Sentences with phrase «as crop failure»

Changes in our climate may be as subtle as incremental increases in night temperatures in the summer, or as dramatic as crop failure due to flood or drought.

He said the economy could crumble under any major economic shock such as crop failure or sharp fall in commodity prices.

That's why I used the expression «represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment» (temperature increase by 2100 of up to 6.4 C, increased droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, extreme high sea level plus secondary effects, such as crop failures, spread of vector diseases, loss of drinking water from melting glaciers, etc. all as listed in IPCC AR4).

Not exact matches

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

That lack of stability — defined as the rotating crop of parent - like figures who transition in and out of kids» lives — is tied to school failure, behavior problems, drug use and loneliness.

At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

New England and Europe were particularly hard hit, with snowfalls as late as August and massive crop failures.

Frustrated by failure to agree a broad international deal to limit global warming, about 30 nations have joined the U.S. initiative to limit short - lived air pollutants as a new way to curb temperature rises, protect health and aid crop growth.

The chance of major global crop failures of this magnitude will increase with climate change, as drought, flooding, and heat waves strike fields more often.

Crop failure is further exacerbated by pesticide treatments which cause the death of insects such as bees through neonicotinoids.

My moisture farms shut down as a result of the dust, leading to a water shortage, which led to crop failure, which led to famine.

It's not mentioned specifically in Robert Olmstead's Savage Country, but his references to settlers driven off the land by crop failures, drought, and other factors might be seen as one of the adverse influences of 1862's Homestead Act, probably the most significant factor in the expansion of the United States across the continent.

In response to widespread crop failures in the Midwest, the United States Department of Agriculture began promoting purebred puppies as a fool - proof «cash» crop.

As you marvel at the site, where cliffs rise above two rivers shrouded in emerald green foliage, learn about the disastrous end of the colony — due to hurricanes, crop failure, disease and mutiny — as well as the indigenous Tainos enslaved to find golAs you marvel at the site, where cliffs rise above two rivers shrouded in emerald green foliage, learn about the disastrous end of the colony — due to hurricanes, crop failure, disease and mutiny — as well as the indigenous Tainos enslaved to find golas well as the indigenous Tainos enslaved to find golas the indigenous Tainos enslaved to find gold.

Impacts such as SLR and heat waves and crop failures and beetles killing forests and all the other dangerous Impacts and Positive Climate Feedbacks and Tipping Points....

The film takes us to Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru to hear the stories of four women as they struggle to care for their families, while enduring crop failures and water scarcity.

«We personally» are already having to adapt to drought - driven crop failures in the world's major wheat - exporting nations (Russia, China, Australia) and there is no reason to believe that a comparably devastating drought won't afflict North America as well, within the lifetimes of even the «real oldsters» reading this blog.

For example, there are those who repeatedly posit as absolute fact that the maize crop failures in 2009 were due to hybrid seeds.

As an example, they cite work indicating that failure of the rice crop in southern China due to heatwaves could change from a one - in - a-100-year event to a one - in - four - year event in 2100.

report looks at how slow - onset climate impacts, such as water stress, crop failure and sea level rise, could affect future population distribution.

«There is growing recognition among researchers that more people will move within national borders to escape the effects of slow - onset climate change, such as droughts, crop failure, and rising seas... Internal climate migration is a development issue.

But as climate change continues to heat up our planet, human communities and farms may need to adjust to long - term changes in conditions — and potential crop failure — should dryness continue to encroach into eastern lands, the study said.

However, the cold spells, especially at night, cause massive crop failure, and, as a result, even more famine.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

IMHO, applying stochastic methods on some specific grid points in the climate models that might have something «unusual», such as a random forest fire, forest clearance, crop failure, or a vast algal bloom, or overfishing going on, might be reasonable, but deteremining the boundary conditions for these to happen is another matter.

* CROP FAILURE wheat crop fail from intense late colds: http://www.agweb.com/article/concerns-mount-over-freeze-damage-to-winter-wheat-crops-naa-associated-press/ * 2016 Pakistans meteorological dept. issues a report predicting global cooling as a result of solar activCROP FAILURE wheat crop fail from intense late colds: http://www.agweb.com/article/concerns-mount-over-freeze-damage-to-winter-wheat-crops-naa-associated-press/ * 2016 Pakistans meteorological dept. issues a report predicting global cooling as a result of solar activcrop fail from intense late colds: http://www.agweb.com/article/concerns-mount-over-freeze-damage-to-winter-wheat-crops-naa-associated-press/ * 2016 Pakistans meteorological dept. issues a report predicting global cooling as a result of solar activity.

He discussed the escalating scale of impacts we could expect from unchecked climate change: from deaths and injuries from heat, to pollution, food - related illnesses, altered vectors for diseases such as malaria, crop failure and water shortages, mass migration, resource wars, economic collapse, and ecosystem collapse with mass extinctions.

Dr. Huber «wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready ® (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure» in January.

-- I have listed the «catastrophic results» that are projected to occur, according to IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM, pp. 8 and 13: temperature increase of up to 6.4 °C, heat waves, floods, droughts, increased intense tropical cyclones, extreme high sea level, as well as some of the secondary impacts, which IPCC projects in WG2, WG3: crop failures, disappearing glaciers now supplying drinking water for millions, spread of vector diseases, etc..

As the toll from global climate change becomes apparent for all to see − with whole populations displaced by rising seas, millions dying from famines due to crop failures attributable to climate change, and millions more struck down by diseases associated with a transformed climate − these 11 men and one woman will be accountable for Australia failing to play its part and for slowing down international efforts.

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.

As the cooler temperatures began to take over during the Roman period, catastrophic droughts took hold and crop failures led to starvation.

As had happened many times over the course of history, mass migrations occurred as cold led to crop failureAs had happened many times over the course of history, mass migrations occurred as cold led to crop failureas cold led to crop failures.

For more than a decade, EU countries led by Britain have set a rise of two degrees centigrade or less in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels as the benchmark after which the effects of climate become devastating, with crop failures, water shortages, sea - level rises, species extinctions and increased disease.

Pile that on top of the damage done by the extreme weather damage done throughout US summer, as in crop failures wildfires etc..

Business and pollution as usual offers half - measures and promises action just in time, if we are lucky, before the planet warms sufficiently to cause massive crop failure as industrial civilization collapses amidst flood, drought, famine, war, mass migration of the desperate, epidemics.

Crop failure could give clues as to growing degree days or the arrival of extraordinary cold fronts.

I forgot to mention that on the «science denial kills» question, while others have already pointed out how laughably bogus the «Global Warming is killing people» claim is, we might also mention that when the globe cools, (and when people don't have access to low cost energy for warmth), the associated crop failures, disease, starvation, and cold related deaths, number in the millions annually as history has amply demonstrated.

One of the sectors most affected by climate change is agriculture, as increasing temperatures may lead to crop failure.

With buyers for Asia's immense new middle class already starting to outbid EU food importers, the start of recurring global crop failures — when there are few surplus stocks being traded — will impact the UK particularly hard, as it has an exceptionally high population per hectare of its farmland.

The income provides a buffer against crop failures or other economic crises, as well as money for household expenses, health care or school fees.

Citing «this years» Russian crop failure based on a short term «heat wave» (which is precisely what it was) as an example of «climate change» — is just nonsense.

Keep up the good work, I for one am sleeping better knowing you're debunking those climate change nutters, who, as far as I'm concerned, are probably just basing their conclusions on irrelevant things like record summer temperatures, melting ice - caps, rising sea levels, weather chaos, increasing crop failures, species extinction, ocean acidification... blah, blah, blah.

From the standpoint of extreme variability, just looking back at historical records of droughts, crop failures and famines, these seem to confirm that these events were at least as frequent in the past as today (if not more frequent).

Investigations out of EIA's U.S. office have also come across RSPO failures as part of research to understand the roots and financing of new, illegal deforestation for oil palm and other agro-commodity crops in the Peruvian Amazon.

Super volcano Laki in Iceland to again resume it's activity of 1783 / 1784 with consequent crop failures across the whole of the northern hemisphere and mass starvation of a fair proportion of the global population as a consequence.

I'd much rather that you ask «can you point me to a sharply falsifiable prediction of IPCC which has those crop failures as a consequence?

Once the Arctic summer sea ice disappears (which could happen as early as 2013), agriculture in the northern hemisphere will lose its «air conditioning» and we (but especially our children) will start facing crop failures and famines.

Sea level rise, crop failures, freak weather, the inability to afford asphalt... none of those scenarios have anything to do with whether we like things just as they are.

The 50 % crop failure «meme», as they do, «went viral» in early 2007.