Sentences with phrase «how about drought»

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After a long trophy drought, Arsenal have now won two FA Cups in successive seasons, and have avoided the Champions League Qualifying round for next year, but when Rosicky was asked what he thought about the season just past instead of saying how well the club did he turned the conversation back to his «frustration».

Remember how much the football media banged on about the trophy drought?

Giroud is a player who thrives on confidence so if he had not scored that hat - trick at the end of last season to break the long scoring drought and then done himself justice at the Euros I would have been worried about how the Lucas Perez signing would affect him.

Research needs still not met Luce said those on the front lines of forest management have a lot to think about, and planning specifically for how climate change will impact drought conditions is «probably at the early stages.»

If you don't talk about how drought and lack of food and water leads to insecurity, then these problems don't get dealt with.

Willingly overlooking the science amounts to a fundamental failure of water management, leading water experts say, one that is leading to decisions about how to use it that will deepen and prolong the drought's painful effects.

«Now that this most recent drought is in the rearview mirror, there are still questions about how much natural recovery we can expect in groundwater and how water will be managed in the Central Valley.»

This approach should be useful to managers who must decide how much water to release for agricultural use or to conserve behind dams, especially as climate change is expected to bring about more frequent and extreme floods and droughts.

«It's quite likely that the intensity of both floods and droughts will be an issue, so it's really about how do we plan given the uncertainty and increased variability, which are the only guarantees we have,» said Palaniappan.

The researchers set out to understand how this drought tolerance came about by comparing the set of expressed genes (the transcriptome) in the mutants to that in normal (so - called wild - type) plants.

«We're interested in looking at how the drought is affecting their populations and also the distributions throughout the valley in addition to being concerned about the spread of avian influenza,» Buler said.

The more Jansson and her colleagues are able to learn about previously unknown communities of microbes, the better they'll be able to predict how these communities will react to different conditions — droughts, warmer weather or floods, just to kick off the list.

There is relatively little consensus about how climate change will affect the incidence of persistent drought at global and regional scales, in large part due to the uncertainties discussed above.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

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Learning objectives: - To understand what drought is - To think about how drought can affect people, wildlife and the environment - To understand how we can all make a difference by reducing our water usage

While it offers a much needed respite from a record - setting drought that lasted roughly half a decade, the conditions are less than ideal for reviewing most new cars, as SoCal freeways typically grind to a halt when it rains and the safe pace required in such weather usually provides very little information about how a vehicle really behaves at speed under typical use.

Vivi explains about the drought and how the civil war started.

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In the latest episode of the Entertainment Buddha - cast myself, Keith, and Ana talk about the summer video game release drought and how

Striking how this blog talks about polar bears, hurricanes, melting glaciers, melting sea ice, disappearing frogs, intelligence estimates, the snows of Kilimanjaro, drought, famine, insect infestations, too much rain, lack of rain, and who knows what else, and links it all to AGW.

Gaps in understanding of how global warming will affect Africa hold back planning efforts and have led to persistent uncertainty about the causes of recent droughts and famines.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

One thing I keep wondering about (in relationship to storms, drought, in particular) is how paleoclimate work so often resets the bar on what is thought of as rare or extreme.

The main question is when will these extremes hit the global food supply and cause shortages, just this week there are articles about how China's rice and grain crops are being stressed by flooding and drought events.

Reading them, you come to realize how frequently weather stories you hear — whether about storms in the Northeast, or droughts in the Southwest — all fit within the pattern of how our climate is changing.

In recent months, water challenges imposed by the current severe drought have brought this agricultural water use into the limelight, raising new questions about how the water is

These findings require us to think about how we would adapt if even more severe droughts lasting over a decade were to occur in our future,» Anchukaitis said.

How about 500 million human deaths by starvation from droughts if the economy can still grow, is this a cost?

Peter Gleick: Why California's Current Drought Is Different 8.23.2016 — Nearly 30 years after founding the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank, Peter Gleick talks about California's current drought, how it compares to past crises and how the state needs... Read More.

«It is a direct indicator of just how little weight his administration is giving to warnings from climate scientists about longer droughts, stronger storms and rising seas:»

The next time you read some horrific article about how global warming is going to make the sea - level rise, cause droughts, floods, and just about anything else you can name including 3 - eyed cows and cooties, remember that the climate model used to predict it is crap.

Global Workplace Dr Peter Saul www.petersaul.com.au Presentation to Diversity Council Australia's Annual Conference on Diversity 22 November 2007 Melbourne Overview How can we most profitably think about the topic / world faced food shortages because of severe droughts due to global warming Environmental Social % Aust.

We can also think about hydrological drought, or how decreased precipitation affects streamflow, soil moisture, reservoir and lake levels, and groundwater recharge.

It appeared first as an Image of the Day about how these moisture superhighways fueled a series of drought - busting rain and snow storms.

Nearly 30 years after founding the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank, Peter Gleick talks about California's current drought, how it compares to past crises and how the state needs to change water - use mentality.

Dr. Schmidt's quip about «five standard deviations» being good enough for the Higg's boson tumbles through the mind as one ponders how many standard deviations does it take to create a «one - in - five - hundred - year drought?»

There have been recent articles about how climate change going forward will decrease food production, because of increased droughts and heavy floods.

Well how about global warming, drought, famine, flooding, and the like After all, it's sponsored by The Weather Channel, and with global warming the most pressing issue we face, I suspect we could use as many brains working the topic as possible.

I have seen a large number of discussions recently about droughts and how they will be getting worse with a warmer Earth.

The paper was about how the enhanced tropical warm pool in the Indian ocean, «caused by global warming», appears to have caused increased drought in Eastern Africa:

In a time when we're struggling to figure out how we're going to feed everyone in the face of a changing climate, severe droughts, and increasingly scarce freshwater resources, the news that we currently waste about a third of all the food produced in the US should be cause for serious concern.

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