Extreme events, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes, will be less extreme and less frequent with successful mitigation.

Projections indicate that extreme weather events will become more common in the future.

Expressing its deep concern at the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters,

(b) Improving access to high quality data and information on current and future climate variability and extreme events

Look no further than the insurance industry as they struggle to cope with mounting catastrophic losses from extreme weather events.

Climate change impacts are already evident in regions of such States, with the frequency and intensity of extreme natural events increasing.

When we have extreme El Nino events, you see all this red, and you see no green out here around the Galapagos.

Mr. Ian Burton, independent consultant, Canada, stressed the importance of motivating individuals to spread technologies for adaptation, especially relating to extreme events.

In many rural areas, deteriorating and outdated infrastructure has lost its resilience to climate related extreme events such as hurricanes and droughts.

Taking into account that extreme weather events and associated natural disasters and their reduction must be dealt with in a coherent and effective manner,

Taking into account the fact that extreme weather events and associated natural disasters and their reduction must be dealt with in a coherent manner,

5. Underscores the importance of maintaining the El Niño Southern Oscillation observation system, continuing research into extreme weather events, improving forecasting skills and developing appropriate policies for reducing the impact of the El Niño phenomenon and other extreme weather events and emphasizes the need to further develop and strengthen these institutional capacities in all countries, in particular in developing countries

7. Underscores the importance of maintaining the El Niño Southern Oscillation observation system, continuing research into extreme weather events, improving forecasting skills and developing appropriate policies for reducing the impact of the El Niño phenomenon and other extreme weather events, and emphasizes the need to further develop and strengthen these institutional capacities in all countries, in particular in developing countries

Almost all Parties are concerned that future climate change would lead to an increase in frequency and intensity of extreme events, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes and El Niño effects. However, further understanding of the relationships between climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme events is hampered by high levels of uncertainty surrounding the magnitude of the changes that have been projected using GCMs.

Welcomes the increasing number of events associated with the celebration, on 17 October of each year, of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the opportunity which these events provide to people and populations living in extreme poverty to make their voices heard

Even if we limit the rise in global temperatures, climate change is here to stay. Communities are already facing more extreme and frequent droughts, floods, and other weather events.

There is evidence that the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events will increase over many areas worldwide, notably over many northern hemisphere mid to high latitude land areas.

And also, as an increase in extreme weather events due to climate change, they're expecting more waves to come in over the fringing reef, which will contaminate their fresh water supply.

Heatwaves and droughts on one hand, directly from the warming, but also, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor with its latent energy, rainfall will become in more extreme events.

The fact that heat waves like the one in Russia become more frequent and extreme in a warmer world is easy to understand. Extreme rainfall events will also become more frequent and intense in a warmer climate, owing to another simple fact of physics warm air can hold more moisture.

Many researchers believe that the threat to life and property from NEOs, when averaged over long periods, is comparable to that from more familiar natural hazards such as earthquakes and extreme weather events.

Expressing deep concern at the increasing negative impact of severe natural hazards, including earthquakes, extreme weather events and associated natural disasters, which continues to hinder social and economic progress, in particular in developing countries,

Noting the need for international cooperation to increase the capacity of countries to respond to the negative impacts of all natural hazards, including extreme weather events and associated natural disasters, particularly in developing countries,

Examples include technology for conservation and sustainable use such as resilience of ecosystems, and adaptive capacity and technology that makes use of genetic resources such as crops with higher resistance against extreme climate events.

Taking into account the various ways and forms in which all countries, in particular the more vulnerable developing countries, are affected by severe natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and extreme weather events such as heatwaves, severe droughts, floods and storms, and El Niño La Niña events, which have global reach,

Noting the need for international cooperation to increase the capacity of countries to respond to the negative impacts of all natural hazards, including earthquakes, extreme weather events and associated natural disasters, particularly in developing countries,

Expressing its deep concern also at the enormous negative impact of severe natural hazards, including extreme weather events and associated natural disasters, which continues to hinder social and economic progress, in particular in developing countries,

Additionally, many Parties applied statistical analysis and spatial temporal analogues to develop climate change scenarios for various time horizons up to 2100, which they used to infer relationships between mean climate change and extreme events.

Because of recent extreme weather events, the draft attempted to reflect the intensive effort undertaken at the national, regional and international levels to address such phenomena and to implement the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Taking into account the various ways and forms in which all countries, in particular the more vulnerable countries, are affected by severe natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and extreme weather events such as heat waves, severe droughts, floods and storms, and the El Niño La Niña events, which have global reach,

Last year, Hurricane Sandy caused a wall of water to engulf low lying coastal areas on the East Coast of the United States, particularly in New York and New Jersey. Such catastrophic events underscore the vulnerability of coastal regions worldwide to extreme weather events that produce intense storm surges (increased water depth at the coast) and large, powerful waves.

Extreme poverty

The latest IPCC report describes our current predicament with disturbing clarity global temperatures are climbing, mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe.

(b) Cultural events (museum exhibitions, musical events, film festivals)

That's the extreme

Extreme Tux Racer

NEW YORK The hurricane on America s eastern seaboard last week (which I experienced in lower Manhattan) adds to a growing collection of extreme weather events from which lessons should be drawn. Climate experts have long argued that the frequency and magnitude of such events are increasing, and evidence of this should certainly influence precautionary steps and cause us to review such measures regularly.

Indeed, as was the case with the global financial crisis, investors seem unable to estimate, price, and hedge such tail risks properly. Only time will tell whether their current nonchalance constitutes another failure to assess and prepare for extreme events.

Sleep deprivation is extreme.

A very extreme culture.

Citizens versus Extreme Poverty

Extreme cold covered Europe.

Expressing deep concern at the recent increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters in some regions of the world and their substantial economic, social and environmental impacts, in particular upon developing countries in those regions,

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