Sentences with phrase «tropical cyclone damages»

It does mean that efforts to justify emissions reductions based on future tropical cyclone damages are misleading at best, given that available alternatives have far greater potential to achieve reductions in damage.

Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, «efforts to justify emissions reductions based on future tropical cyclone damages are misleading at best, given that available alternatives have far greater potential to achieve reductions in damage.»

(Second aside: As far as I know, only for the US have settlement trends been shown to be the dominant factor in tropical cyclone damages.

Resettlement of US residents will also have no effect on tropical cyclone damages in the rest of the world.

«If tropical cyclone damage rates are stable over a long period, the long - term loss and gain will balance out,» Fisk told environmentalresearchweb.

So far, no residual trend, whether as a result of anthropogenic climate change or otherwise, has been detected in normalized US tropical cyclone damage.

Think of it this way — if there is no chance of observing the effects of changes in PDI in the global impacts record for 50 years (Emanuel's estimate) and over that same time period we expect damage to increase in real terms by up to a factor of 32 (a real doubling in damages every 10 - 15 years), then I think that it is safe (and also responsible) to assert that over that time period the only policies that can have a discernable effect on tropical cyclone damage around the world will necessarily be adaptive.

Not exact matches

Tropical cyclones can have devastating effects, with costly damages and loss of human lives.

This spatial distribution places them at risk of severe damage by tropical cyclones.

«When you hear about hurricanes or tropical cyclones you think about storm surges and wind damage near the coast,» says Villarini, who also conducts research at the internationally renowned IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering.

David — In my earlier comment, I pointed out that we don't know whether future tropical cyclones will be more or less damaging than previous ones, particularly since adaptive measures are being undertaken in some vulnerable areas (e.g., Bangladesh).

With widespread social and economic impacts associated with a cyclone's power, improving the accuracy of tropical cyclone forecasts is of paramount importance for mitigating damage.

Despite the fact that most tropical cyclones do not hit the Hawaiian Islands, FEMA has designated the entire state as a «Wind - Borne Debris Region,» meaning that the risk of wind damage is significant.

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Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

(The crown - of - thorns starfish has done about 42 % of the damage observed, with the rest attributed to tropical cyclones.)

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

This is a lowball estimate, but even at this level you're going to see increased coastal erosion, and much more damaging storm surges — even at the present frequency and severity of tropical cyclones.

Mozambique suffered its worst floods in six years in February, followed by a tropical cyclone the same month, and flooding of the Nile River in June caused damage in Sudan.

This paper examines future economic damages from tropical cyclones under a range of assumptions about societal change, climate change and the relationship of climate change to damage in 2050.

It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.

Using a modern tropical cyclone model (simulating the famous hurricane Andrew of 1992, which was forecast to make landfall around Miami) they find cyclone modification is indeed theoretically capable of reducing hurricane development and storm damage.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

Warmer sea surface water can severely damage coral reefs, facilitate algal blooms, and together with warmer air temperature over the oceans, can increase the destructive potential of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

The kind of things I'm referring to are more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding and droughts, sea level rise and its associated impacts, glacier melt, damage to sensitive ecosystems, increased tropical cyclone activity, increased hurricane strength, ocean acidification.

«A future challenge is to combine the proposed method with the simulation of tropical cyclones in order to predict the area of crop damages under global warming conditions,» said Masutomi.

Damage incurred by tropical cyclones is overwhelmingly and disproportionately incurred by the most powerful storms, indicating that overall damage will increase as the climate Damage incurred by tropical cyclones is overwhelmingly and disproportionately incurred by the most powerful storms, indicating that overall damage will increase as the climate damage will increase as the climate warms.

So, no matter what this year's U.N. climate confab does (forecast: nothing significant), it will not result in any meaningful changes to damages from future tropical cyclones.

Hurricane insurance covers wind - related damage caused by hurricanes, tropical cyclones and tropical storms.

Despite the fact that most tropical cyclones do not hit the Hawaiian Islands, FEMA has designated the entire state as a «Wind - Borne Debris Region,» meaning that the risk of wind damage is significant.