Sentences with phrase «catastrophic drought»

The blue line represents averaged model results, which project that as CO2 rises we'll experience growing widespread catastrophic droughts in the 21st century.

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

Even the «spectre of catastrophic drought», which was, as a result of El Niño, supposed to be punishing the wretched sceptics, has evaporated as a depression of tropical origin has brought significant rain over much of Godzone, AND during a HOLIDAY period.

To the south, California has endured catastrophic drought.

Earth, damaged by excess carbon levels, is fraught with catastrophic drought and famine.

Increasing water scarcity over time and across regions, coupled with short - and long - term catastrophic droughts in certain locations, have contributed to increasing interest in water conservation in the various water - consuming sectors — urban, rural, agricultural, and environmental, Dinar explained.

As Clomid, egg donation and IVF have become household words for many, while others struggle to carry children to term, can many in the US still deny that the planet's ailing health affects us, even if we're not living amidst catastrophic droughts or floods?

Greenland cooled, Brazilian rainfall swelled, hurricane activity dropped, and the Sahel dried to the most catastrophic drought in more than a century.

They foresee a period characterised by what they politely called «recurring precipitation deficits»: in other words, sustained and potentially catastrophic drought.

The complex weather pattern is also responsible for catastrophic drought and wildfire throughout Indonesia, as well as one of the worst heat waves in recent history across India.

There are many reasons to address climate disruption, ranging from saving species to reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil to reducing the chance of catastrophic drought.

The history of time shows us that depopulation, social disruption, extinctions, disease and catastrophic droughts take place in cold times... and life blossoms and economies boom in warm times.

The sense at the meeting was that drastic emissions cuts are the best way to limit the catastrophic droughts and sea - level rises that global warming is expected to cause.

There was a catastrophic drought and a subsequent famine in 1877, and the question was why do such events take place?

That means that large - scale cutting of rain forests can result in catastrophic drought for hundreds of miles around.

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet in the midst of a catastrophic drought.

There was a catastrophic drought and a subsequent famine in 1877, and the question was why do such events take place?

We'll need to see the bigger picture of weather extremes, precisely the kind of events that can lead to catastrophic droughts and disastrous floods.

Thirty - five counties in California — currently enduring a catastrophic drought — were declared disaster areas after rain caused flooding and mudslides.

This year's catastrophic drought in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia is thought to be an indirect consequence of the 2010 - 2011 La Niña.

LONDON, 28 August, 2015 — One way or another, humans are to blame for the catastrophic drought in California that scientists say may be emerging as a «new normal».

The catastrophic droughts in Texas this summer and the resulting wildfires, propelled by climate change, have killed or damaged so much of the state's mistletoe crop that commercial operations selling the plant have shut down for the year, the New York Times reported.

He went on to write that the Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 could each be attributed to climate change, concluding that «The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small.