Sentences with phrase «about impact of drought»

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Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

«Because of the impact of drought in recent years, many Australians would be well aware that water is a key element of food production and processing, and so water is a key element of thinking about sustainability.

To date, concerns about climate change's impact on agriculture have focused on drought — another likely outcome of warming world.

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.»

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.

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.

Students will learn about the impacts of climate change and drought on trees.

Despite their outsized impacts on drought, little is known about the predictability of these multi-year La Niña events.

Mooney agreed that all these features played a role in making the report particularly effective, and then choose to emphasize the point about impacts already felt, picking out the example of the Texas drought of 2011.

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.

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.

Your first thought of climate change might be about its impacts — drought and deluge, warming temperatures, rising sea levels and acidic oceans, among many others — which are happening now.

The recent drought, thus far, pales hydrologically in comparison... Spatially, the mid-12th century drought covers all of the western U.S. and northern Mexico... whereas the 21st century drought has not impacted parts of the Pacific Northwest... The 21st century drought has lasted about a decade so far, whereas the 12th century medieval drought persisted with an extent and severity... for two decades, 1140 — 1159 [AD]... In both instrumental and paleoclimatic records, periods of sustained drought in the Southwest have often been concurrent with elevated temperatures.

This is precisely the point Climate Science Watch has been underscoring — not just about droughts and floods, but about the panoply of likely climate change impacts coming down the pike.

But since you never tell us about the impact from these natural trends (droughts, starvation, disease, war etc.) and just seem to think you can chuck out absolutist comments about this, we know you're full of it....

But at the end of day, as far as drought impacts go, we only care about those impacts to the extent that we have below normal soil moisture, or streamflow, or reservoir storage.

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

We would have added words about the importance of climate change preparedness, i.e., proactive steps to limit the damage from «the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.»

Ecosystem responses to past rainfall variability in the Sahel are potentially useful as an analogue of future climate change impacts, in the light of projections that extreme drought - affected terrestrial areas will increase from 1 % to about 30 % globally by the 2090s (Burke et al., 2006).

Yohe and colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Industrial Economics Inc say that they are highly confident that impacts caused by hydrologic drought — on agriculture and water availability, for example — will be increasingly negative and widespread over time, despite persistent uncertainty about projected precipitation patterns.