with the urban heat island effect to raise temperatures more than would be expected from a simple summation calculatHeat waves in cities interact synergistically with the urban heat island effect to raise temperatures more than would be expected from a simple summation calculatheat island effect to raise temperatures more than would be expected from a simple summation calculation.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

The new method uses shock waves to heat the metals to extremely high temperatures — 2,000 degrees Kelvin (more than 3,140 Fahrenheit) and higher — at exceptionally rapid rates, both heating and cooling them in the span of milliseconds.

This happens in part because trees in warmer, maritime forests radiate heat in the form of long - wave radiation to a greater degree than the sky does.

During the 2003 heat wave in Europe, reactors at inland sites in France were shut down or had their power output reduced because the water receiving the discharge was already warmer than environmental regulations allowed.

In some cases, the probability of a heat wave was more than quadruple what would be expected by chance.

But a new analysis of more than six decades of daily temperature and snowfall data by Cohen and his team suggests arctic heat waves may actually be linked to severe cold weather at lower latitudes... perhaps through the polar vortex.

Scientists have fingerprinted a distinctive atmospheric wave pattern high above the Northern Hemisphere that can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat waves in the United States more than two weeks in advance.

Infalling material smashes into the star, creating a shock wave and heating the accreting gas to temperatures greater than 5 million degrees Fahrenheit.

«Though heat waves rarely are given adequate attention, they claim more lives each year than floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined,» warns the EPI.

According to the experiments of Langley, the carbon dioxide and the water vapor, which the atmosphere contains, are more opaque to the heat rays of great wave lengths which are emitted by the earth, than to the waves of various lengths which emanate from the sun.

Horton says that people need look no further for the potential dangers than the record 2010 heat wave that hit Russia, killing some 55,000 people, and the 2003 one that killed 70,000 in central and western Europe.

The report says heat waves are especially harmful to black people, who live in urban areas in higher percentages than whites, and who are also more likely to be low - income than other Americans and already suffer from higher asthma rates than whites.

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.

«The increased air pollution that typically accompanies heat waves can especially harm children, who have a higher risk of developing asthma, have lungs that are still developing and growing, and have higher exposure because they breathe at a higher rate than adults and spend more time outdoors engaging in vigorous physical activity.»

A study of the 1995 heat wave in Chicago found higher - than - average mortality rates in areas where businesses were run - down, and dominated by liquor stores and bars.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

With more than 3,500 dead in Paris alone, France suffered nearly 15,000 fatalities from the heat wave.

Extreme heat waves more intense than anything experienced so far on Earth will hit Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Doha, Qatar, and coastal cities in Iran starting in 2070 if climate trends continue, the study found.

Heat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United StaHeat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United Staheat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United States.

April 4, 2018 - The new method uses shock waves to heat the metals to extremely high temperatures — 2,000 degrees Kelvin (more than 3,140 Fahrenheit) and higher — at exceptionally rapid rates, both heating and cooling them in the span of milliseconds.

While this recent heat wave occurred earlier than usual and was widespread, it wasn't nearly as bad as the one that blanketed Europe for weeks in 2003, an event also found to be more likely to happen in a warming world.

April 5, 2018 - The new technique involves using shock waves to heat the metals to exceptionally high temperatures, that is, equal to or more than 2000 K, at extremely rapid rates, heating as well as cooling them within a few milliseconds.

A team of international scientists says that it is virtually certain that the heat wave that stretched across much of Europe in early July was more likely to happen now than in the past due to climate change.

The greatest cause of this heat wave is the shrinkage of winter around the North Pole, which took decades before happening this way, one side of the world is bound to be hotter while the other normal, its been going this way for more than a decade, and its getting hotter during winters; no ice in High Arctic Mid-November (1998), bees in N.Y. January, tulips in the UK February, summer heat in North American March, the spinning of the heat zone during winter will continue and expand.

A statistical analysis of the observations shows that the probability of observing such a heat wave has more than doubled over the past 37 years in most of the affected region.