Sentences with phrase «about the drought as»

In her last days at the Water Authority, Mulroy began to talk about the drought as a natural disaster — like a flood, which often garners federal aid money and a swift emergency response — just slower moving.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Ending that much talked about trophy drought and finally paying big money for a world class player — this season could be described as «transformational» for the club.

The same can be said about Giroud who can not score a goal at the moment which is shown as he is on his longest drought of 9 games.

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.

Predictions about drought and hurricanes becoming more frequent are seen as less certain now than they were thought to be in 2007

The drought - triggered aspen die - off has affected about 17 percent of aspen forests in Colorado, as well as parts of the western United States and Canada.

Stanford researchers think that our numbers may have gotten as low as about 2,000 individuals, possibly because of drought.

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.

Researchers linked dated graffiti about droughts in a cave in China to physical evidence in the cave of the water shortages, such as changes in ratios of stable isotopes in specific layers of stalagmites

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.

«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?

But less is known about many other organisms, such as another type of beetle that suddenly began assailing incense cedars during the drought or the weevil that started attacking young pines.

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.

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.

However, droughts in 1994 and 1982 were about as dry as the 2002 drought.

But talking about a major hurricane drought comes with some caveats, particularly as the U.S. coastal population grows and more people who have never experienced a hurricane in any form move to coastal areas.

«We have teamed up with the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources to give disadvantaged high school students the opportunity to learn about current projects such as drought programs, infrastructure projects and transport programs,» he said.

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.

Before the end of the almost 10 - year drought about a quarter of a million people had left the Great Plains, often journeying West (such as the Joads family in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath), but at least two - thirds hunkered down and stayed put, and it is their stories that Egan records.

The high price tag, lackluster Nintendo Land pack - in game, and impending new release drought put me off picking one up, and since I was about to become engaged to a woman I loved very much at the time, I knew my free gaming hours would be on the decline (plus I had a ring to buy around the same time as the console's release).

Either way, after a long drought Marvel fans are about to enjoy some truly amazing titles starting with Spider - Man, the PlayStation 4 exclusive title which Insomniac is trying to make every bit as great as the best first - party content on the platform.

Global warming may be of some benefit in certain regions for some period of time, however, it will continue as it already is now, bring about more chaotic weather patterns, droughts, famine, floods, crop shortages etc... We are actually witnessing it now.

1974 Serious droughts since 1972 increase concern about climate; cooling from aerosols is suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of a new ice age.

Seems to me the past La Niña induced drought and high temperatures in Texas were about as horrible as ever experienced in the last hundred years or so.

Public opinion polls indicate that concern about global warming has been going down, even as the evidence (giant forest fires, drought, floods, record setting hot days etc) becomes so ironclad that it's almost a joke.

On the national scale, severe to extreme drought continues to affect about 18 percent of the contiguous United States as of the end of October 2007.

Then we talked about the political imperatives driving rampant development, which are almost as enduring a feature of the central Texas landscape as its floods and droughts.

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.

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.

@ some point, we ought think about NOT using terms of comfort such as «drought,» to describe California.

I agree with your sentiment that drought is the big driver on impact, and Wally emphasized the possibility for mega-droughts as something to worry about re future abrupt changes.

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).

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.

It's been criticized, and may well not be the last word on the subject, but their estimate was droughts such as the one that was observed are about 3x more likely under the observed warming than in an «unwarmed» world.

Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.

I'd risk saying that Dan H. will remain as convinced as before about the decreasing droughts, even after his childish mistake is pointed out.

They don't have to worry about flooding or drought in Bangladesh, as the sea will soon be rising up catastrophically and engulfing the whole country, according to CAGW theory.

With record temperatures the past seven months; with 2016 almost certainly going to be the hottest year globally on record (beating out 2015 and 2014); with the Great Barrier Reef sustaining massive (perhaps irreversible) damage due to global warming induced coral bleaching; and with Donald Trump bloviating about droughts and picking a global warming denier as his energy advisor, the sooner the deniers like Smith are out of power, the better our planet — the better all of us, every human on Earth — will be.

However, because we're talking about larger patterns, the drought isn't «proof» of climate change — just as cold weather isn't «proof» that it's a hoax.

Despite Abnormally Dry conditions expanding from 17 percent to 40 percent of the region during the month, only about 3 percent of the Midwest was rated in drought as of the January 27th release of the Drought Monitor.

The congregation stood about, Coat - collars to the ears, And talked of stock, and crops, and drought, As it had done for years.

The team, consisting of about a dozen Berkeley Lab researchers in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, has conducted analyses of technologies as diverse as solar photovoltaics, drought - resistant biofuels, carbon sequestration and electrochromic windows.

The climate forecast for 2100 looks to be about the same - the world's climate (s) will be about the same as today, possibly a bit warmer or cooler (<.5 degC), with rain, drought, hurricanes, large amounts of polar ice, and the possiblity of some worldwide disaster.

Serious droughts and other unusual weather since 1972 increase scientific and public concern about climate change, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of ice age.

Any paper that asserts things about temperature vs drought for the North American continent (or even just the USA) as a whole is going to be broken.

If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.