Sentences with phrase «weather went to extremes»

Not exact matches

• 250 million people will be forced to leave their homes due to extreme weather disasters • 30 million people will go hungry as agriculture suffers • 1 - 3 billion people will suffer acute water shortages

Since my extreme Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis one year ago, lettuce wraps are one of my go - to low carb hot weather favorites, whether cooking at home or dining out (I usually find them in the appetizer or salad section of restaurant menus).

All babies should be kept indoors in extreme weather conditions with the exception of going to and from the car.

Weather will likely be the biggest concern, but as long as weather isn't too extreme and / or you're able to keep baby warm, there's no reason why you can't go camping with a baby.

Unless... Suppose David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced that they agreed with Ed Miliband's warning over the weekend that Britain is «sleepwalking to a crisis», and that «climate change threatens national security» — and went on to commit themselves to working together on a long - term plan to protect the nation not just from extreme weather conditions but the other consequences of climate change.

«I think in agriculture you're going to find that farmers are more and more aware of extremes in their weather.

So Campbell - Staton and his team went back in the spring to see how the extreme weather had affected the lizards.

But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events.

It's going to make it easier for meteorologists to predict extreme weather events up to 7 days out.

A growing number of entertainment companies are investing in advanced weather strategies that go beyond keeping their audience safe during extreme conditions, they leverage day to day weather fluctuations to create a remarkable customer experience.

Designed to help you withstand extreme weather, Canada Goose jackets go back to the 1950s.

Down is totally the way to go with extreme cold weather.

In my opinion, the coat is exactly the medium - heavy weight expected of this kind of design and offers the appropriate warmth — it's never going to be as warm as an insulated cold weather jacket made for outdoor sports or harsh weather extremes, but no stylish coat ever will.

As far as weather tolerance goes, these dogs are very sensitive to extreme temperatures.

When we're experiencing drastic weather extremes, I allow my dogs out in the fenced - in yard to go potty and then wrestling with each other several times a day indoors is about the extent of the exercise.

Wasley advises that retailers initially stock a variety of products, testing to see what sells in their particular area and during what time of year, since weather extremes could influence sales — extreme hot or cold temperatures may affect the both the pet's and the owner's ability and willingness to go outdoors, she explains.

Planning which footwear to pack for a winter getaway can be a challenge, especially when your go - to travel shoes don't protect against weather extremes like rain, sleet, or snow.

«All I would say, not only to the South African government, but to governments around the world, is that extreme weather is going to be with us.

«We know now that we need to prepare for and adjust to more extreme weather and this will inform all our planning going forward,» she said.

As long as we're talking about extreme weather events and attribution... although Kerry Emanuel is usually the go - to guy for the study of increasing tropical cyclone intensity, his 2005 and 2011 (linked to above by Stefan) papers being the most cited, there is a limitation of scope in that only the North Atlantic basin is covered by these papers, AFAIK.

Once the ice reaches the equator, the equilibrium climate is significantly colder than what would initiate melting at the equator, but if CO2 from geologic emissions build up (they would, but very slowly — geochemical processes provide a negative feedback by changing atmospheric CO2 in response to climate changes, but this is generally very slow, and thus can not prevent faster changes from faster external forcings) enough, it can initiate melting — what happens then is a runaway in the opposite direction (until the ice is completely gone — the extreme warmth and CO2 amount at that point, combined with left - over glacial debris available for chemical weathering, will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, possibly allowing some ice to return).

But, when is this backing off on relating the probability of extreme weather events to climate change going to stop?

Here are three that I'm sending to a batch of my favorite extreme - weather watchers (including Marshall Shepherd of the University of Georgia, Cliff Mass at the University of Washington, Ryan Maue at WeatherBell, Andrew Freedman at Mashable, Dave Robinson at Rutgers, Jason Samenow of Capital Weather Gang, Eric Holthaus at Slate and my local go - to guide, Alex Marra of Hudson Valley Weather) *:

So given that we know that our current emissions path will lead to more, and has likely already caused a fair amount of, destructive extreme weather, and given the fact that Haiyan clearly demonstrates that adaptation is not going to be enough, we need to actively work towards changing direction and reducing drastically, then altogether eliminating, our GHG emissions.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

«These very strange extreme weather events are going to continue in their frequency and their severity... It's not that climate change is going to be here in the future, we are experiencing climate change.»

We knew global warming was going to make the weather more extreme.

While global warming can magnify the impacts of extreme weather events, a wide variety of non-environmental factors determine whether people choose to move and where they choose to go following a disaster.

We must begin to «adapt» or build «resilience» to climate and weather extremes, the proposition goes, in order to minimize the damage wrought by future warming.

Do you recall that just a few months ago they said that it was going to be extreme weather events would be caused by global warming.

Scientists have already linked global warming to an increase in extreme weather events, meaning systems like this hurricane season's superstorms — Harvey, Maria, and Irma — are going to get more severe and more frequent.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

And that is going to mean more extreme weather disturbances.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

But utilities continue to get beat up by extreme weather, and this latest climate report shows the problem is only going to get worse.

Every day an extreme record is broken in many places and in part that is a consequence of the short history of weather recording and the sheer number of locations where humans are now available to observe weather events that would have gone unnoticed a few decades ago.

From the California drought to the Vanuatu typhoon, weather extremes are increasingly hard to ignore, and global warming is going to worsen our situation.

These super-typhoons, as we've seen this November, can go on to become extra-tropical cyclones which in turn can have extreme effects on planetary scale Rossby wave activity and global weather patterns.

You seem to forget that we in the UK have written records of extreme weather events going back over 1000 years.

• Increased instance of extreme weather events (take your pick but their going to happen with or without an increase of CO2).

And one of those trends is increased extreme weather, including winters too warm to ski and winters too cold to go outside.

And we're most certainly going to see more extreme weather like this down the line.

Maybe those expousing such beliefs need to go back to high school as they seem to have missed something in 9th grade history, or at least that is when I learned of such «extreme weather events.»

Now we are going to push the climate well outside that range — not just of temperatures, but precipitation, extreme weather, drought and so on.

The researchers say that with more solar energy going into the Arctic Ocean because of lost ice, there is reason to expect more extreme weather events, such as heavy snowfall, heat waves, and flooding in North America and Europe but these will vary in location, intensity, and timescales.

It is not going to prevent the extreme weather we have observed in the past and, in my opinion at least, we are not nearly as resilient to historical weather as we need to be.

Remember global warming is going to increase the probability of extreme weather and make it more severe.

So this is your bad climate news for the day — to go along with shrinking Arctic ice, extreme weather, killer droughts, more wildfires, and monsoons increasingly inundating low - lying areas.

This is the wave of the future that we are going to see more and more extreme weather impacting us.

The interest in addressing climate change has historically been cyclical, most recently going back to former U.S. vice president Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, but environmental lawyers believe interest is gearing back up, in some part due to increasingly extreme weather events as we saw this past summer, causing more momentum at the regulatory level.