Sentences with phrase «weather extremes become»

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No one can control the weather, which is likely to become more extreme, but it is critical to do more to understand vulnerabilities that exist at the wildland - urban interface.

To keep from becoming derailed by such external factors as higher egg and beef prices, extreme weather conditions across various parts of the country in the first quarter, and a changing labor landscape, among others, the industry continues to draw on its resilient nature as it keeps dutifully moving along.

«With extreme weather becoming the new normal, it is critical that we invest in hardening our infrastructure and protecting our communities from whatever Mother Nature throws our way,» Cuomo said in a statement.

«As extreme weather becomes the new normal, homes and businesses are faced with increasing risks — especially in flood - prone areas,» Governor Cuomo said.

And the governor says extreme weather occurrences are becoming more common.

«As catastrophic and extreme weather has become more routine, this facility is no longer viable in its current location,» Howard Glaser, Cuomo's state operations director, wrote in a memo to the Federal Emergency Management Agency late last week.

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.

EXTREME weather around the Indian Ocean will become the norm if nothing is done to stem global warming.

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.

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.

Not only is global weather becoming much more extreme, it is becoming even more extreme than anyone expected.

«So with the extreme differences in temperature due to climate change, we wanted to show how the weather is becoming a more relevant factor.

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.

Where it forms extreme undulations, weather systems become trapped in one place for prolonged periods, according to Francis.

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

Because the effect of cutting emissions on extreme weather will not become apparent until the end of the century, politicians tend to prevaricate over cuts.

Not only are these trends continuing, but the weather is also becoming even more extreme than was predicted.

«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.

But there is a downside: extreme weather caused by the Pacific's shifting waters might become more common.

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 just that.

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

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

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.

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.

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

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.

He's also the lead author of new science that shows how our weather has become more extreme due to greenhouse gas emissions.

From heat waves to downpours, a number of extreme weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

Though the same can not definitively be said of other kinds of extreme weather, such as hail storms and tornadoes, despite the fact that they are becoming more frequent.

Even greens become glued to extreme weather porn generated by an unstable atmosphere.

It seems that extreme weather including torrential rains and blazing heat is becoming the new norm, and now new research indicates that more than half of hot extremes are caused by climate change.

In extreme age, some cats become forgetful, staying outdoors in bad weather or wandering and becoming lost.

It is a challenging hike that becomes strenuous because of the very high altitude and / or the extreme 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.

the weather seems to be becoming more extreme, and i'm wondering if / when the weather pendulum will swing so far that this inevitable (mini) ice age i heard about will occur.

With even further warming more hydrates are released, additional global soil feedback (extreme soil respiration rates, compost bomb instability) and weathering becomes a driver, now Ocean very stratified, maybe things like permanent El Nino, weather systems probably move very slow — everything gets stuck due to lack of perturbed ocean, no or very little frozen water at the poles.

With the world on the verge of another food crisis (corn, wheat, and soybean prices are soaring again), extreme weather patterns becoming more pronounced, carbon emissions on the rise, loss of biodiversity accelerating, we desperately need some «win - win» strategies in our quest to make the world more sustainable.

The periods of extreme draught and floods plus other forms of «funny weather» are becoming more usual than not.