Sentences with phrase «unprecedented heat waves»

A parade of unprecedented heat waves is the likely cause.

I have to say that it takes a special sort of studied obtuseness to look at all the events we are hearing about — unprecedented heat waves in Russia, flooding in Oz, S. America, etc. and say «Meh!»

Moscow, which has already recorded unprecedented heat waves this century, will experience permanent change in 2063.

Heading into the summer of 2017, California's energy markets witnessed unprecedented heat waves, resulting in a very high number of calls, which signaled a need for resources that could act quickly to increase energy supply or reduce demand in order to prevent widespread blackouts.

Environment ministers and their representatives from 29 countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in climate negotiations will meet in Berlin for two days starting July 14 even as increasing instances of unprecedented heat waves and cold winters illuminate the urgent need for a global plan to counter climate change.

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

Do the ERAINT and ERA40 provide a sufficient basis for making meaningful inferences about extreme temperatures and unprecedented heat waves?

Australia's unprecedented heat wave.

Meteorologists used royal purple to denote an off - the - charts high temperature of 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), part of an unprecedented heat wave and ongoing wildfires occurring down under this month.

According to NASA satellite data, almost all of the surface of Greenland experienced surface melt during an unprecedented heat wave in mid-July.

5.3.4 In Europe, wide ranging impacts of changes in current climate have been documented: retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons, shifts in the geographic spread of species, and health impacts due to an unprecedented heat wave.