Changing weather patterns and the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events will require substantial investments if farmers are to adapt successfully.

Melting ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns aren't the only potential consequences of climate change.

In about 340 BC, Aristotle described weather patterns in Meteorologica .

Coastal regions are the most vulnerable to many kinds of extreme weather events.

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

Yet many of the highest costs of adapting to changing weather patterns will fall on them.

She has no insurance against erratic weather patterns, gets no subsidies, and has no access to credit.

Less well known are the changes in temperature, weather patterns and wildlife behaviors that accompany total eclipses.

Consider what the IPCC had to say about extreme weather events such as intense hurricanes.

Some point to climate change, with global warming producing deeper droughts and more extreme weather.

But, before millions of people are submerged, many will be struck by extreme weather events.

This has led to an increase in the number and severity of extreme weather events.

To try to compensate for these perturbed weather patterns, Chinese officialdom has launched an unprecedented array of costly projects.

Experts predict that parts of Southern Africa will suffer hotter, drier weather patterns, as will the northern Maghreb region.

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

The varying amount of light and heat received by each hemisphere creates annual changes in weather patterns for each half of the planet.

We all stand to suffer significantly from the effects of climate change, including increased droughts, floods, and other extreme weather conditions.

In Mongolia for instance, where 30 percent of the people are nomadic, SMS information systems are being used to track migration and weather patterns.

Weather patterns are changing the rains, in certain areas, have been failing and great swaths of the continent have been suffering unusually severe drought.

The flight's opposite direction was partly the result of changes in global wind and weather patterns along the planned route since the earlier attempt.

This increases the likelihood of extreme weather events, like Russia s heat wave and Pakistan s floods in 2010, which affected millions of people.

Aiming for 1.5 C could mean a world of difference to countries and communities vulnerable to rising sea levels and extreme weather.

It would draw us back from the brink of unstoppable global warming and its consequences for coastal communities, weather patterns, and, in some regions, habitability.

In its 2012 report on extreme weather, the IPCC said that it puts little trust in any attribution of hurricanes to global warming.

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

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

EILER observed that child workers are exposed to extreme weather conditions, long working hours and a difficult environment while using substandard tools and equipment.

If we prepare societies for more ferocious hurricanes in the future, for example, we are also helping them to cope better with today s extreme weather.

It further highlights the daunting challenges posed by extreme weather on our ability to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to pursue sustainable development.

While it cannot be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.

Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons are likely to increase. Flooding in Europe is likely to intensify, a process that may already have begun.

I have personal experience of how quickly China can move when it sees its all weather friend (Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani s phrase) in extreme distress.

As it is the principal component of Earth's hydrosphere, the world ocean is integral to all known life, forms part of the carbon cycle, and influences climate and weather patterns.

We do not know whether superstorms like Sandy are harbingers of a new normal in the uneasy and unpredictable relationship between climate change and extreme weather events.

Deeply alarmed over the critical condition of millions of homeless and countless injured awaiting immediate response in desperation and pain, being accentuated by extreme weather and difficult terrain,

Meteorological satellites can monitor weather patterns, detect and track storms and monitor frosts and floods. Derived products are produced routinely several times per day, many of them focused on particular hazard events.

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.

Deeply alarmed over the critical condition of millions of homeless and countless injured awaiting immediate response in desperation and pain, which is accentuated by extreme weather and difficult terrain,

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.

Global warming is set to put potable water supplies under increasing strain even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase.

They recognized the dramatic implications that even this amount of warming would have for sea levels, freshwater supplies, agriculture, extreme weather events, public health, and the planet s flora and fauna.

Seemingly dramatic changes in weather patterns including the melting of glaciers in Greenland and the thawing of the Siberian permafrost have at last convinced most business leaders that the time for action is now.

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.

The new Sustainable Development Goals should be explicitly linked to environmental issues after all, hunger cannot be eliminated without taking into account the complex interaction between agriculture, water, and extreme weather.

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.