Sentences with phrase «about drought related»

While a recent report tells us current droughts in the western USA hardly make the top ten, we have this from Stanford University, a claim about drought related crop insurance claims that doesn't seem to match data on national yields and trend.

Not exact matches

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.

Any careful reading of the 2013 IPCC report and other recent scientific literature about on the subject reveals that droughts have been worsening in some regions in recent decades while lessening in other regions, and that the IPCC's «low confidence» about a global trend relates mainly to the question of total area prone to drought and a lack of sufficient measurements to settle it.

While drought (median of 41 %) is still the predominant climate change - related concern in the Asia - Pacific region, worry about severe weather (median of 34 %) follows close behind.