Sentences with phrase «weather disasters»

See how you can help your local animal and human shelter system so they can help you and other animal owners if 2016 is another year of weather disasters.

Here I present a review and analysis of recent quantitative studies on past increases in weather disaster losses and the role of anthropogenic climate change.

More extreme weather disasters, higher healthcare bills, and an uncertain future for our children, to name only a few costs.

This includes other weather disasters such as tornadoes and floods.

Many people do not know that their basic home insurance policy would not cover them for weather disasters such as earthquakes or floods.

To date, they have been rare (we still see weather disasters as unusual anomalies) and decided on a distributed, ad hoc basis.

This could include a natural weather disaster, such as a tornado, or a building disaster, such as flooding from a nearby rental unit.

Special weather disasters like natural flooding and wildfires usually require separate coverage.

The fossil fuel pollution that's driving global climate change is making weather disasters more destructive.

But she says in a time of climate change, it's important to have enough people to respond to weather disasters without disrupting other important tasks.

Children, especially those who have experienced real weather disasters, may find the movie particularly frightening.

And then there's the communication challenge — particularly in an era that's seen so many high - profile weather disasters of late.

One list of the top 20 world weather disasters of the 20th century illustrates the point.

On the annual basis, more people die in weather - related crashes than in large scale weather disasters.

Report: Climate change behind rise in weather disasters.

While former statistics showed that the total destruction of a house was unlikely, recent statistical data of weather disasters and its devastating results demonstrates quite another picture.

For the first time ever, the One Room Challenge has been extended a week due to natural weather disasters and shipping delays.

Taking into consideration the latest weather disasters, adding insurance cover for hurricane or floods can also be a wise decision.

2011 has distinguished itself as the third most active year on record for hurricanes, and set the record on billion dollar weather disasters in the United States.

Losses from weather disasters are already well into the billions.

Severe weather disasters resulting in power outages cause between US$ 25 billion and $ 70 billion in the U.S. each year - and that's average years, not those including increasingly frequent major storms, like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

What's worse, this is the second major weather disaster after Hurricane Irma to hit the U.S. territory in the past two weeks — and the consequences for its infrastructure, health care and otherwise, will be dire.

The two scientists claimed in Science to have found a relationship between weather disasters and refugees migrating to Europe.

Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were hardest hit by weather disasters in 2012, a report issued at U.N.

Recent research shows how spaces like urban canyons create distinctive weather patterns — and how to prevent them from causing weather disasters.

After Superstorm Sandy ravaged New York City and much of North East last November, half of Republican voters and 73 % of independents said they were worried about weather disasters fueled by global warming, according to a survey by Zogby Aanalystics.

The report focuses on weather disasters since 1980 in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

That could make Hurricane Harvey the costliest weather disaster in U.S. history.

The piece nicely summarizes why this storm, unlike other recent weather disasters with a climate - change component, has prompted so many politicians, including President Obama, to end their self - imposed silence on global warming.

He also invited Vice President Joe Biden to the Capitol to help lay out his plans for better handling future weather disasters.

Recent weather disasters — flooding across Asia and hurricanes hitting the US and Caribbean — have only increased the volume from commentators and politicians who tell us: «This is what climate change looks like.»

Over the past 10 years, 20 billion - dollar weather disasters affected Kansas.

Yes, global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy — and the Midwest droughts and the fires in Colorado and Texas, as well as other extreme weather disasters around the world.

This breaks the previous record for the number of such U.S. weather disasters in an entire year.17

That, in turn, the report argues, will help reduce girls» vulnerability to climate change - related weather disasters.

Over the weekend, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed H.B. 1774 into law and put an end to abusive and frivolous lawsuits surrounding weather disasters such as hailstorms.

At the same time, Cuomo lightly criticized the federal response, saying he understood the federal emergency officials remain on the scene of multiple weather disasters across the country.

Addressing such issues would give the world an opportunity to develop a two - pronged policy in climate security, reducing longer - term climate risks in conjunction with preventing shorter - term weather disasters.»

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

Their efforts are currently being piloted in Jakarta, but they could eventually change the way that disaster response agencies, like the Red Cross, address weather disasters globally.

In 2011, at least 10 major weather disasters struck the United States alone, inflicting more than $ 45 billion in damages.

Germanwatch said Haiti lost 9.5 percent of its economy last year in weather disasters led by Hurricane Sandy.

For additional information on specific tornado and severe weather events during 2015, please visit our monthly reports, the Billion Dollar weather disasters report, the Storm Events Database, and NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.

Rather than climate - change being a catch - all explanation for everything wrong with the weather, public and scientific commentary about the human influences on weather disasters needs to be much more nuanced.»