Sentences with phrase «as crops failed»

Norse colonies which had settled in a formerly warmer Greenland starved and vanished by the early fifteenth century as crops failed and livestock froze.

Even if «catastrophic» AGW is correct and we do warm another 3 C over the next century, if it stabilized the Earth in warm phase and prevented or delayed the Earth's transition into cold phase it would be worth it because the cold phase transition would kill billions of people, quite rapidly, as crops failed throughout the temperate breadbasket of the world.

The Pilgrims» plight proceeds to deteriorate further as crops fail, livestock produce blood instead of milk, and Caleb inexplicably falls ill and slips into a catatonic state.

Not exact matches

If the test result is over 0.3 % THC by weight, then that sample has failed (also referred to as «hot») and the farmer is legally required to destroy the crop.

If the potato crop fails, he does not regard it as an intervention by God to demonstrate His judgment — a judgment which must be accepted in humility and responded to with penitence and fasting.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

The soil health slowly improved and the following summer I increased my crop to include more tomato plants, zucchini, kale, lettuce and spring onion, as well as another failed attempt at eggplant.

In interviews with The Age, the supermarkets said they came to rely more heavily on imports when local crops, such as tomatoes and pineapples, failed during the drought and floods.

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

But in famine conditions, such as when crops fail, they are likely to have eaten all the fermented milk foods, leaving only the more high - lactose products.

They discovered that stem cells were gradually disappearing as the mice turned gray; in their place, melanocytes cropped up, but failed to migrate down, where they are supposed to do the coloring.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

Indeed, one such episode known as the Maunder minimum may have triggered the Little Ice Age from 1645 to 1715 CE, when crops failed in Northern Europe and London's Thames River stayed frozen in June.

The designer vintage in question is this faux fur Jean Paul Gaultier cropped jacket, which fits like a glove and isn't as bulky as similar jackets I have tried and failed to pull off, which do not suit my relatively scrawny frame.

Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately - animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit.

When their crops fail to grow and their infant child disappears, family members turn on each other as superstition takes hold.

Dwayne Johnson is making his starring debut, Steven Brand (as Memnon) comes straight from a crop of failed TV shows, director Chuck Russell is just coming off of one of the worst movies in 2000 (Bless the Child), and a script that had been rewritten numerous times by hacks that haven't made very much in terms of great screenplays.

The industry won't be able to develop the new crop of authors as long as it holds onto dead weight - books that failed to meet sales expectaitons.

After failing to gain much traction, thoughts of RIM exiting the tablet market are starting to crop up, definitely not a good sign for a company that is already widely regarded as behind the times in its once thriving smartphone lineup.

To take one highly topical example, over the last 18 months, Carillion (the failed facilities management and construction services company) kept on cropping up as one of the cheapest companies in the UK — and kept on falling foul of our checklist.

Monsanto failed to tell them that the crop was very susceptible to bollworms, a virulent parasite, and the GM cotton required twice the amount of water as traditional crops.

What will be the impact of desertification on sea life, the displaced refugee's as seas rise, failing crops from drought.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Going further back, you can also use accounts of where cold - sensitive crops were grown (e.g., vineyards in medieval England), and of subsistence farms being established and then failing in marginal areas, such as the south of Greenland.

As the forests burn, and the crops fail, the dangerous buildup of greenhouse gases will continue to fuel the planet towards record heating, catastrophic sea level rise, and mass methane release.

Then there is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which tried to pass off as peer - reviewed and true work by radical environmental groups falsely claiming Himalayan glaciers were rapidly disappearing and crops were failing.

* 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.

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.

The international response to the problem has failed to grasp that serious consequences such as reduced crop yields and water shortages are now inevitable, he said.

As what the world has experienced countless times in history, when the climate cools and crops start to fail, people (and armies) start to move... and that can't be good: — RRB -.

Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.

Similarly, according to the Independent People's Tribunal of the World Bank Group in India, the role of the World Bank in reducing state subsidies, reduced access to low interest loans for the poor and the «opening up of the Indian economy to an uneven playing field in international trade in agricultural commodities» resulted in the dramatic phenomenon of India's infamous farmer suicides, with an estimated 137,000 farmers killing themselves due to their inability to pay off their loans once their crops failed (for more information, see here and this interview with Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva as well).

I don't know — but it seems that the advocates of consensus climate change define things to make humans look as bad as possible and fail to take into consideration the positive results of increased warmth, the enhanced crop growth, the lower cost to heat a home during winter, the increased CO2 sinks which are absorbing 1/2 of our emissions and so on.

They particularly fail for the poor, whose limited market resources leave them vulnerable to the whims of the wealthy (as for example, in the great Irish potato famine in which thousands starved to death while abundant Irish wheat crops were sold to England for English bread).

Drought and heavy rainfall events can make drinking water vulnerable to contamination and can ruin agriculture, leading to increases in incidents of water - borne infections and diseases like cholera, as well as malnutrition and hunger when damaged farms fail to provide enough crops for the people who rely on them.

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They are closer to the people who are severely impacted by climate change and are working with those vulnerable to its effects to create innovative solutions when their crops and livestock fail as a result of drought, hurricanes or sea level rise.