Sentences with phrase «warm weather damaged»

Not exact matches

(Warmer weather can help crops, but it can also damage them, for example, by making pollen infertile.)

Hurricanes, the largest and most damaging weather events, peak in late autumn, when winds coming off the coast of West Africa meet thunderstorms clustered over the warm tropical ocean.

While warmer weather extends the growing season, it also changes the growing zones while also allowing for the survival of agricultural pests and weeds that normally can not endure the cold, putting crops more at risk for damage.

Some plants, such as hickories and oaks, avoid freezing damage by dropping their leaves before the winter chill sets in - effectively shutting off the flow of water between roots and leaves - and growing new leaves and water transport cells when warmer weather returns.

I discovered the hidden damage when the weather got warm enough to wash the car by hand.

When a pondkeeper begins to get ready for warmer weather, retailers should remind them to examine their ponds for damage and clean the pond of any debris.

Unfortunately a large proportion of the fringing coral reef has been damaged by global warming, natural weather action (storms) and destructive fishing practice.

There are now very long odds that human activity is warming the atmosphere; and it is substantially odds - on that this warming is increasing the risk of damaging extreme weather events.

If an increase in extreme weather events due to global warming is hard to prove by statistics amongst all the noise, how much harder is it to demonstrate an increase in damage cost due to global warming?

However, if global warming is your concern, it's important to note that severe weather was not the only or even the main culprit for 2011 — about two - thirds of the total damages and about half of the insured losses can be attributed to two non-weather-related disasters: New Zealand's February earthquake and Japan's earthquake and tsunami in April.

The report says rising sea levels and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as typhoons and floods — all the result of global warming — are claiming lives, destroying or damaging homes and infrastructure, reducing crop yields, and ruining employment prospects.

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«When the natural variability or when the weather is going in the same direction as global warming, suddenly we're breaking records, we're going outside of the bounds of previous experience, and that is when the real damage occurs,» Trenberth says.

We must begin to «adapt» or build «resilience» to climate and weather extremes, the proposition goes, in order to minimize the damage wrought by future warming.

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

«110 times more costly than doing nothing and paying the eventual cost of any damage that might arise from warmer weather this century.»

It's also pretty likely that the El Nino will bring some very damaging weather at various points, which will serve to remind us that flooding is something to respect and yes, fear, whether it's driven by El Nino or by increasing water vapor content due to global warming.

``... When it comes to climate change, it's the fossil fuels we insist on burning — particularly oil — that are the single greatest cause of global warming and the damaging weather patterns that have been its result.»

With global warming making crop - damaging weather ever more likely, building a larger buffer of grain stocks — closer to 110 days of consumption — is more urgent than ever before.

CO2 saves water, grows more food on less water, makes t warmer at night reducing frost damage, supposedly warms the polar regions more then the tropics and sub tropics, creating less energy to drive extreme weather.

As the world wobbles The issue of increased damage from extreme weather driven disasters as a result of climate change is attracts the same polemic that the gallery previously observed about climate change and global warming.

The CFR's Levi was also a lead voice in the «extreme weather» catastrophe choir claiming that the deaths and damage from Tropical Storm Sandy could be laid at the feet of human - caused global warming.

«Stella» is now also «predicted» to inflict winter weather warfare damage in regions of the UK in spite of London remaining warm.

The men and women who bring us our daily TV weather forecasts had their belief in global warming and faith in climate scientists damaged by the «Climategate» scandal say researchers at George Mason University.

And it's downright deceitful to focus on this minucia while ignoring the bigger picture of a warming globe and increasingly stressful extreme weather events that will continue inflicting greater damage on a complex society that seems to be committed to ignoring the consequences of increasing our planet's atmosphere's insulating medium (GHGs) by a third.

The public is beginning to see the danger, too — Midwestern farmers struggling with drought, more damaging wildfires out West, and withering record summer heat across the country — while wondering about possible linkages between rapid Arctic warming and strange weather patterns, like the recent outbreak of Arctic air across much of the United States.»

As the weather warms and Canadian families go from home - bound hibernating to springtime sun - seeking, it's important to make sure that the weather changes do not damage our homes.