Sentences with phrase «weather dice»

So, in effect, we need to find out if we are getting «too many double - sixes» with the British weather dice.

Otto said: «Past greenhouse gas emission and other forms of pollution have loaded the weather dice», adding that she and others were still working on investigating the implications of the results, for river flows, flooding and ultimately the threat to property and lives.

Otto said greenhouse gas emissions have «loaded the weather dice», so the probability of extremely wet winters has slightly increased.

The chance of a double six with a good pair of dice is one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, you need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

So, in effect, to pin down the role of human influence on climate in the winter that has just ended, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.

We can, however, ask and answer the question how the odds of getting an extremely wet winter has changed due to man - made climate change: have past greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution «loaded the weather dice» towards (or perhaps even away from) and event of this nature?

In a normal climate, if you were rolling the weather dice, you could expect two sides to produce colder than normal weather, two sides to produce normal weather, and two sides to produce hotter than normal weather.

How much has the additional 110ppmv CO2 loaded the weather dice?

So, in effect, to pin down the role of human influence on climate in 2013, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.

The chance of a double six with a fair pair of dice is only one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, we need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

So, in effect, we need to find out if we are getting «too many double - sixes» with the weather dice.

We can, however, ask the question how the odds of getting an extremely hot summer, or extremely severe drought, have changed due to man - made climate change: have past greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution «loaded the weather dice» towards (or perhaps even away from) events of this nature?

«For the quasi-biennial oscillation to be disrupted in this way means that we can now perhaps expect the weather dice to be loaded for more winter storms across northern Europe in the coming months,» he said.

«Where and when extreme weather events occur is still largely a matter of luck,» explains Professor Myles Allen of the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, a co-author on three of these new studies, «but science can help us understand how different factors are loading the weather dice.»