Check out this exhaustive and in - depth take by Dr. Jeff Masters on the startlingly high number of extreme
weather events of the past year - and - a-half.
Not exact matches
In the
past two
years, warm
weather disrupted the tradition
of playing on the lake, so the
event was moved to Lippold Park.
Due to a heavier than average number
of weather events this
past snow season Oneida County DPW has determined the average cost per mile was higher than the 5
year average contracted amount.
New data show that extreme
weather events have become more frequent over the
past 36
years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological
events compared even with five
years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme
weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up
of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.
According to ClimateWise, a global network
of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive
year on record due to natural disasters and extreme
weather events all over the globe, but over the
past decade only 30 %
of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap
of $ 1.7 trillion.
Perhaps all would be forgiven if M: i: III were competently - directed (while M: I - 2 is one
of the stupidest films ever made, as John Woo is one
of the best action directors
of the
past twenty - five
years, damn if it's not beautiful, coherent, auteurist stupidity), but it's a glassy - eyed, dead thing complete with superfluous flashbacks to
events we don't care about involving characters we don't recognize, an interminable party sequence in which Cruise trots out his smile like it was a
weathered, beaten - down trophy wife, and a smug, self - congratulatory conclusion full
of high - fives, victory arms, and shit - eating grins.
The Royal Meteorological Society is collecting memories
of weather events from the
past 60
years.
The
weather permits the use
of the outdoor areas, and the
past inclusion
of live music, DJs and multimedia artworks has made it a memorable
event on the Summer calendar
year after
year.
The first paper comes from a group
of scientists who have worked to rapidly analyze a number
of extreme
weather events over the
past few
years, including flooding in Europe and Louisiana last
year.
«During the
past year, the American people have been served up an unprecedented parade
of environmental alarmism by the media and entertainment industry, which links every possible
weather event to global warming.
The fact that there has on any basis been little further warming over the course
of the last 10 to 15
years over and above that which had already occured by the mid / late 19902 suggests that recent extreme
weather events are not the consequence
of additional warming (there having been all but none these
past 15
years) and therefore must be due to natural variability
of weather events in an ever changing and chaotic world in which we live.
None
of the best data sets from the
past 200
years are exactly shouting «fire» when it comes to temp, sea level or extreme
weather events.
Over the
past 40
years there has been roughly a quadrupling in the number
of extreme
weather events.
«The meteorologist Jeff Masters wrote on his blog, «Any one
of the extreme
weather events of 2010» — a
year whose litany
of disasters reads much like last
year's — «or 2011 could have occurred naturally sometime during the
past 1,000
years.
That literature — coupled with the astonishing number
of off - the - charts extreme
weather events of the
past few
years — is why more and more climate scientists and meteorologists and others are making the connection.
The frequency
of reported natural disasters has increased over the
past 40
years.19 Three times as many extreme
weather events occurred between 2000 and 2009 as occurred between 1980 and 1989.
«One out
of 10 record - breaking rainfall
events observed globally in the
past 30
years can only be explained if the long - term warming is taken into account,» says co-author Dim Coumou, a PIK researcher into the links between atmospheric circulation and extreme
weather events.
In the
past the negative effect
of unusual
weather events was always temporary; within a
year or two things would return to normal.