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.
Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy rai
Damage from extreme
weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global
warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane
damage and heavy rai
damage and heavy rainfall.
«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.