Sentences with phrase «weather events such»

Other problems are likely to include an increase in extreme weather events such as droughts and floods, and an increase in salt - water intrusion into fresh water supplies.

In addition, severe weather events such as tornados can also lead to damages to both the structure of your rental home and your personal property — including rugs, appliances, and light fixtures — that you include within the home.

You can count on items such as fire, leaky pipes, theft, vandalism, and weather events such as a tree limb coming through a window and piercing your television.

Unfortunately, severe weather events such as tornados and storms can pose some challenges.

Because this is not a state that is prone to other weather events such as tornadoes, you really don't have to worry about that.

Fortunately, residents of Madison do not face a significant risk from extremely damaging weather events such as tornadoes, wildfires or earthquakes.

Inclement weather events such as tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms can cause serious damage to these manufactured homes built with lighter materials because strong winds can cause their anchoring mechanisms to loosen or break.

Arkansas experiences severe weather events such as tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes more often than most states.

Many impacts of climate change will be realised as the result of a change in the frequency of occurrence of extreme weather events such as windstorms, tornados, hail, heatwaves, gales, heavy precipitation or extreme temperatures over a few hours to several days.

Extreme weather events such as those which have recently devastated parts of Australia — heatwaves, floods and fires - are predicted to become more frequent and severe.

By that I mean long term changes in climate that can be attributed to warming, as opposed to weather events such as Hurricane Katrina or the (formerly) warm eastern North American winter.

But what too few people are asking is what happens during major adverse weather events such as the Northeast experienced this past winter.

I'm hoping that this blog may illuminate the scientific foundations of the claim that global warming will increase the incidence of extreme weather events such as the Pakistani floods or the Russian heat wave.

The report explores attitudes toward policies that relate to climate change due to extreme weather events such as extended periods of high heat, flooding, and storms resulting in the transmission of disease and decreased air quality.

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

In a warming world extreme weather events such as flooding are set to become more common, making these floods an important test of Europe's capability to cope.

In our view, this type of deals only serves as a band - aid on a very serious issue because they can not prevent Haiti from being hit by climate change influenced weather events such as extreme floods or severe hurricanes.

Changing climatic variables relevant to the function and distribution of plants include increasing CO2 concentrations, increasing global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and changes in the pattern of «extreme» weather events such as cyclones, fires or storms.

The analysis of twenty - two disaster loss studies shows that economic losses from various weather related natural hazards, such as storms, tropical cyclones, floods, and small - scale weather events such as wildfires and hailstorms, have increased around the globe.

Individual seasonal weather events such as a «snowmageddon» or heat waves can not be directly attributed to either argument of the climate change debate because such events alone are temporary affects.

If you believe that government should intervene in markets to incentivize rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, you can justify your preference with data, theories, and models that predict increases in extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts, and floods.

In the report, 10 case studies outline current effects of climate change, from infectious diseases such as malaria and West Nile virus to extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods.

Most land - use scenario assessments are based on gradual changes in socio - economic and climatic conditions, although responses to extreme weather events such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America have also been assessed (Kok and Winograd, 2002).

An increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, severe dust storms and hurricanes;

The toll will continue to rise as climate change leads to more frequent and intense tropical storms, flooding, and extreme weather events such as heat waves and droughts.

There is growing evidence that climate change is linked to severe weather events such as the typhoon in the Philippines — David Cameron, 16th November 2013

It can then be brought on line within 8 - 10 hours if needed to help meet demand from weather events such as heatwaves and geological events such as earthquakes that knock out capacity elsewhere.

Stronger and longer heat waves, more frequent extreme weather events such as flooding and tropical cyclones, rises in sea level, and increased air pollution will become more the rule than the exception.

[2] Expected impacts include a sea level rise up to 6 - 7m, melting permafrost in the arctic regions, large - scale agricultural losses, increased water scarcity, a collapse of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean and an increase of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts or devastating storms.

The report, which was supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, stresses that extreme weather events such as floods or droughts are just as significant as rising average temperatures and rainfall.

Extreme weather events such as typhoons and hurricanes are becoming more common in some regions of the world, while others regions experience more punishing droughts and heat waves.

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

As a result of climate change, global temperatures are expected to continue to rise, resulting in sea level rise and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, landslides and storms.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

Global temperature averages are creeping upward, seas are warming, rising and becoming more acidic, and extreme weather events such as droughts, wildfires, floods and powerful storms are more commonplace.

The report says rising sea levels and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as typhoons and floods — all the result of global warming — are claiming lives, destroying or damaging homes and infrastructure, reducing crop yields, and ruining employment prospects.

In increasing order of suddenness, there are what you might call «steady - state» impacts such as rising sea levels; increased separation of weather into more concentrated wet periods and dry periods; and a greater occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

Shonibare faces the subject with characteristic playfulness as he reveals the irony of the situation: throughout mythology, it is the Gods who used weather events such as storms, earthquakes and droughts to punish humans.

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.

In 2014, Climate Central helped create the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a groundbreaking international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and droughts.

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

ESA is looking to develop a spacecraft that could for the first time provide us with a «side - view» of the Sun, improving our ability to predict potentially damaging space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

Scientists are reluctant to directly link climate change with extreme weather events such as storms and drought, saying these fluctuate according to atmospheric conditions, but green groups link the two in their calls for action.

A NASA satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large weather events such as El Niño, with some troubling implications for future 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.

Extreme weather events such as excessive precipitation and heat waves are on the rise, the report finds.

Dry places are likely to get drier; rainfall is likely to arrive in fewer but more concentrated episodes; and extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones are likely to increase in intensity.

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.

People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to the effects of climate change, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher.

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.