Sentences with phrase «while a heat wave»

The climate, of course, continues to vary around the increased averages, and extremes have changed consistently with these averages — frost days and cold days and nights have become less common, while heat waves and warm days and nights have become more common.

While heat waves are a regular part of summer weather, the steady warming of the planet means those heat waves are getting ever hotter, making record heat more and more likely

While heat waves and extreme weather events are routinely pointed to as indicators of global warming trends, the coldest weather in over a century is simply brushed off as «natural variability.»

Not exact matches

While trying to decide what kind of recipe to share today, that incorporated lots of fabulous cherries, I decided that with all these heat waves across the country, this is really the perfect excuse to create a new ice cream flavor!

Higher - energy light waves, including most of the visible light spectrum, are wasted as heat, while lower - energy waves simply pass through the solar panel.

«If you can make heat behave as a wave and have interference while controlling how far it moves, you could basically control all the properties behind heat transport,» said Martin Maldovan, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the paper's author.

While the new study looks at long - term trends, some scientists have also begun to evaluate the influence of climate change on individual heat wave events — and they're making some worrying discoveries, as well.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

While the marine heat wave particularly damaged staghorn corals (Acropora millepora), this species may ultimately prove to be one of the resilient ones, Mikhail Matz, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues report in PLOS Genetics.

While most scientists don't dispute the link between global warming and extreme weather, the once skeptical public is now starting to come around — especially following 2011, when floods, droughts, heat waves and tornadoes took a heavy toll on the U.S..

The Kanzius RF Machine transmits focused radio waves to these nanoparticles, which respond by releasing heat and incinerating infected cells while leaving the surrounding healthy cells intact.

And while ozone in the eastern U.S. has decreased overall, the levels can spike during heat waves.

While the shock waves from CMEs pour energy into Earth's upper atmosphere, puffing it up and heating it, they also cause the formation of the trace chemical nitric oxide, which then rapidly cools and shrinks it, she said.

Re # 5 response: [While the movie was indeed prophetic in recognizing anthropogenic global warming as a real potential future threat in the early 70s (responsible for the perpetual heat wave that afflicts Earth's inhabitants), it appears that overpopulation was envisioned as the primary aggravating factor.]

While the movie was indeed prophetic in recognizing anthropogenic global warming as a real potential future threat in the early 70s (responsible for the perpetual heat wave that afflicts Earth's inhabitants), it appears that overpopulation was envisioned as the primary aggravating factor.

While ENSO and other sources of natural variability can determine the location of extremes, 1 the intensity and duration of the associated extremes such as droughts, and the associated heat waves, have increased with climate change.

And while that high ranking was fueled in part by a major heat wave out West, a big factor was the very warm nighttime temperatures across a large swath of the country.

While this recent heat wave occurred earlier than usual and was widespread, it wasn't nearly as bad as the one that blanketed Europe for weeks in 2003, an event also found to be more likely to happen in a warming world.

While natural variability continues to play a key role in extreme weather, climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making heat waves more frequent and more intense.

It's the tie that binds and while the global average temperature is the defining metric, the increasing incidence of heat waves and longer lasting extreme heat is how the world will experience it.

The greatest cause of this heat wave is the shrinkage of winter around the North Pole, which took decades before happening this way, one side of the world is bound to be hotter while the other normal, its been going this way for more than a decade, and its getting hotter during winters; no ice in High Arctic Mid-November (1998), bees in N.Y. January, tulips in the UK February, summer heat in North American March, the spinning of the heat zone during winter will continue and expand.

And while we've all been reveling in the week's heat wave, it's not going to last; next week we're back down to 12.

We've been enjoying July while doing our best to survive Texas» current heat wave... which feels akin to opening a hot oven or, you know, skipping across the surface of the sun.

we're in the middle of a heat wave in the winter, and while i know i should concerned because global warming is real, it's hard not to enjoy such pleasant weather after so many cold, rainy days this season!

Spring has always been my favorite season (whether in NY or LA) because it starts warming up so I can wear all of my favorite dresses, skirts + sandals while also not sweating in a heat wave like I do over the summer haha!

While we're not sure how she managed to comfortably sport a beanie and a leather jacket during this legitimate heat wave, we do love how cool and laid - back she looks (as per usual).

We've been experiencing the heat wave for a while now but I am always happy to officially welcome summer.

I wore this outfit less than two weeks ago and was honestly too warm while I was taking these photos — it was in the 70s (major heat wave for us)!

While the rest of the country is in the middle of a heat wave, San Francisco seems to have missed the memo and has been a delightfully predictable 65 degrees.

I went hoping for the best and while not the worst (they could have had the gorgeous Ms. Berry running around in her underwear, dripping with sweat, at a 911 call center because there's a heat wave and the air conditioning goes out and her clothes have all shrunk in the drier) this is pretty darn close.

The austerity packages came in waves while basic needs such as food, housing, health care and heating became luxurious necessities for middle and low income citizens who saw their households» incomes steadily shrink.

Far Western Victoria is open to the elements; cold water, strong winds and big swell are common in the winter while the summer provides heat waves and flat spells.

While the rest of the country is experiencing an autumnal cool - off right now, SF is experiencing its typical October heat wave, so that new black sweater or suit won't work when it's 85 in the city during the day.

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

The take - home message from climate scientists and meteorologists, not surprisingly, is that heat waves — and new record highs — are ever more likely while unusually cold stretches — and new cold records — are ever less likely.

While the basics of global warming science are now firmly established, climatologists immersed in «attribution» research, investigating the mix of factors shaping a particular heat wave, deluge or drought, are still arguing long and hard about whether there is a discernible contribution from human - driven warming.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

While a single heat wave doesn't make a worldwide meltdown..., a great many scientists believe that by continuing to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, humans are forcing drastic climate changes.

Heat stress is projected to increase as a result of both increased summer temperatures and humidity.55, 61 One study projected an increase of between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year from heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (Heat stress is projected to increase as a result of both increased summer temperatures and humidity.55, 61 One study projected an increase of between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year from heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (A2).

To put it another way, the global warming contribution to the magnitude of the heat wave was 29 % (1.75 °C / 6 °C = 0.29) while the natural variability contribution to the magnitude of the heat wave was 71 % (4.25 °C / 6 °C = 0.71).

While heatwaves are an annual occurrence in India, global warming has meant recent heat waves are hotter and as a result more deadly.

As to the absorption of long - wave radiation from the earth's surface, while it may be true that carbon dioxide and water together do absorb certain frequency ranges of that radiation, I don't think that that matters a whole lot because most of the heat from the surface is transported to the top of the troposphere by conduction, convection and latent heat of vaporization of water during the day.

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.

Over the last 50 years, the number of cold days and record low temperatures in various locations has declined, while the number of hot days and heat waves has risen most places worldwide.

Those two companies manufactured fossil fuels that have contributed to global warming and thereby increased the number and severity of wildfires, droughts, and flash flooding, while also worsening air quality, harming forest health, and increasing mortality from heat waves.

Hence epic blizzards as well as murderous heat waves, unprecedented droughts, alongside disastrous floods, coral reefs, bleached white and lifeless while ice caps recede and glaciers melt.»

While the 2003 heat wave was unusual in today's climate, 23 Europe is highly likely to face even hotter summers more often in coming decades.24 Scientists estimate that human activities have already at least doubled the risk of an extreme heat wave.25

In 2003, he claimed the floods in the UK in the year 2000 could be scientifically attributed to «global warming», saying also, «while scientists had been more easily able to link climate change to the European heat wave of 2003 — an event which resulted in 40,000 deaths, drought, fires and crop failure — establishing the link to floods had been a longer process.

Visible light is not a radio wave, for example, it has distinct properties in its own right and these properties act in distinct ways on meeting matter, to reduce this to some as yet unproven idea of photons and claim that all photons in transferring energy heat matter oblivious to other uses of energy while claiming to be discussing science of the physical world around us we can see and taste and hear and which we do understand empirically well how it impinges on us and we on it, is frankly pathetic coming from those claiming themselves educated in this.

Politicians fiddle while climate related extreme weather events — floods, droughts, wildfires, tornadoes, heat waves — increase in the US and around the world.