Sentences with phrase «weather events become»

As extreme weather events become more frequent because of climate change, climate researchers believe their impacts on ecosystems could cause a vicious cycle of extreme weather, Reichstein said.

At this point, the effects of natural fluctuations in water availability in the form of extreme weather events become even more potentially disruptive than normal.

To the extent that policy makers (such as those controlling the dam in Queensland) are convinced of that certainty, foreseeable severe weather events become unforeseeable (to those policy makers), with sometimes catastrophic consequences.

Keep in mind that as carbon dioxide increases, temperatures also increase, rainfall patterns change, and some kinds of extreme weather events become more common and severe.

As extreme weather events become more common, city planners must learn to work with nature, and quickly.

And it found: «Where extreme weather events become more intense and / or more frequent, the economic and social costs of those events will increase, and these increases will be substantial in the areas most directly affected.»

Looking ahead, the report notes, «Climate change, in tandem with people's increasing exposure and vulnerability, is expected to magnify this trend, as extreme weather events become more frequent and intense in the coming decades.»

An extreme weather event becomes a disaster when society and / or ecosystems are unable to cope with it effectively.

To remove this confusion... all «extreme» weather events became the new «evidence» of a «warmer» climate.

Not exact matches

When the weather is pretty much the same all year long, «seasons» become more about events and holidays than the temperature outside.

He was not the architect of the events that unfolded last week — opposition leaders seldom make the weather like that — but he has become the first leading politician in living memory to get up off his knees and challenge the malign hold Murdoch and his acolytes have on British politics.

And the worst is yet to come: As the global thermostat rises, extreme weather events such as droughts and floods will become more frequent and intense in many regions, the United Nations warns.

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.

Today, ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising, oceans are warming, and weather events are becoming more extreme.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

Moreover, as climate change drives extreme weather events in producer countries, food price increases could become another ticking bomb in the region.

What Welbergen witnessed could be a harbinger of an increasingly dangerous world in which rare weather events such as heatwaves, deluges, droughts and storms become much more common.

Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.

It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no one weather event can be tied to warming temperatures.

As climate change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.

Earth's atmosphere may be more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought, which means that extreme weather events could become more frequent

«We know that sea levels are rising and that coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to extreme weather - and climate - related events.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do justevents that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do justEvents and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

Many recent events - discoveries from sediment cores in New York, drought in Australia and the western United States, data from increasingly sophisticated computer models - lead to a conclusion that the weather driving many of the globe's great breadbaskets will become hotter, drier and more unpredictable.

«Previous scientific studies have shown that extreme weather events are becoming more common, more intense, and longer lasting in response to our changing climate.

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

Since then, Allen and his colleagues have been at the forefront of efforts to say whether particular extreme weather events have become more likely due to climate change.

Extreme climate and weather events such as record high temperatures, intense downpours and severe storm surges are becoming more common in many parts of the world.

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.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

Number one: climate - related extreme weather events have become far more serious and frequent, validating the predictions of the scientific community.

As extreme weather events likely connected to the planet's warming climate become increasingly common, low - income communities are positioned to suffer the worst consequences during the aftermath of natural disasters, write the authors of a report from the Center for American Progress called «One Storm Shy of Despair.»

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

With a changing global climate, the panel members said, what seem to be abnormally frequent, intense or otherwise extreme weather phenomena may become the new «normal» at the same time that humans, expanding to populate more geographical nooks and crannies, become increasingly vulnerable to these events.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

Red areas indicate locations where fire weather conditions are becoming increasingly more severe or anomalously severe weather events are becoming more frequent, while blue areas indicate locations where climatic influences on fire potential are lessening or weather events are becoming less frequent.

The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade promotion has become a bona fide hot weather event in gaming.

The Baths» conditions act to disrupt the narrative flow of the drama so that scenes play out in fits and starts, to incite a profound level of disorientation and to conjure memory where notions of time and space become confused — past historical events and climates arrive in the present much like a sudden change in the weather.

Thus, whenever any extreme weather event occurs, it is interpreted as evidence of «climate change,» which term has become equivalent to AGW, despite the fact that the relation between the two has never been established, but merely assumed.

Richard # 63, for that weather to last long enough to become a climatological forcing (it would have to take gigatons of carbon out of one system and dump it into another) it would either have to be a catastrophic event (clathrates suddenly erupting, supervolcano erupting, etc) or long lasting (in which case open to climatological statistics rather than weather chaotics).

One political implication of this normalization process is that if global warming proceeds slowly enough, then the potential exists that we will just progressively become more used to unusual weather — the unusual (by today's standards) becomes usual, and we will cease being alarmed about what is now the usual course of events.

People here and abroad have gotten engaged where climate trends become obvious like in the Arctic, and when weather events occur that either they believe are to some degree related to the ghg [greenhouse gas] buildup directly, or serve as images of the futures.

The NCA states: «Certain types of weather events have become more frequent and / or intense, including... in some regions, floods and droughts.»

More recently, December became one of the deadliest months of 2015, after a low pressure weather system moved across the central U.S., killing at least 50 people — the most casualties caused by any weather - related event that year.

Can you, for example, provide a list of weather events that will or won't ever happen, and that didn't / did in the past, so that the claim becomes falsifiable?

Global warming may well be unequivocal until it becomes global cooling at which time the proposed null hypothesis still stands except it now weather events being effected by the cooling.

We live in a very benign age and your assertion Elsewhere that severe weather events are becoming more frequent are simply not supported by the observations we can trace back a thousand years.