Sentences with phrase «unusual weather event»

It is impossible to pin any single unusual weather event on global warming, but emerging evidence suggests that global warming is already influencing the weather.

Peter Stott of the UK Met Office in Exeter headed a project looking at six unusual weather events in 2011.

«I think these unusual weather events may be an underappreciated mechanism underlying rapid evolution,» Brown says.

Theoretically, standing jet stream waves with large amplitude north / south undulations should cause unusual weather events.

In North America, scientists have also linked unusual weather events — including ice storms, droughts and mudslides — to the arrival of an El Niño.

Every single person I interact with in my daily life believes unusual weather events are the result of human caused climate change.

The experiment that will be run with this model will initially be looking at the influence of human - caused climate change on two unusual weather events in 2004/5: the very wet winter season over the northwest of Mexico and the anomalous wet summer over the southeast of Mexico, which was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history.

In the past the negative effect of unusual weather events was always temporary; within a year or two things would return to normal.

Not exact matches

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

Storm Frank is the latest freak weather event made possible by an unusual combination of factors that may persist for years to come

It was a very unusual, extreme weather event.

The link between human activity and unusual jet stream patterns associated with extreme weather events is getting stronger, says Olive Heffernan

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

Dolphin deaths are being monitored by an ongoing Unusual Mortality Event (UME) survey, which began in response to high numbers of adult dolphins dying during a period of sustained cold weather in early 2010.

The link between human activity and unusual jet stream patterns associated with extreme weather events is getting stronger

But he added that space weather scientists are paying closer attention to this event than might otherwise be warranted because two back - to - back CME events, both directed at Earth, is a bit more unusual, and because it's possible that the two could interact on their way to Earth.

Such mixed results aren't unusual in attribution science, which seeks to look for the causes, whether climate change or natural fluctuations, that change the odds of extreme weather events.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

If you were able to attend the event, you know it was raining and the unusual weather was bookended by sunnier days.

- Notice if a contact seems out of touch or out of kilter: people offering foreign numbers for contact, people who seem not to be aware of things happening in the UK — events, the weather etc, people who want or need to send messages at unusual hours.

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

These include war, or threat of war, riots, civil strife, terrorism, contamination, extreme or unusual weather conditions, industrial disputes, changes to sports itineraries, natural and nuclear disasters, fire, flight cancellations or rescheduling by airlines or any similar event beyond our control.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

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.

While it is true that any one particular storm or weather event can not be attributed to climate change alone, unusual rain such as this is precisely the type of «global weirding» that climate scientists have predicted would occur as the climate warmed.

So you will see some weather events that might be considered «unusual» compared to the recent past.

One political implication of this normalization process is that if global warming proceeds slowly enough, then the potential exists that we will just progressively become more used to unusual weather — the unusual (by today's standards) becomes usual, and we will cease being alarmed about what is now the usual course of events.

I think of those who struggle everywhere but now, especially, I think of the Yawanawá people whose village was devastated by unusual early flooding and of Acre's increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

The paper considers the necessary components of a prospective event attribution system, reviews some specific case studies made to date (Autumn 2000 UK floods, summer 2003 European heatwave, annual 2008 cool US temperatures, July 2010 Western Russia heatwave) and discusses the challenges involved in developing systems to provide regularly updated and reliable attribution assessments of unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events.

Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

We've seen a number of extreme weather events that are unusual in their persistence.

The link between adverse impacts such as more wildfires, ecosystem changes, extreme weather events etc. and their mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas emissions hinges on detecting unusual events for at least the past century and then actually attributing them to human caused warming.

Instead of science, activists invoke morality, imply natural weather events are unusual, appeal to authority and use name - calling, ridicule and emotion.

«The climate has always changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates of change of temperature, of ice volume, of sea level or of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

New Report: «Extreme Weather Report 2012»: «Latest peer - reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is «unprecedented» or a «new normal» — Climate Depot's New 35 - Page Report: «Current weather is neither historically unprecedented, nor unusual» — «Extreme weather events are ever present, and there is no evidence of systematic increases» — Presented at UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 6, 2012

Since the TAR, unusual extreme weather events have occurred in most countries, such as continuous drought / flood episodes, the Hurricane Catarina in the South Atlantic, and the record hurricane season of 2005 in the Caribbean Basin.

Modern temperatures, sea levels, and extreme weather events are neither unusual nor unprecedented.

There have been a few unusual weather patterns / events that have helped though.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

Unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events are of great public concern and interest, yet there are often conflicting messages from scientists about whether such events can be linked to climate change.

Although the hills of central Kentucky have very mild weather, you still want to have the right insurance in the unusual event of a thunderstorm or tornado.