• More can be done to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate change, as well as prepare for and respond to weather-related disasters, according to a new World Bank report released today on the sidelines of the UN climate talks in Warsaw. (worldbank.org)
  • Produced before Typhoon Haiyan left its deadly trail of destruction across the Philippines, the report describes the costs of weather disasters the lives and jobs lost as well as in losses and damages to private property and infrastructure, and their particular impact on the poor. (worldbank.org)
  • According to the reinsurance company, Munich Re, data, total reported losses from disasters are estimated at $3.8 trillion in the period from 1980 to 2012 with 74% due to extreme-weather. (worldbank.org)
  • This year the US has been rocked by several billion dollar extreme weather disasters, from tornadoes to flooding to hurricanes to heatwaves. (mongabay.com)
  • As climate-fueled disasters increase in frequency and intensity - taking a heavy toll on human lives, infrastructure, and the power grid - communities are being forced to prioritize resilience. (rmi.org)
  • Resilience hubs offer local governments a powerful means of supporting vulnerable populations before, during, and after an extreme weather event or other disasters, while simultaneously empowering and shifting resources directly to those communities. (rmi.org)
  • These hubs can create a range of health, economic, and environmental benefits that can make them attractive to communities facing increasingly severe climate and other disasters. (rmi.org)
  • Major disasters fueled by weather and climate extremes bring about catastrophic damage to property and lives. (statista.com)
  • Total economic losses caused by weather disasters have hovered around 200 billion U.S. dollars per year in the past decade. (statista.com)
  • Weather-related disasters have skyrocketed over the past half-century, causing far more damage even as better warning systems have meant fewer deaths, the UN said Wednesday. (ticotimes.net)
  • On a positive note, the report found that even as the number of weather and climate-related disasters ballooned over the past half-century, the number of associated deaths declined nearly threefold. (ticotimes.net)
  • Virtually all climate-related disasters are caused by compounding climate processes. (ufz.de)
  • citation needed] Climate-related disasters and exposures including drought, extreme temperature, floods, landslides, storms, and precipitation have various mental health outcomes, but PTSD is consistently the most commonly reported among low and middle-income countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Instead, they are predicting climate averages. (skepticalscience.com)
  • The climate guide for Ibiza (Ibiza Town) shows long term monthly weather averages processed from data supplied by CRU (University of East Anglia) , the Met Office & the Netherlands Meteorological Institute . (weather2travel.com)
  • The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is partnering with Esri to provide global climate data and models for ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, particularly for the NCAR Community Earth System Model. (esri.com)
  • This program fosters interdisciplinary science and training for new and specialist users of GIS for atmospheric research, climate change adaption, public health, and safety. (esri.com)
  • Mapping and Modeling Weather and Climate with GIS , an edited volume from Esri Press, features conceptual and practical essays by leading climatologists, meteorologists, and other experts on how GIS and analysis contribute to the advancement of atmospheric science. (esri.com)
  • According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there were 80 U.S. weather-related events that cost more than $1 billion each between 2004 and 2013. (prnewswire.com)
  • Under a partnership, groups from NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense and research universities are using ESMF as the standard for coupling their weather and climate models to achieve a realistic representation of the Earth as a system of interacting parts, unifying much of the modeling community. (scienceblog.com)
  • The third experiment, combining a GFDL atmosphere-land-ice model with an MIT ocean-sea ice model (known as MITgcm), may ultimately bring new insights into ocean uptake of carbon dioxide and other important atmospheric gases and how this process affects the climate. (scienceblog.com)
  • As researchers in atmospheric and climate sciences, we define the situation as the 'new normal. (ynetnews.com)
  • The climate is changing,' wrote National Center for Atmospheric Research scientists Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo and University of Reading physicist Theodore Shepherd in their study, Attribution of Climate Extreme Events . (commondreams.org)
  • The key is understanding the difference between atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics when it comes to weather patterns. (commondreams.org)
  • The researchers therefore argue that for a given severe weather event, you should basically set aside whether climate change altered atmospheric dynamics in such a way as to make that particular event more likely. (commondreams.org)
  • NLDAS Phase 2 is a collaboration project among several groups: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Princeton University, the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Hydrological Development (OHD), the University of Washington, and the NCEP Climate Prediction Center (CPC). (cdc.gov)
  • Building Resilience: Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development looks at the gradual or slow-onset effects of climate change like sea-level rise, salinization of freshwater sources and droughts, as well as extreme weather events like floods, heat-waves or cyclones. (worldbank.org)
  • Without resilience planning, climate change threatens the pace of the energy transition, in addition to affecting overall energy security and the social benefits that clean energy affords. (rmi.org)
  • For example, in India, the need for climate resilience of the power sector is heightened because of factors such as rising heat and water stress as well as extreme weather events like cyclones and floods. (rmi.org)
  • As such, mainstreaming climate resilience in our energy transition and electricity infrastructure planning must take center stage in the coming decade. (rmi.org)
  • In the face of worsening extreme weather, cities are creating resilience hubs to provide communities with numerous health, economic, and environmental benefits. (rmi.org)
  • Focused on the reduction of disaster risk, climate resilience, and mental health and psychosocial support at city level, this project resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Indian National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), which began in 2017. (medscape.com)
  • Everything you need to know about the forecast, and making the most of the weather. (metoffice.gov.uk)
  • The inference is that climate predictions, decades into the future, cannot be possibly right when the weather forecast for the next day has some uncertainty. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Climate scientists use models to forecast the average water level in the pool, not the waves. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Alerts are issued by Environment Canada's Meteorological Service (MSC) for weather or environmental hazard events that are either occurring, imminent, or forecast to develop. (gc.ca)
  • PennEnvironment calls the report - which was spoon-fed to them by their DC parent organization - "Global Warming and Extreme Weather: The Science, the Forecast, and the Impacts on America. (commonwealthfoundation.org)
  • El Nino and La Nina are naturally-occurring weather events that can devastate the world's climate , ecosystems , and cultures. (independent.co.uk)
  • The extreme weather - an increasingly frequent occurrence in our warming climate - is having a major impact on human health, ecosystems, economies, agriculture, energy and water supplies," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. (globalissues.org)
  • Within the H2020 project, InnoForEst, I am collaborating with the Universeum Science Centre in Gothenburg to study how school children interact with forest ecosystems, and how they can learn more about climate change through multi-actor collaborations. (lu.se)
  • Climate maps give an indication of recent and long term rainfall, and hence the likelihood that there is sufficient soil moisture or dam water available for your needs. (bom.gov.au)
  • Weather forecasts provide the short term outlook needed to plan the week ahead, and seasonal information on rainfall enables a longer term plan to be laid out. (bom.gov.au)
  • Over large parts of Australia, we also know that seasonal rainfall can vary greatly from one year to the next due to climate drivers such as El Niño and La Niña . (bom.gov.au)
  • Scorching temperatures are engulfing large parts of the Northern hemisphere, while devastating floods triggered by relentless rainfall have disrupted lives and livelihoods, underscoring the urgent need for more climate action, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. (globalissues.org)
  • The bright sunlight, moderate weather and less rainfall all make it one of the most recommended seasons to visit Hanoi. (travelchinaguide.com)
  • Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, droughts, extreme rainfall and severe cyclones in many areas, and modifying the transmission of food-borne, water-borne and zoonotic infectious diseases, resulting in large impacts on health. (who.int)
  • All in all, it is likely that South Carolina, the neighbor of the state that is famous for making climate change illegal , and who's congressional delegation refused to help the victims of Super Storm Sandy, got walloped by climate change. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Given a particular weather pattern, how were the temperatures, precipitation, and associated impacts influenced by climate change? (commondreams.org)
  • A warming climate has been linked to an increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including heat and cold waves, extreme precipitation, and wildfires. (cdc.gov)
  • A report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) examined mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes between 1970 and 2019. (ticotimes.net)
  • The number of weather, climate and water extremes are increasing and will become more frequent and severe in many parts of the world as a result of climate change," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. (ticotimes.net)
  • On average, a disaster linked to weather, climate and water extremes has thus occurred every single day over the past 50 years, killing 115 people and causing $202 million in daily losses, the WMO report found. (ticotimes.net)
  • Next to climate extremes, many large impacts are caused by an unfortunate combination of - often unknown - regular climate and weather phenomena. (ufz.de)
  • Climate advocates and their detractors each seem to use the latest weather patterns as proof points about the state and fate of our global climate, homing in on warmer summers, on the part of those advocating for climate action, or colder winters, on the part of skeptics and deniers. (greenbiz.com)
  • Never mind that climate change is said to exacerbate both, making hots hotter, colds colder, dries drier and wets wetter. (greenbiz.com)
  • It remains a liquid at low temperatures and is persistent in colder climates. (cdc.gov)
  • Learn how to use new online lessons to explore future climate projections. (esri.com)
  • Learn how to use ArcGIS Pro to explore future climate projections. (esri.com)
  • These simulations are the first field tests of the new Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF), an innovative software system that promises to improve and accelerate U.S. predictive capability ranging from short-term weather forecasts to century-long climate change projections. (scienceblog.com)
  • The development of new tools to study compound events is crucial given the pressing need to provide reliable climate risk projections for human societies. (ufz.de)
  • The town is located near the Pacific coast and has a humid climate. (ticotimes.net)
  • This is because Darwin is in an area that transitions between the arid Australian interior and the more humid tropical climates to the north. (edu.au)
  • Weather-related economic impacts are especially high in fast-growing, middle-income countries due to increasingly exposed, valuable assets. (worldbank.org)
  • Climate change increasingly affects people's health and well-being, as do other global environmental changes such as loss of biodiversity. (who.int)
  • Today climate changes are occurring at an increasingly rapid rate. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a policy report to confront the increasingly strong and lasting impacts that climate change is having directly and indirectly on people's mental health and psychosocial well-being. (medscape.com)
  • In addition to the increasingly high incidence of mental disorders (eg, emotional distress, stress, depression, and suicidal behavior) affecting people worldwide, the WHO warned of new, emerging syndromes that are directly related to climate change, such as "ecotrauma. (medscape.com)
  • and other groups are increasingly conducting HIAs to inform decision-making processes for transportation, land use, climate change, and other sectors. (cdc.gov)
  • The "skeptic" claim " scientists can't even predict the weather right " is based more on an appeal to emotion than fact. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Although the report still has to be vetted by scientists before its release later this month in Uganda, researchers are already calling this the largest effort to date to tease out the links between extreme weather and a warming world. (mongabay.com)
  • Climate change consultant and blogger, Brian Thomas, says these patterns are pushing 'prominent scientists' to state 'more explicitly that the pattern we're seeing today shows a definite climate change link,' but that it may not yet change the public perception in the US. (mongabay.com)
  • And I feel like climate scientists, including myself, have been being ignored for decades by world leaders. (truthout.org)
  • The city has a subtropical highland climate, with temperatures ranging from the mid-60s to low-70s Fahrenheit (18-24 degrees Celsius) throughout the year. (ticotimes.net)
  • From October to November, the climate is perfect to appreciate the impressive scenery in this old capital city and the temperatures are similar to those in February to April and sometimes maybe a little cooler. (travelchinaguide.com)
  • We should assume that any given weather event 'would have occurred anyway,' Trenberth told the Post , 'and then ask the question how the change in the environment affected the outcome, in particular through higher temperatures, grater rainfalls, more rapid drying in the case of the drought--and these things are answerable. (commondreams.org)
  • Through partnerships and open data sharing with authoritative federal sources, Esri provides predictive analysis data on various weather-related risks, as well as live feeds of incidents. (esri.com)
  • The Academy hopes to enhance understanding among policymakers and the public at large of the increasing risks from extreme weather incidents," said Shawna Ackerman , vice president of the Academy's Casualty Practice Council. (prnewswire.com)
  • Climate risks with their long-term, uncertain, and evolving nature make anticipation and proactive response to a disruption challenging. (rmi.org)
  • The associated uncertainty of climate risks also makes accurate renewable forecasting difficult, posing challenges to grid integration of variable renewable energy sources. (rmi.org)
  • This includes leveraging the existing disaster management framework for the power sector and implementing newer, customized plans and frameworks that look beyond legacy climate risks. (rmi.org)
  • Current approaches have laid the foundations, but they have not proven sufficient for sustainably and efficiently reducing environmental risks to health and building health-supportive and enabling environments - hence the call for a new strategy on health, environment and climate change. (who.int)
  • This increase in extreme weather results in increased risks to the health and safety of farm workers. (cdc.gov)
  • As the latest El Nino event forms this summer, with the last occurring in 2016 leading to the hottest year on record, we take a dive into these unique weather patterns and what they mean for the future of our climate. (independent.co.uk)
  • In the last decades, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased considerably, causing a warming effect in the atmosphere, and therefore affecting the balance of climate conditions leading to significant changes in weather patterns. (statista.com)
  • In other words, forget everything you know about seasonal patterns: What the weather should be at any given point, what should be blooming when, what animals should be migrating where, etc. (greenbiz.com)
  • and I'll be sending it to a friend and neighbor who travels around the world giving conferences on fluid dynamics with respect to climate and also lecturing on the "indisputable increase in severe weather patterns due to man-made global warming" (though he admits it's not his field of expertise). (corbettreport.com)
  • Urban flooding is one problem that is expected to become more common with the intensification of the impacts of climate change. (ynetnews.com)
  • Plastic has become a common ingredient in our oceans, and the overwhelming pollution crisis it is causing around the world, is also posing an increasing threat to our already deteriorated climate. (theweathernetwork.com)
  • Outdoor workers are particularly likely to be exposed to extreme heat, air pollution, UV radiation, extreme weather, and biological hazards. (cdc.gov)
  • This has led to increased mental health issues in response to climate change, thus allowing for more research to be developed on the topic (Arcanjo, 2019). (wikipedia.org)
  • An earlier version of this document was noted by the Executive Board at its 144th session in January 2019.1 The draft WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change, which the Board broadly supported, was subject to further consultations by Member States in March 2019, and has been updated in the light of comments made. (who.int)
  • In decision EB142(5) (2018), the Executive Board at its 142nd session requested the Director-General inter alia to develop a draft comprehensive global strategy on health, environment and climate change, to be considered by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly in May 2019, through the Executive Board at its 144th session in January 2019. (who.int)
  • 2 In line with resolution WHA69.19 (2016) on the global strategy on human resources for health: workforce 2030, a health workforce impact assessment was carried out for the draft WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change (see https://www.who.int/hrh/documents/B144_HRH-links_160119-climate.pdf, accessed 26 March 2019). (who.int)
  • In August 2018, a team led by Sarah-Jeanne Royer a post-doctoral scholar at the Center of Microbial Oceanography of the University of Hawaii released a study documenting that the growing volume of plastic accumulating in the environment may be contributing to climate change. (theweathernetwork.com)
  • Gilles and batsvensson How can an event be a test of a climate prediction? (skepticalscience.com)
  • Using existing data assimilation technology from NCEP, the finite-volume Community Atmosphere Model, or fvCAM, was able to ingest conventional and satellite observations, a capability that could open the door to using the fvCAM for weather as well as climate prediction. (scienceblog.com)
  • So if the weather does something that the prediction didn't predict, it's not its fault. (cdc.gov)
  • But she warned that "the number of people exposed to disaster risk is increasing due to population growth in hazard-exposed areas and the growing intensity and frequency of weather events. (ticotimes.net)
  • WARSAW, Poland, November 18, 2013 - As the global climate continues to change, the costs and damages from more extreme weather related to a warming planet are growing. (worldbank.org)
  • With electrification being front and center of the global energy transition, the power sector has become central to climate action. (rmi.org)
  • Notably, the draft report finds that it is likely (above 66 percent) that global climate change has already worsened extreme weather worldwide. (mongabay.com)
  • Financial support towards energy transitions to fight global warming has increased with the recognition of environmental degradation and climate change. (statista.com)
  • global weirding and vaguely-defined "extreme" weather that you can use to talk some sense into them. (corbettreport.com)
  • To find out whether the benefits of urban greening on cooling and flood prevention hold true, we analysed global climate models and weather information from 175 cities around the world spanning 15 years of daily observations, from 2000 to 2015. (edu.au)
  • So PennEnvironment yesterday comes out with a new propaganda piece to capitalize on what they call last winter's " Snowmageddon ," which is designed to get the dupe-able public's minds off past failed-to-materialize catastrophes and descriptive changers such as global cooling, the population bomb, global warming , climate change, energy security , food security , and now " global weirding . (commonwealthfoundation.org)
  • In a year where record summer heat followed the winter of 'Snowmageddon,' Environment America released a new report Wednesday documenting how global warming could lead to extreme weather events becoming even more common in the future. (commonwealthfoundation.org)
  • The debate over climate change has long focused on determining attribution--whether rising greenhouse gases and global warming caused a particular storm, drought, flood, or blizzard. (commondreams.org)
  • PTSD surpasses depression and anxiety as the most common mental health outcome from extreme weather events.This phenomena has been studied on global, regional, and local scales. (wikipedia.org)
  • Extreme weather resulting from global warming is an emerging threat to farm worker health and safety. (cdc.gov)
  • In the report we just published, we provide comprehensive recommendations on how to transform mental health systems for all, such as trying to integrate climate change considerations into policies and programs for mental health or building on existing global commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Paris Agreement. (medscape.com)
  • Increasing occurrences of extreme weather events, such as the 2018 drought over northern Europe, are a concerning issue under global climate change. (lu.se)
  • It is affected by the weather conditions of the seas on either side and protected by the neighbouring land masses of Indonesia, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and China. (escapeartist.com)
  • Most of these terms aren't exactly new, but most are just entering popular usage as they are deployed to describe weather phenomena once considered rare or exotic. (greenbiz.com)
  • This page is produced with the support of Managing Climate Variability - a consortium of primary industry research and development corporations. (bom.gov.au)
  • In spite of the claim in this myth, short term weather forecasts are highly accurate and have improved dramatically over the last three decades. (skepticalscience.com)
  • DTN develops decision-support tools and forecasts for actionable insights in the weather sector, as well as in agriculture, financial analytics, and transportation. (esri.com)
  • These preliminary results validate ESMF performance in terms of scientific fidelity and support the importance of ECCO products for improving short-term climate forecasts. (scienceblog.com)
  • 07/28/2011) If last year was the first in which climate change impacts became apparent worldwide-unprecedented drought and fires in Russia, megaflood in Pakistan, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in South America, plus record highs all over the place-this may be the year in which the American public sees climate change as no longer distant and abstract, but happening at home. (mongabay.com)
  • Extreme weather events, such as floods, heat and drought, affect millions of people and cost billions annually. (globalissues.org)
  • The report also highlights the damage caused by recent extreme weather events in the United States, including the snowstorms that paralyzed the Mid-Atlantic region in February, the floods that claimed 30 lives in Tennessee in May, and the 2008 California drought and subsequent wildfires that burned through 1.2 million acres of land. (commonwealthfoundation.org)
  • Another theme that I address in my research, and want to explore further, is the increasing impact of climate mitigation policies and expansion of renewable energy (for example bioenergy), and how this increases demand for land. (lu.se)
  • I haven't said much about this partly because there is so much good coverage, but South Carolina's floods, still ongoing, are going to get on the list of worst weather events of 2015. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Since these floods are amounting to a one in 1,000 year event, they are actually on the list of worst weather events since Vladimir the Great died, Cnut the Great invaded Enlgand (unrelated event), Eric Haakonsson outlaws berzerkers in Norway, and Olaf Haraldson declared himself King of Norway. (scienceblogs.com)
  • As the climate changes, cities around the world are enduring both heatwaves and floods more frequently. (edu.au)
  • My research is, in a broad sense, is addressing how climate change directly and through mitigation policies is influencing rural land use dynamics and related livelihoods. (lu.se)
  • What's new is the kind of weather we're experiencing, along with the growing list of weather terms being used by meteorologists to describe it. (greenbiz.com)
  • Unexpected weather conditions since February have taken meteorologists by surprise and caused much concern in the farm sector. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Reports came to our attention last month that the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had been withholding a report about the local impact of climate change since November, 2011. (scienceblogs.com)
  • If we change the ocean's ability to absorb CO₂ we will see an increased buildup of CO₂ in our atmosphere and other harmful gases that had been previously absorbed by phytoplankton and thus, contribute to climate change. (theweathernetwork.com)
  • One line of work explores how different factors contribute to climate vulnerability in small scale farming systems. (lu.se)
  • The effort follows the Academy's release of an Essential Elements paper on Climate Change earlier this year and its ongoing work with a group of North American actuarial organizations on a project to index the frequency and severity of such events. (prnewswire.com)
  • With the increasing frequency and severity of these events due to climate change, it is important to understand how they can lead to long-lasting psychological trauma and learn to provide support for those affected. (wikipedia.org)
  • Until now, Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people and destroyed large parts of New Orleans, had been considered by far the costliest weather-related disaster, racking up nearly $164 billion in economic losses. (ticotimes.net)
  • Climate is changing fast, with losses and damages experienced in every region and every sector. (ufz.de)
  • to determine the prevalence of PTSD in the instance of these various events and to identify which symptoms of PTSD correspond to which extreme weather incidents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earth's oceans provide the largest single natural sink for anthropogenic greenhouse gases, in the absence of which the climate impacts of fossil fuel burning would be significantly greater. (theweathernetwork.com)
  • We do that by combining an objective perspective on what current climate science is telling us with our actuarial expertise. (prnewswire.com)
  • It is further unknown how well current climate and impact models simulate the relationships between compound climate features that cause extreme impacts. (ufz.de)
  • Christopher Uejio] C. gattii prefers to live in specific ecological areas, and the climate and geography of Vancouver Island may provide just the right conditions for C. gattii to thrive. (cdc.gov)
  • Source: AMS Policy Statement on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Gilles at 18:33 PM, "unlikely" unfortunately is something subjective, and we see this in action quite frequently in weather forecasting where different forecasters can use very different models. (skepticalscience.com)
  • This free webinar covers the resources, tools, and data developed by Esri and its partners to support integration of meteorological and related information into the everyday work of weather forecasting companies, local governments, utilities, research institutes, insurance companies, first responders, and more. (esri.com)
  • Included in this glossary you'll find terms related to our public forecasting program, weather observations and unique terminology that is of Environment Canada's hurricane centre and ice service products. (gc.ca)
  • We use statistical analyses, process-based modelling and machine learning together with a variety of datasets including climate observations, remotely sensed data, climate model output, and impact model simulations. (ufz.de)
  • COMPOUNDX exploits multiple available data archives of climate and impact model output as well as observation-based datasets to (i) develop statistical tools to identify compound climate features of extreme impacts based on machine learning, (ii) apply the developed tools in the real-world observations, and (iii) evaluate process-based models in their ability to simulate compound features. (ufz.de)