Sentences with phrase «weather events occur»

As extreme weather events occur (such as) in the mid-west and Hurricane Sandy etc, other legislators will come around,» Kim 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.»

Are there some pundits who at some level are quite pleased when severe weather events occur so that they can be promoted as evidence for AGW?

The decadal scenarios are not time series, but rather frequencies of extreme events (including clusters) and worst case scenarios over the target time interval:» Extreme weather events occur repeatedly throughout history and are conveniently forgotten.

As our climate changes, extreme weather events occur more frequently and with more intensity.

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.

Erosion can happen at a much fast rate when extreme weather events occur.

If an extreme weather event occurs, researchers can look to see if the models predicted it.

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.

For instance, extreme weather events occurred with about the same frequency during the 1945 - 77 global cooling period as they do today, yet no climate scientist pointed to human activity as being responsible in the earlier period.

The all out climate engineering assault continues with major weather events occurring on the West coast and the East coast.

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.

Having recently eloped with the poet Percy Shelley to Geneva, Shelley found herself writing the book under the influence of the bizarre weather events occurring all around her.

The report is the first attempt to calculate the extent to which human activity has affected the chances of a specific weather event occurring.

Not exact matches

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

It seems that strange weather events — such as the recent record cold and ice in Atlanta that crippled the city's roadways — are occurring more frequently.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

It includes 22 separate studies focusing on 16 different extreme weather events that occurred last year.

Occurring about a week apart, the significant weather events caused heavy rainfall, major flooding, and sudden influxes of fresh, cold water into the waterways.

This particular example is the oldest known example of oxidative weathering from a terrestrial environment, occurring about 600 million years before the Great Oxidation Event that laid the foundations for the evolution of complex life.»

In recent years, extreme winter weather events such as heavy snowfalls and severe winters have been occurring frequently in regions such as East Asia, North America and Europe.

By careful measurements of the population of two species on one tiny island over the course of major weather changes such as El Niño events and droughts, the Grants were able to show that evolutionary changes in beak size and body size can occur in as little as a couple of years.

Otto and her colleagues count how often the weather event of interest occurs in a warmed world compared with 18th - century Earth.

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.

To see if areas farther away are associated with El Niño, scientists refer to historical weather patterns and to look at trends of where precipitation normally occurs during El Niño events.

He will focus on weather events that — at the time they occur — are more extreme than any other event in the historical record.

One research challenge involves having just a few decades or a century of high - quality weather data with which to make sense of events that might occur once every 1,000 or 10,000 years in a theoretical climate without human influence.

Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.

Another concern is the uptick in weather and related events occurring on a planet - wide basis, such as El Niño and La Niña.

His job, and that of any forensic meteorologist, is to reconstruct the weather conditions that occurred at a specific time and location in question by retrieving and analyzing archived atmospheric data and re-creating a time line of meteorological events.

Below - average sea - surface temperatures commonly occur following an El Niño and appear to be associated with weather events opposite that of El Niño.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

The model accounts for the dynamic feedbacks that occur naturally in the Earth's climate system — temperature projections determine the likelihood of extreme weather events, which in turn influence human behavior.

The reports also chronicle many significant weather and climate - related events that occurred during the month.

By contrast, weather forecasting that leverages «data science» collects a vast amount of historical information on air, temperature, and humidity, and assesses the relationship between those measurements and actual past events, such as whether or not a storm occurred.

A number of weather events that may occur in Texas can cause flooding, such as flash floods, heavy rains, tropical storms and hurricanes.

Should the need arise, families will now be able to bring their pets with them to certain shelter locations if a weather or man - made event occurs.»

But «far away devices may only be able to provide asynchronous or supplementary support to the events occurring on the console (e.g. providing for weather effects in games, artificial intelligence, etc.).»

Each work is composed of myriad individual elements that have been processed to mimic naturally occurring events such as weathering, rusting, tarnishing, or burning.

Having world record daily weather events, such as the above, occur in such rapid sequence would seem to imply that Hansen's type of analysis could be applied to daily events as well.

This lag time between a CO2 increase and the manifested related weather change I find very frightening in that we are experiencing weather related events to the level of CO2 that occurred a long time ago with much lower CO2 levels.

Usefully predicting an average of weather events yet to occur seems more difficult than predicting the next toss of a coin.

It is also valid to say this particular warming event is occurring in a world where the forcing has been increased by human activity and «all» weather is now occurring on this new forcing path which is warming biased.

So while scientists can not attribute Hurricane Katrina, drought, or other extreme weather events to climate change, they can say climate change increases the risk of these occurring.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be»

While it is true that any one particular storm or weather event can not be attributed to climate change alone, unusual rain such as this is precisely the type of «global weirding» that climate scientists have predicted would occur as the climate warmed.

These are the kinds of very complex space weather discussions that need to occur, and at the end of the day CO2 is DEPENDANT on these solar events as CO2 is ELECTRICAL from a conductivity standpoint in the oceans, connected to surface lows and outgassing and ocean surface ion counts.

These are all weather events that have a realistic chance of occurring, and do occur repeatedly over time.