Sentences with phrase «about the drought saying»

We spoke out about the drought saying the government must help.

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«Backup power is going to be of value certainly to businesses that worry about disruptions from hurricanes, storms, or even droughts that make water scarce for utilities,» Makower says.

«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.

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».

All in all you would have to say pretty good, because the muppets in the football media can no longer ask Arsene Wenger and every Arsenal player they interview about da da daaa, «trophy drought `.

I derive a lot of satisfaction from not hearing anyone say that Arsenal's long trophy drought is about to end because we bought Ozil.

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.

«When people talk about climate change, or droughts, or are worried about wildlife habitat, these are all things we've been working on the last 20 or 30 years,» said Kenna.

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.»

Willingly overlooking the science amounts to a fundamental failure of water management, leading water experts say, one that is leading to decisions about how to use it that will deepen and prolong the drought's painful effects.

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.

Even the northeastern United States - a region normally omitted from any serious talk about domestic drought - is at risk, said Dorothy Peteet, a senior research scientist with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

«It's quite likely that the intensity of both floods and droughts will be an issue, so it's really about how do we plan given the uncertainty and increased variability, which are the only guarantees we have,» said Palaniappan.

Policymakers tend to think about climate change in «very confined areas» without considering the ripple effects, King said, so it's important to demonstrate the links between things like climate change, droughts and conflicts.

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.

«We're interested in looking at how the drought is affecting their populations and also the distributions throughout the valley in addition to being concerned about the spread of avian influenza,» Buler said.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

«They do a nice job showing that exceptionally warm temperatures from 2012 - 2014 amplified drought conditions for California,» Nate Mantua, a climate scientist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center who has previously written about temperature variations in the region, said.

I think with the Vita, I had Gravity Rush (daze) and Uncharted, then there was nothing, for probably 5 months lol and the pattern just seemed to go on like that, took about a year before 2 games came out that I could say I really wanted like Uncharted and Gravity Rush again, that was Persona 4 and Soul Sacrifice, then literally, another years wait for Ys Celceta to come out, I just think the Wii U has managed better since that first year drought they had, plus I've had Wii mode to ponder which helps, I bought a ps3 on it's release and mostly played ps2 games on it, unfortunately it broke down a lot and I got fed up always sending it back, not really had many problems with my slim though, just don't love the system like I loved my ps2.

«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.

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«I think the current drought opens the door to a real conversation about fundamental changes in California water policy,» Gleick said.

These findings require us to think about how we would adapt if even more severe droughts lasting over a decade were to occur in our future,» Anchukaitis said.

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.

BTW, keep in mind everyone, since we're talking about policy Hansen also made some other predictions in that context based on his 1988 study, particularly re drought and sea level rise (some are in the hearing notes), which also proved to be, shall we say, overly enthusiastic.

scaffetta's toy model says nothing about ice extent, nothing about drought, nothing about the sequencing and the triggers.

However, suffice it to say that the latest draft version actually has more information about North American mega-droughts than the previous version, including Figure 5.12 which now depicts the severity duration and frequency of droughts in North America.

Hansen did not say anything about droughts becoming more frequent.

It is too early to say much about such a recent episode but various studies have attributed earlier individual heatwaves or drought to global warming, notably those in Europe in 2003, Russia [continue reading...]

«First and foremost, we found that corn and soybean yields were the same across the three systems,» said Pimentel, who noted that although organic corn yields were about one - third lower during the first four years of the study, over time the organic systems produced higher yields, especially under drought conditions.

«About $ 10 billion worth of crops per year, globally, has been lost to drought and heat waves,» Lesk said.

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.

While St. Louis doesn't have to worry directly about sea levels or ice melt, stronger weather patterns including more droughts and floods are likely consequences of global warming, they said.

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..

Across the nations surveyed, the threat of droughts or water shortages is the most troubling potential effect of global climate change — a median of 44 % say they are most concerned about this possibility.

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

«The reality is that politicians who say government «can do something about droughts, floods, sea levels, hurricanes, and tornadoes are practicing the equivalent of medieval witchcraft.»

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.

Paul Aharon of the University of Alabama says his latest observations are the first to suggest that drought affected the southeastern United States from about 13,000 to 11,800 years ago — during the so - called Younger Dryas cool period.

The recent drought in Syria that we wrote about before (lasting from from 2007 - 2011 — the onset of the Arab Spring) is part of larger, longer - lasting drought in the Eastern Mediterranean, also referred to as Levant, that the authors say started around the year 1998.

However, since climate models are better able to capture broad patterns of middle atmospheric pressure (which are strongly linked to precipitation) than precipitation itself, it's likely that we can still say something meaningful about trends in large - scale atmospheric patterns conducive to low precipitation (and, therefore, drought).

While we have relatively high confidence for temperature extremes and some confidence in precipitation extremes, as yet we can say relatively little about storms, droughts and floods.

The current situation is particularly unfortunate, Dutcher said, because the Nebraskans need information about their changing climate, especially the prospect of increased drought in the state.

It's about predicting generalities and things which have to happen anyway (drought in California, Australia, monsoon failures in India, Western Pacific horror cyclones etc) and only half - attributing fresh disasters to AGW (``... while we can not say that any single event is etc, nonetheless this latest event is consistent with models etc.»).

-- the Samanta et al paper, based on a three - month drought response, says not one word about long - term climate change scenarios reviewed in IPCC (but they advertise their analysis as «reject [ing] claims» put forward by the IPCC).

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.

That's why, in response to our three - day sexual drought, I'm very glad I did not say to my husband, «You're too self - involved to give me enough attention» (criticism) and «it disgusts me» (contempt) which «I'm sure you'll find a way to turn around on me» (defensiveness) so «I don't want to talk about it» (stonewalling).

As California enters a potential fifth year of drought, the swimming pool demolition industry — a niche, to be sure — is thriving, operators say, with new companies entering the business to profit from Californians» concerns about water scarcity.