Sentences with phrase «around about the drought»

BTW - Since you are a «believer» what is the prevailing notion going around about the drought in Texas, btw...

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They found evidence of a 650 - year period of frequent droughts that extended from around A.D. 500 to about A.D. 1150.

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).

And, on the heels of a recent report about the global droughts to be expected due to climate change — one can only wonder if such scenes will become more common elsewhere.Throughout the affected state of Amazonia, rivers provide the only means of access to the outside world for families residing in the regions around the capital of Manaus.

All around the globe, at about 32 - 34 degrees north or south of the equator, there is drought trouble: Perth, Cape Town, the Mediterranean.

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

Those dangers are now being dramatically demonstrated around the globe: drought in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, which has forced the government there to issue a state of emergency warning; France observed its warmest winter since records began; while the sea ice that has formed in the Arctic this winter is about a million square kilometres less than its average for this time of year.

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.

I do not claim to know much about California but it was obvious from reading the annual US weather reviews for the years around the 1880 to 1900 period that drought was a recurring problem.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

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).