Sentences with phrase «warming given the storms»

But has global warming given the storms an added punch, making the aftereffects more dreadful?

Not exact matches

With a warming climate battering the coast with more severe storms, the research suggests that, to protect coastal communities, managers may want to give weight to the virtues of the non-native species.

Given the drought that already afflicts Australia, the crumbling of the sea ice in the Arctic, and the increasing storm damage after only 0.8 °C of warming so far, calling 2 °C a danger limit seems to us pretty cavalier.»

Although it stands to reason that a warming climate could worsen storm intensity since a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, Henson cautioned, «Even when researchers find that a given type of disaster has become more likely, a rare event is still going to be rare — and it can occur without any help from greenhouse gases.»

But it would be considerably more powerful to say that because of the warming of the planet, a storm like Harvey was statistically more likely to occur — and give the odds.

«Given the drought that already afflicts Australia, the crumbling of the sea ice in the Arctic, and the increasing storm damage after only 0.8 °C of warming so far»

Given the drought that already afflicts Australia, the crumbling of the sea ice in the Arctic, and the increasing storm damage after only 0.8 °C of warming so far, a target of 2 °C seems almost cavalier.

Given the drought that already afflicts Australia, the crumbling of the sea ice in the Arctic, and the increasing storm damage after only 0.8 °C of warming so far, calling 2 °C a danger limit seems to us pretty cavalier.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

Given that 1985 was the last year with temperatures below the 20th century average, and 2000 - 2010 was the hottest decade on record, it has become impossible to say for certain that any given storm is free from the influence of our warmed wGiven that 1985 was the last year with temperatures below the 20th century average, and 2000 - 2010 was the hottest decade on record, it has become impossible to say for certain that any given storm is free from the influence of our warmed wgiven storm is free from the influence of our warmed world.

Yes, to get a really good tropical storm, you need tropical warm waters and an arctic airflow above it, giving a huge temperature gradient in the atmosphere (low level warm air and freezing air above).

At both events, Gray gives his standard arguments about global warming, bracketing a dispassionate discussion of the upcoming tropical storm season by his young protege, Phil Klotzbach.

We should DITCH IT and give Senator Barbara boxer the chance to work with Congressman Markey and President Obama to figure out a saner approach toward navigating this nation (and the globe) through the perfect storm of Peak Oil and Global Warming.

The observations showed that when the usual shallow cumulus clouds give way to the MJO's towering cumulonimbus storms, radiant heat trapped by clouds and moisture gradually warms a deeper column of the lower atmosphere while the tops of the storms radiate heat into space, cooling the upper troposphere.

• Climate change appears to worsen the region's vulnerability to hurricanes, as warming seas give rise to more energetic storms.

There is a separate issue as to how far warming alone does give rise to more and bigger storms but that is not relevant here.

Why isn't man made develoment, farming hydromodifcation, and storm water facilities given more of the blame for global warming?

Global warming may give such storms more energy.

Recall the Webster et al. paper on hurricanes and global warming [link], that created quite a media storm given its publication shortly after Hurricane Katrina.

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.

As winter gives way to warmer weather and spring begins to bloom, heavy rain storms pose a threat to homeowners.