Sentences with phrase «about by drought»

Not exact matches

Hydro - electric generators that supply about 70 % of Brazil's electricity were limited during the drought, sending spot power prices on Jan. 31, the peak of the Southern Hemisphere summer, to the maximum allowed by the government, or 822 reais ($ 362) per megawatt hour.

New York City saved $ 6.5 billion by thinking differently about water — and might avoid the drought problems faced by California, as a result

Also, in the number you're thinking about, you're including a total count of those that died within a certain period, including those that died from famines caused by droughts and so on.

One concern I now have about chocolate sustainability is scientists and the Mars chocolate company are trying «save» chocolate by modifying it so it will be more resistant to drought and pests.

Not only did his superbly smashed goal seal the win for the Gunners by putting us 3 - 0 up at the break, but it ended the mini scoring drought that people in the football media had begun to bang on about.

Maybe you should specify by talking about the premier league trophy when referring to our drought.

They were two goals ahead on aggregate, it was almost a certainty that they were finally going to put an end to their drought, their visiting fans were getting louder and play by play analysts were starting to wax poetic about the team that was finally going to get back to their rightful place as an elite Mexican squad.

The Dutchman was irked by a question about his captain's goal drought in the Premier League.

The report comes amid mounting concerns about water supplies in the south - east following two dry winters, with hosepipe bans in force and a drought order already implemented by one water firm.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

Still, computer simulations suggest that about a third of the recent drought's severity could have been caused by elevated temperatures linked to climate change, the researchers found.

About 80 percent of the 23 climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict some degree of drought in the Amazon if greenhouse gas emissions keep climbing, he said.

The extreme events induced by climate change will have drastic consequences on forest functions and services and may bring about important drought - induced die - off events.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

They have concluded that climate change from about 4000 years ago, in particular more drought - prone seasons caused by the onset of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation, was the likely main cause of mainland extinction.

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.

By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Jan 9 (Reuters)- Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said.

This is in contrast to the more immediate response seen in the Amazon, such as large - scale tree mortality, brought about by more episodic drought events.

Studying the severe drought in São Paulo, the largest city in South America with a population of about 20 million, a team led by Friederike Otto found that human - induced climate change was not a major influence.

It showed, surprisingly, that drought stress is driven as much by growing season temperatures as winter snowpack.Carswell is deftly layering in the science and building a case about the impact of future warming.

by Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley An oft - neglected layer of weathered rock underlying the soil on hillslopes could be a... [Read More...] about Hidden «rock moisture» may be key to tree survival during drought

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

Last summer, Chopra worked at a refugee camp on the border of Ethiopia and Somalia that held about 100,000 kids and 50,000 adults driven there by the drought in the Horn of Africa and instability in Somalia.

Archaeologists today generally believe that a combination of elements brought about the collapse of the Maya empire, probably brought on by severe drought and deforestation.

The area has long suffered from a food crisis brought about by chronic underdevelopment, drought and conflict.

I'm not so sure about your assertion that hurricane intensity is not driven by temperature gradient (warm tropical ocean; cool overlying air), nor about droughts.

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?

Furthermore during the research process for the documentary I repeatedly raised my concerns about linking the indirect effect and the Sahel drought without mentioning the study by Giannini et al (Science, 2004).

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».

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.

And let's make it clear, whatever the controversy about some of the effects of GW, it IS happening, and (I think) we are on firm ground with floods, droughts, glacier melt, and sea rise as being caused by AGW.

Concerning the «debate» highlighted by the above exchanges between Pielke and Holdren, the issue isnt about analogues to past droughts (which, by the way, the California resource managers were more interested in), but about the scientific evidence that California droughts have become more severe due to climate change.

These emissions have raised global temperatures by about 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since the Industrial Revolutions leading to melting glaciers, sea level rise, vanishing Arctic sea ice, species migrations, and increases in extreme weather such as droughts and floods.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

The end of the first half of the Holocene — between about 5 and 4 ka — was punctuated by rapid events at various latitudes, such as an abrupt increase in NH sea ice cover (Jennings et al., 2001); a decrease in Greenland deuterium excess, reflecting a change in the hydrological cycle (Masson - Delmotte et al., 2005b); abrupt cooling events in European climate (Seppa and Birks, 2001; Lauritzen, 2003); widespread North American drought for centuries (Booth et al., 2005); and changes in South American climate (Marchant and Hooghiemstra, 2004).

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

As droughts have worsened, water bottling companies like Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, andNestlé are finding themselves under the microscope of public opinion for taking public water resources, packaging them for substantial profit, and then failing to adequately respond to public concerns about their local impacts, lack of transparency of data sharing, and their role in helping share the burdens imposed by water shortages and drought.

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

With increasing drought and higher temperatures in the western U.S. climate scientists worry about increasing fire frequency by drying and warming landscapes.

The most recent drought from 2006 to 2007 reduced Australia's economic growth by about 0.75 percent.2 It curtailed agriculture, killing sheep and drastically cutting grain yields.2 Restrictions on water use in urban areas cost around $ 815 million each year, and affected more than 80 percent of Australian households.2

Our beef is mostly with the enablers, handlers and promoters of this sorry state of affairs — most of whom could not give a flying **** about the environment, starvation and drought, true pollution, overfishing, your health and prosperity or anything but their bottom line being nourished by the fake alarm in question.

However, by simply saying that «climate change is real», a variety of activists, researchers and politicians can deliver a great deluge of non-sequiturs about sea - level rise, species extinction, drought, famine, resources wars and so on.

According to Griffin & Anchukaitis, the record heat intensified the drought by about 36 %, leading to exceptional drought conditions unprecedented in the past 1,200 years.

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.

The warming records that article talks about are one offs, and beat by a slim temporary margin, whereas things like the California droughts are historical and mostly in a desert area already, which was charged up by heavy rainfall this spring, which led to so many ladder fuels to burn when it inevitably dries out by mid summer to late fall.

The climate change debate is finally arriving at this third stage, with unsettling predictions about populations displaced by sea - level rise, drought and storm damage, etc..

A new report provides a national assessment on the possible impact of drought brought about by global warming.

This paper set about to make a claim while ignoring a more complete history they concentrated on the MWP to claim alarm due to drought caused by warming.

Droughts are particularly costly, comprising about 12 percent of the events by number, but about double that (23.8 percent) by total cost.