Sentences with phrase «weather events of some kind»

These numbers did rise among those who had recently experienced severe weather events of some kind, but «this effect is small and transient,» the researchers report.
Get the media to keep repeating that we have more droughts, more rainfall, more extreme weather events of all kinds, and eventually it will stick.

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Infectious diseases also spread more easily after these kinds of weather events, and general infrastructure damage (such as to the water supply) carry unpredictable public health consequences.
Hurricane Irma, for its part, spotlighted another kind of housing risk — the low - quality homes and trailers where many poor Floridians live, which offer little protection from extreme weather events.
There is a collateral vulnerability, but more into climate change affecting weather and, therefore, exposure of insurance companies to more events and those kinds of things.
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.
This is a kind of space weather event where the magnetic fields surrounding Earth compress and release.
The weather event produced 122 tornadoes, resulted in 313 deaths across the southeastern United States, and is considered the most severe event of its kind since 1950.
That's one area of research that we are working on currently which has a really big impact on extreme weather events and it's this kind of phenomena that we need to understand much better.
It was a pretty mild day though (that's why I am dressed pretty light in case your were wondering) and the weather kind of spoiled our excitement for the event.
One of the things I love about spring is how pleasant and comfortable the weather is for all kinds of outdoor activities, and the abundance of outdoor festivals, concerts, sporting events and gatherings that start popping up once the weather starts warming up!
As with any event of this kind, the weather can make or break it.
Distinguishing between different kinds of extreme weather events is important because the risks of different kinds of events are affected by climate change in different ways.
This is exactly what Climate Change looks like as it's IMPACTS are happening in the real world (versus in the scientific theory papers)-- all kind sof unexpected unplanned for extreme events and a built infrastructure and building not up to the extreme demands of topdays extreme weather events across an entire Continent.
It's been nice in recent days to see some strong advocates for curbs in emissions of greenhouse gases shift from the more overheated, and unsupported, rhetoric they used earlier this year in attempting a kind of «kitchen sink» argument aiming to tie virtually every recent harmful weather event to warming, even those — like powerful tornadoes — for which there is no link and certainly no trend.
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.
It's not clear when the «dome of heat» will subside, but this could be a preview of the kind of extreme weather events that climate change could bring us with increasing frequency.
First, Southern California is experiencing the «driest year in 130 years of recordkeeping,» precisely the kind of extreme weather event we expect from climate change.
Munich Re's natural catastrophe database, the most comprehensive of its kind in the world, shows a marked increase in the number of weather - related events.
And some kinds of extreme weather events of a particular time increase, whereas others, like tropical storms, diminish... [91]
Post-Superstorm Sandy, we've entered a kind of fugue state when it comes to natural disaster, forgetting that there has been a long history of extreme weather events that sometimes have nothing to do with how much carbon is in our atmosphere.
The kind of (model supported) scenario construction that is deserving a lot of attention nowadays is the generation of synthetic weather events using a climate model, but cast in a future setting by adjusting the boundary conditions driving the climate system (greenhouse gas, aerosol, land use,...).
We'll need to see the bigger picture of weather extremes, precisely the kind of events that can lead to catastrophic droughts and disastrous floods.
The kinds of extreme weather events that would be expected to occur more often in a warming world are indeed increasing.
There's not really some kind of event that we would regard as a climate event, rather than a weather event.
While it can not be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.
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.
Extreme heat events, such as this heat wave, are the kind of weather events that increase the most as the climate warms.
So I believe John was correct that a new kind of weather event would be a good example of a black swan — a kind of swan not seen before.
And these severe weather events are exactly the kind of thing we'd expect to see as rising concentrations of greenhouse gases change our climate — which means that the current food price surge may be just the beginning.
While the fake skeptics will keep exploiting local short - term events, the confused recipients of this information can't help but notice the increase and clustering of extreme weather of all kinds in their own and their family's lifetimes.
«This is significant because it is the first time scientists have demonstrated the human fingerprint on a particular weather event with the kind of certainty that would stand up in court,» said Annie Petsonk, Environmental Defense's international counsel.
Focusing on decimal degree C. changes in global temperature is the tantamount to focusing attention away from the coming climate changes that will cause floods, droughts, dust storms, high winds and other extreme weather events and the difficulty of predicting where, when, and which kinds of weather related problems people in the near future will be experiencing.
He appears to conclude that some — if not all — weather events are somehow affected by human activity, but then offers no clear explanation as to how he arrives at this kind of conclusion.
Are Florida homeowners doomed to pay exorbitant fees to protect themselves against catastrophic weather events and other kinds of damage?
This makes them less likely to sustain the kinds of major damage that traditional mobile homes suffer from after severe weather events.
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