By focusing on the deviation in the average temperature, the IAMs fail to capture changes in extremes, plausibly the most important current impact of climate change. Nordhaus acknowledges that DICE, and other IAMs, generally omit the impacts of extreme weather (as well as biodiversity, ocean ...
'We can characterise an extreme event as one occurring less than ten per cent of the time when looking in the historical archives. We can say with confidence that extremes are becoming more frequent in many parts of the world.' The consensus among forecasters is equally emphatic. In 2006,...
Native American communities along the Gulf of Mexico, separated in significant ways from contemporary tools and technology, experience and cope with weather extremes in unique and largely unknown ways. From one generation to the next there has been little communication between science, where advanced ...
Because the climate is chang-ing, even fundamental elements like airports and key eco-nomic sectors like air transportation may need to be 5 .As scientists focused on the impacts of climate change and extreme weather on human society and natural ecosys-tems around the world, our research has ...
The extremes of floods and fires are not going away, but adaptation can lessen their impact. Some adaptation is fairly easily set in place. Systems for warning Germans of coming floods will surely now improve. But other problems require much larger public ...
Extremes often beget extremes, and it took an extreme storm to break the unprecedented pattern of sweltering heat. Hurricane Hilary forged an unusual track as it ran up Mexico’s Baja Peninsula in the middle of August. Water temperatures are so cold off...
And if we ___ to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly in the next few decades, the frequency and intensity of these extremes is projected to increase dramatically.The ___ on aviation may be widespread. Many airports are built near sea level, putting them at risk of more frequent __...
"It's unfortunate when governments start to think about just removing that [tree cover] to build more houses. I know we have a housing crisis, but that may not be the solution." Factoring in tree types in green spaces that can survive weather extremes ...
Every day, people, governments and other organizations around the world rely on accurate weather forecasts to make many key decisions—whether to carry an umbrella, when to flee an approaching tropical cyclone, how to plan the use of renewable energy in a power grid, or how to prepare for a...
“In other words, we’re losing the regularity of the rains.” But attributing a single event like the rainfall this month to climate change remains difficult, in part due to Spain’s natural weather extremes, Argüeso said. “The fact that the variability is so large is an obstacle i...