Working with diverse stakeholders, Federal agencies are preparing for a range of climate and extreme weather impacts that put people, property, local economies, and ecosystems at risk.
First, in recent years, we've seen a surge in climate and extreme weather events, along with analysis and other evidence that the world is on an unsustainable course.
Earlier this month, Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) linked extreme weather to climate change in a special report.
For insurance companies, using catastrophe models that can better anticipate probable effects of climate change on extreme weather events are key.
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Swapping out meat just once per week would also help reduce the emissions that are contributing to climate change and extreme weather.
Now he warns, human activity in the space of less than 200 years threatens to re-awaken extreme climate change of the sort never experienced in the era of recorded history.
According to Lovelock, this is why his predictions on climate change are more extreme, but also more accurate than those of leading scientific bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which he claims is limited in its assessment because it is made up of specialists whose focus is too narrow.
"However, in practice, the extreme economic climate of recent years has meant that BoE has not been conducting policy strictly in accordance with its 2% policy, " she said, adding that it had paid "greater heed to the performance of the real economy" in recent times.
Depending on the capricious whims of the extreme Arctic climate and calendar, thick clouds reveal remote fragments of the landscape as if concealing some great mystery, blinding sunshine illuminates the ice, or perpetual moonlight bathes it all in the strange, blue half-light of the polar night.
The territory is characterized by elevated plains, hills, lake depressions and marked by an extreme-continental climate.
It claimed climate change would mean more extreme weather and an increased risk of a marine accident.
We must understand and adapt to a changing climate, including more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, drought and floods, and continued sea level rise.
In one recently published study, six international research teams led by scientists from NOAA and a number of countries investigated seven different 2011 extreme weather and climate events.
While this excellent overview was published last December, the numbers are revealing in ways perhaps least understood: we can engender actuarial tables for insurers and re-insurers with respect to human mortalities directly or indirectly correlated to climate change (as in extreme weather events, etc.).
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There was none as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought.
As climate change increases the likelihood of extreme weather events, we must be prepared for storms powerful enough to destroy whole communities.
Feedback will be incorporated into the subsequent event, "Power Shift NZ-Pacific" which runs from the 7th to 9th of December, to ensure the presence of a Pacific perspective to climate change - an issue of extreme significance to the Pacific region.
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To highlight these actions, today we are releasing a new report that outlines the Federal Government's progress in expanding and strengthening the Nation's capacity to better understand, prepare for, and respond to extreme events and other climate change impacts.
Extreme weather, influenced by climate change, creates other taxpayer risks.
While it's impossible to say that any particular event was "caused by global warming, " says Shepherd, climate change loads the deck, making extreme events such as last year's Superstorm Sandy more likely.
Such data is expected eventually to have wide application, informing climate studies, weather forecasts and warnings of extreme events, such as flooding.
MS. CLAUSSEN: There are many reasons to put a price on carbon, the most important being that climate change is already costing society (through extreme weather events), and we need to take action to limit those costs.
"As we change the climate, we're shifting the odds for extreme weather, " he said.
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On paper, making the connection between specific extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and climate change is seen as a communications strategy.
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Phenomena like La Nina have always been around, but large areas of extreme warming have only come about with climate change, the study said.
If any topical reminder was needed, it comes with the publication, coinciding with the London conference, of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which urges the world to build on the full knowledge base to address the proved risks of climate change and increase resilience for those exposed to extreme events.
Using data from WeatherReports.com and from various national climate sites of European countries, Baker pegged the most extreme weather on the continent.
The frequency, duration and intensity of extreme weather events are expected to rise with climate change, increasing the need for risk management.
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy has focused minds on the urgency of improving the climate resiliency of coastal cities exposed to the fury of extreme weather events and rising seas.
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Climate change is the natural rule, not the exception, and extreme weather events are part of the deal.
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