Sentences with phrase «weather events around the world»

The research will become important across agricultural regions, she says, as climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events around the world.

World food prices hit a record high in December thanks to crop failures from a series of extreme weather events around the world

A new initiative has been launched by the UN to better understand and quantify the impact of extreme weather events around the world.

Carbon Brief mapped studies of extreme weather events around the world and found that 63 % of those studied were made more likely or more severe by human - caused climate change.

We are pleased to announce that we are starting a new collaborative project with Climate Central that aims to demonstrate the feasibility of near real - time attribution studies for extreme weather events around the world.

Much ado has been made recently in the media and the blogosphere of recent extreme weather events around the world: the flooding in Tennessee and Pakistan, the Moscow heat waves, record drought in the Amazon, and yet more flooding in Queensland and Brazil.

In addition to providing details on the evolving cloud population critical to the MJO, the findings may also help illuminate how the MJO interacts with other climate patterns, like El Niño, allowing scientists to better predict and prepare for weather events around the world.

Karsten Haustein is a postdoctoral researcher working on the World Weather Attribution project, developing the capability to perform quasi-real time attribution analysis of extreme weather events around the world on an operational basis.

Not exact matches

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

If strong, the El Niño event could not only wreak havoc on weather around the world, but could also trigger a resumption of global warming that has been seemingly stalled for the last 15 years.

For the fourth year in a row it investigates the causes of a wide variety of extreme weather and climate events from around the world, including eight studies using weather@home simulations.

Scientists keep a close eye on its status as events can cause devastating extreme weather around the world.

Number three is the non-stop extreme weather events popping up around the world.

There are no dynamic events giving the world a more realistic feel; there is no day / night cycle or weather system; while the NPCs do roam around a bit (and will panic or alert the police if they notice you doing something you shouldn't), they're clearly not following proper schedules of their own.

I know we have wild weather events every year, but for some reason, standing back and taking note of all the cyclones, earthquakes, tornadoes and wilfires happening simultaneously presently, I can't help but wonder what else is coming around the world, and then where I live.

The peer - reviewed report, compiled by 378 scientists from 48 countries around the world, notes that back - to - back La Niñas (the build - up of cool waters in the equatorial eastern Pacific as part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle) in 2011 affected regional climates and influenced many of the world's significant weather events throughout the year.

What the industry describes as extreme weather events have increased in number and severity as the global climate system has altered, causing more and bigger hurricanes, typhoons and heatwaves around the world.

Times of India: World climate change negotiators faced warnings on Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok.

Hansen said increased warming caused by man's use of fossil fuels would lead to extreme weather events and presented a danger to millions around the world.

The bleaching of coral reefs around the world, increasing extreme weather events, the melting of large ice sheets and recent venting of methane from thawing permafrost make it abundantly clear that the earth is already too hot.

The statement includes a list and description of major weather and climate events around the world in 2013, such as Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) which devastated parts of the Philippines, and the severe floods in the Alps and various European countries.

At a time when global warming is projected to produce more extreme weather, the study provides the most comprehensive look yet at the influence of such events on crop area, yields and production around the world.

Politicians fiddle while climate related extreme weather events — floods, droughts, wildfires, tornadoes, heat waves — increase in the US and around the world.

Researchers around the world studied six extreme weather events.

On the whole, Betts noted, food security would be at risk around the world, not just due to changing crop yields but also because of extreme weather events.

One of the major findings is an increase in key types of extreme weather events, especially in heat waves and large precipitation events, in the U.S. and around the world over the last 50 years.

And it would generate public money that's desperately needed to help ordinary people around the world deal with increasingly frequent extreme weather events that wreak havoc on agriculture, food security, public health, infrastructure, transportation, livelihoods and lives.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

Rather than making connections between the destruction in Joplin and the floods and fires and droughts happening around the world, he argued, «It's far smarter to repeat to yourself the comforting mantra that no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change.»

Extreme weather events are causing suffering around the world.

(07/10/2012) It's not only the U.S. that has experienced record - breaking extreme weather events recently, in the last couple months extreme weather has struck around the world with startling ferocity.

If strong, the El Niño event could not only wreak havoc on weather around the world, but could also trigger a resumption of global warming that has been seemingly stalled for the last 15 years.

As the most recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change notes, the impacts of climate change are already being felt around the world as seas rise, extreme weather events increase, areas suffer drought or flood, and plants and animals edge closer to extinction.

Extreme weather events and disasters are undercutting food security for millions around the world, especially among poor developing nations, the WRO wrote, adding that 23.5 million people were displaced in 2016 by weather - related disaster, creating a flood of climate refugees throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Meanwhile, a flood of new research has convincingly connected a rise in extreme weather events, especially droughts and heatwaves, to global climate change, and a recent report by the DARA Group and Climate Vulnerability Forum finds that climate change contributes to around 400,000 deaths a year and costs the world 1.6 percent of its GDP, or $ 1.2 trillion.