Sentences with phrase «weather related death»

Because a extreme weather related death, flood, drought, hurricane, tornado, etc spread of disease, etc, is a 1st order function of being poor...

Analyzing heat - related mortality based on the above information, one would conclude that moderate warming would likely result in fewer net deaths, and that the trend of technology adaptation plus warming will make the already small issue of weather related deaths even smaller.

Not exact matches

Since 1986, the first year the National Weather Service reported data on heat - related deaths, more people in the United States have died from heat (3,979) than from any other weather - related disaster — more than floods (2,599), tornadoes (2,116) or hurricanes (1,391).

Although tornadoes, floods and hurricanes tend to get more attention, U.S. heat fatalities top the list of weather - related deaths in the 30 years since heat - related data were first reported.

Scaling back the intensity of football practice due to hot weather was once laughable, but many states are enacting such rules to prevent heat - related deaths

Calculating an overall trend in climate - related deaths is difficult due to the irregularity of severe storms, Boersma says, though the link between extreme weather and chick death demonstrates that as extreme weather increases in coming years, chick death will increase in turn.

Pablo García Borboroglu, president of the Global Penguin Society and an ecologist for the National Research Council of Argentina, says although the recent weather - related deaths are a growing factor in chick death, they're still not the biggest concern.

Vulnerability to winter weather depends on many non-climate factors, including housing, age, and baseline health.185, 186 While deaths and injuries related to extreme cold events are projected to decline due to climate change, these reductions are not expected to compensate for the increase in heat - related deaths.187, 188,189

Health effects of these disruptions include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in the prevalence and geographical distribution of food - and waterborne illnesses and other infectious diseases, and threats to mental health.

Most of these deaths are attributed to avalanche, injury, weather exposure, or health problems related to extreme conditions on the mountain.

«There are also far more fire - related deaths in cold weather, resulting from faulty or overtaxed wiring, improper use of indoor heaters and errant sparks from fireplaces.

In a 2014 CDC paper, J. Berko, et al, reported that of deaths in the US attributed to weather, 31 percent resulted from excessive heat and related effects while 63 percent resulted from excessive cold and related effects.

«Of course, the weather - related deaths this year pale in comparison to past years.

Meanwhile, it must not be forgotten that cold weather in winter causes many more deaths than heat in summer, even in most subtropical regions, and measures to control cold - related deaths need to continue.

Vulnerability to winter weather depends on many non-climate factors, including housing, age, and baseline health.185, 186 While deaths and injuries related to extreme cold events are projected to decline due to climate change, these reductions are not expected to compensate for the increase in heat - related deaths.187, 188,189

Floods are the second deadliest of all weather - related hazards in the United States, accounting for approximately 98 deaths per year, 57 most due to drowning.58 Flash floods (see Ch.

... Even with climate change, cold related deaths will continue to represent the biggest weather - related cause of mortality.

Health effects of these disruptions include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in the prevalence and geographical distribution of food - and waterborne illnesses and other infectious diseases, and threats to mental health.

Meanwhile, increasingly severe climate change - related events ranging from mass coral bleaching, to glacial and sea ice melt, to tree death, to ocean health decline, to the expanding ranges of tropical infectious diseases, to worsening extreme weather events have occurred the world over.

Perhaps because they are taken for granted, lightning strikes are the second leading cause of weather - related deaths in the United States (after floods)[2].

Perhaps because they are frequent and taken for granted, lightning strikes are the second leading cause of weather - related deaths in the United States (after floods).

He has demonstrated, for example, that, largely because of mankind's utilization of fossil fuels, global deaths and death rates related to extreme weather have declined by a remarkable 93 % and 98 %, respectively, since the 1920s.

And they add a warning: «Extreme heat is responsible for more deaths in the United States than any other weather - related event, and its frequency and intensity is expected to increase over this century.»

Anyone credulous enough to believe that probably also believes global warming is a planetary emergency even though annual deaths and death rates related to extreme weather have declined by 93 % and 98 %, respectively, since the 1920s.

Indur Goklany, a US - based expert on weather - related catastrophes, charted global deaths through the 20th century from «extreme» weather events.

Compared with the peak rate of deaths from weather - related events in the 1920s of nearly 500,000 a year, the death toll during the period 2000 - 06 averaged 19,900.

Their report suggests that a central plank in the global warming argument — that it will result in a big increase in deaths from weather - related disasters — is undermined by the facts.

Average annual deaths from weather - related events in the period 1990 - 2006 — considered by scientists to be when global warming has been most intense — were down by 87 % on the 1900 - 89 average.

By trapping the earth's heat in the atmosphere, greenhouse gases lead to warmer temperatures and all the hallmarks of climate change: rising sea levels, more extreme weather, heat - related deaths, and increasing transmission of infectious diseases like Lyme.

Examples of potential climate related illnesses include asthma and other respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal diseases, heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and deaths related to extreme weather, such as hurricanes, tornadoes and floods.

«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between daily maximum, minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the daily maximum and minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between daily maximum [and] minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), in the CDC reported: Based on death certificate data from 2006 - 10, the report's authors found that «about 2,000 U.S. residents died each year from weather - related causes of death.»

Environmental advocates claim heat results in more deaths than any other weather - related event but I recently read a conflicting claim about weather - related deaths.

The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance released a new report, NYC Climate Justice Agenda 2018 — Midway to 2030: Building Resiliency and Equity for a Just Transition, that claims «Extreme heat results in more deaths than any other weather - related event».

In conclusion, there is a data base that does show that extreme heat results in more deaths than any other weather - related event.

Periods of extreme heat are directly related to higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease and heat stroke, particularly among the elderly and low - income communities who tend to be disproportionately affected by the impacts of all types of extreme weather.

Population growth coupled to the fact that extreme heat is the leading weather - related cause of death in the US calls for the need to identify the relative roles of natural variability and human - caused climate change on these extremes.

The U.S. experienced 15 weather - related disasters last year, including drought, wildfire, flooding, severe storms and a hurricane, which together resulted in losses of $ 46 billion and the deaths of 138 people, NOAA said.

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System names extreme heat events as one of the leading weather - related causes of death in the United States.

Wet pavement and rain cause more deaths than any other kinds of situations resulting from weather - related accidents.