Sentences with phrase «what about droughts»

What about droughts and water loss?

Not exact matches

«I started going back and trying to think about what I use in my day - to - day work,» said Peter Gleick, a hydrologist who looks at the movement of water all over the world to understand and predict droughts and flooding.

What now of ministry to royalty, To those who eat and drink and ride about In mighty chariots; who know no hurt Though drought and famine stalk the earth And decimate the human family;

BTW - Since you are a «believer» what is the prevailing notion going around about the drought in Texas, btw...

When crops fail, famine strikes, or drought occurs, what are your thoughts about God's involvement in such things?

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».

In the run - up to the 2014 final, Wenger faced repeated questions about Arsenal's nine - year trophy drought and what another failure might mean for his own future.

Mauricio Pochettino knows what it feels like to end a trophy drought — and we are not talking here about Tottenham Hotspur's three pieces of silverwa -LRB-...)

«We know that these fungi are important in relation to the absorption of nutrients and water as well as for tolerance to diseases, but what about extreme conditions such as droughts and heat?

Without baseline information about what killed trees before the drought, Das explains, ecologists would have overlooked these details.

«That helps inform us about what the past historic droughts and floods were like.»

What was different about this drought was temperature: It was a degree or two hotter.

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

I don't think they should have left town, but with the town being so small, it was easier to leave and leave the past behind them than live with people talking about them behind their backs for the rest of their lives and thinking one of them was... - tswaine Do you think the drought's effects on the town made people less likely to question what happened to the Hadlers?

About them, Adams writes: What would account for the condition of the leaves — drought, insects, rocky ground, disease, herbicide, wind?

We can handle the odd year like 2010 when drought reduced the Russian wheat crop by a quarter, flood wiped out a substantial portion of Pakistan's crop, and then Autsralia's that winter, but what about when it starts to happen year after year?

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.

For those wanting more on the science, there's no better starting place than a recent talk by B. Lynn Ingram, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of «The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow.»

They added that the vast environmental changes brought about by the process will increase droughts and sandstorms over the rest of the country, and devastate many of the world's greatest rivers, in what experts warn will be an «ecological catastrophe».

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.

Mr. Hillerman, who died last month, was a reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican then, and what he wrote in 1957 about bark beetles stripping «a vast area of Northern New Mexico of its pinon and ponderosa pine» might have been written in the recent drought of 2002 - 2003.

And once you open the Pandora's box of geoengineered climate, what do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want, or if some poor nation objects to suffering drought in order to cancel heat waves in Chicago?

But what does the drought really mean for the things we care about: food production, fisheries, industrial activities, rural communities?

What is more, I think that what we know about the greenhouse effect and what we have seen of the warming, ice melt, increased drought, increased inpulsive precipitation etc. is sufficient to establish a credible thrWhat is more, I think that what we know about the greenhouse effect and what we have seen of the warming, ice melt, increased drought, increased inpulsive precipitation etc. is sufficient to establish a credible thrwhat we know about the greenhouse effect and what we have seen of the warming, ice melt, increased drought, increased inpulsive precipitation etc. is sufficient to establish a credible thrwhat we have seen of the warming, ice melt, increased drought, increased inpulsive precipitation etc. is sufficient to establish a credible threat.

Then there's just this record - breaking precipitation that we're seeing, which is also linked to warmer baseline temperatures, because when you have warmer temperatures, you have drought, but you also have these freak precipitation events, these big dumps, whether of storm when you think about Boston and those images of cars fully submerged in snow, or what's happening right now in Texas, where you're getting 10 months worth of rain in a period of days.

Gillian Mellsop, Unicef representative to Ethiopia, is under no illusions about what is happening to the country: it is experiencing one of the worst droughts in its history.

They suggest that during previous warm periods — one about 120,000 years ago and another about 10,000 years ago — the Middle East saw severe drought, with rainfall decreasing to at least half of what it typically is today, and at its worst drying up by 80 percent, Columbia University explained in a statement.

so forget about those «far worse droughts» over a thousand years ago and ponder more on what will happen to you now... or to use a metaphor of opposite to drought, as Bill Cosby famously said for Noah..

What the report says about drought, dust storms, and climate change: The human effect on droughts is complicated.

But worst of all is your flippant remark «those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change» (i.e. nobody)» What about the people suffering from increased droughts, or floods, or sea - level rises?

He has had a shot at me about the SOI; I don't know what he means; I have linked to the Nicholls paper which shows no alteration in SOI parameters; the Nicholls paper completely contradicts the earlier Power and Smith paper which said the SOI had shifted to a lower level consistent with never - ending droughts.

What that means is, even if you don't care about climate change, even when a normal drought occurs, the impacts are going to be felt that much more.

What about manmade (local) climate change that contributes to all sorts of disasters from drought to flooding.

Anthony Watts recently published a post about the current drought in the U.S. titled To NCDC: We Haven't Seen an El Nino since 2009/10, What Do You Expect?

During this current drought, we need greater public education about drought and its impacts in order to gain a broader perspective about what actions the state and individuals could take to reduce demand and increase supply.

In the midst of the California drought and the hot summer months ahead, more data and public information are needed about what to expect and what are our options for action.

That's why I thought it was incorrect to infer anything about a climate change, much less what forced it, from a regional drought that was less than a decade.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

What about the increased fire probability from higher temperatures alone, apart from drought?