The high diversity together with the lower input costs of organic agriculture is key to reducing production risks associated
with extreme weather events.
If they do not use the services of a professional grounds maintenance company they will be largely left to
deal with extreme weather events as best they can.
If applicable, ask what the town is like to drive around during the winter, or during other times of
year with extreme weather.
With extreme weather on the rise, climate change is increasingly becoming a human health issue to which policymakers need to pay attention if they aren't already.
This technical document contributes to frame the challenge of
dealing with extreme weather and climate events as an issue in decision - making under uncertainty, analyzing response in the context of risk management.
Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing
climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.
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.
With extreme weather comes power outages, either from winds and rain damaging power utilities, or from the power grid being strained while many people try to make their homes comfortable during extreme heat and cold temperatures.
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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.
James Cook University scientists have found lizards exposed to rain, hail and shine may cope
better with extreme weather events predicted as a result of climate change than their fair - weather cousins.
When you consider we are already putting record amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere now,
with extreme weather as a result, fires, floods, rising seas and all that — a 30 % INCREASE as the century goes forward must be absolutely disastrous.
However, if the university is located in a
region with extreme weather and oil dependency is critical, then investing in the oil sector would be wise as a way to diversify or hedge.
Humane Society Silicon Valley weighed in on the issue with a statement that said, «We know animals love to take car rides and spend time with their owners, but there are just some days,
particularly with extreme weather, when your pet should stay home.»
Combined with extreme weather events the inability to find sufficient cheap fuel to mitigate climate change (e.g., moving whole cities from coastal areas) will relegate whole populations to hunger and starvation.
This is a good topic for denialists, who refuse to associate «extreme weather» with fossil fueled - global warming, while happily associating
ENSO with extreme weather — they don't claim that pineapple express storms are «weather, not climate.»
Recently, Screen and Simmonds (38) showed that, during 1979 — 2012,
months with extreme weather (in terms of high anomalies of land surface temperature and land precipitation) in the NH midlatitudes were commonly accompanied by zonally elongated midlatitude trains of quasistationary midtropospheric planetary waves, predominantly with m = 5 − 7.
We believe that more accurate and reliable weather predictions will be of tremendous benefit to society, in everything from people being able to make better day - to - day plans to improved agricultural planning to being better able to predict and cope
with extreme weather disasters.
A 2014 study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) further explained that we're seeing «an exceptional number» of extreme North American weather in recent years because some Rossby waves are stalling out for extended periods of time: «the study shows that in
periods with extreme weather, some of these waves become virtually stalled and greatly amplified.»
(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In an ironic twist to Pakistan's
struggles with extreme weather, experts warn that the increasingly frequent and intense flooding in the country could lead to catastrophic water shortages.
«The money is urgently needed by real people coping every
day with extreme weather events, public health crises and food insecurity, leading to hunger, suffering and even death,» she continued.
First it was the glaciers, then the
link with extreme weather, now it's an apparently erroneous claim that «global warming could cut rain - fed north African crop production by up to 50 % by 2020».
Critics also noted that the study doesn't deal
with extreme weather like this week's downpours in Houston, California's four - year drought or Superstorm Sandy.
No, also notable was the fact that the president never even mentioned the word «climate» or «global warming» once, despite coming off the heels of a year
fraught with extreme weather events, that was tied for hottest ever recorded — and coming off of a decade that was indeed the hottest ever measured.
The plateau of global temperatures over the past two decades — «the pause» — is disproportionate to the increase in climate alarmism which coincides with the rise of mobile / video phones and CCTV,
with extreme weather content captured and uploaded to social media, and lovingly aired by CAGW - sympathetic mainstream media, leading to the mass climate hysteria we bear witness to daily.
Insurance companies view drivers who live (or even just drive) in highly populated areas, areas with high amounts of vehicle theft, or
areas with extreme weather events as more expensive to insure because there is a higher volume of claims being filed in those areas, and thus, a higher likelihood that you will need to file a claim.
After the spaceship crash, the astronaut is forced to deal
with the extreme weather conditions of the planet in order to survive, while he explores this seemingly uninhabited planet.
The issues that have dominated news cycles in recent weeks — North Korea,
along with extreme weather in the southern United States — should not obscure the robust underlying fundamentals of the US economy, in our view.
Since adapting to air conditioning life here I have a couple of tips to pass on to help you
deal with the extreme weather climate contrast between indoors and outdoors, while staying stylish, of course.
Experts at June 1 - 11 climate talks in Bonn were disappointed that G7 leaders gave only vague assurances they would work to mobilise $ 100 billion per year by 2020 to help poorer nations
cope with extreme weather and rising seas, and to develop their economies cleanly - as promised by rich governments in 2009.
Local growers and farmers say climate change is creating new challenges,
with extreme weather conditions, sudden storms, rising temperatures and drought making it even more difficult to cope with a perennially unpredictable Mother Nature.
«We have challenges that the environment is bringing
us with extreme weather, which is now undeniable.