Sentences with phrase «concern about drought»

Advocates of global warming, aware of concern about drought, predict increasing extent, frequency and duration.

All of us who work on water issues and are concerned about the drought and water scarcity must come together on this critical piece of legislation and ensure a brighter future for California and the world.

«Extreme» in their usage is defined in terms of precipitation and can include either wet extremes or dry extremes (just as IPCC expresses concern about droughts and floods.)

Not exact matches

One concern I now have about chocolate sustainability is scientists and the Mars chocolate company are trying «save» chocolate by modifying it so it will be more resistant to drought and pests.

Geoff is also concerned about the availability of water throughout Australia, especially the Murray - Darling Basin, which after years of drought is in a dire condition.»

The report comes amid mounting concerns about water supplies in the south - east following two dry winters, with hosepipe bans in force and a drought order already implemented by one water firm.

To date, concerns about climate change's impact on agriculture have focused on drought — another likely outcome of warming world.

«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.

1974 Serious droughts since 1972 increase concern about climate; cooling from aerosols is suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of a new ice age.

Public opinion polls indicate that concern about global warming has been going down, even as the evidence (giant forest fires, drought, floods, record setting hot days etc) becomes so ironclad that it's almost a joke.

Furthermore during the research process for the documentary I repeatedly raised my concerns about linking the indirect effect and the Sahel drought without mentioning the study by Giannini et al (Science, 2004).

Concerning the «debate» highlighted by the above exchanges between Pielke and Holdren, the issue isnt about analogues to past droughts (which, by the way, the California resource managers were more interested in), but about the scientific evidence that California droughts have become more severe due to climate change.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

As droughts have worsened, water bottling companies like Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, andNestlé are finding themselves under the microscope of public opinion for taking public water resources, packaging them for substantial profit, and then failing to adequately respond to public concerns about their local impacts, lack of transparency of data sharing, and their role in helping share the burdens imposed by water shortages and drought.

Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.

Serious droughts and other unusual weather since 1972 increase scientific and public concern about climate change, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of ice age.

In considering next steps, I think it's important to acknowledge that it is the consequences of climate change we are concerned about; ocean acidification, sea level rise, drought, wildfires, health, crop losses, etc..

It also raises concerns about the loss of water flow into the Colorado River, and about extreme summer heat, wildfires and droughts.

While drought (median of 41 %) is still the predominant climate change - related concern in the Asia - Pacific region, worry about severe weather (median of 34 %) follows close behind.

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.

Sub-Saharan Africans voice similar levels of worry about drought — 59 % cite it as the most concerning potential effect of global climate change.

el, luke did a good job taking on the faux concern of the weirdos at Deltoid and pointing out that there are real, disastrous consequences to AGW «remedies», unlike the imaginary consequences of AGW; in fact when luke goes to town he can even quell, or at least bemuse, even the most elitist of the AGW acolytes; for instance there was a thread at Taminos a couple of years ago when luke got going and absolutely paper - snowed them with masses of detail about the expanding drought conditions facing Australia under the yoke of AGW; unfortunately I have lost the link but I'm sure luke will oblige us.

Other stakeholders have concerns about food, water and energy resources, agriculture, ecology, droughts and floods, etc..

The team was particularly concerned about the findings for dramatic increases in drought in southern Europe.

1974 Serious droughts since 1972 increase concern about climate, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; scientists doubt all theories as journalists talk of a new ice age.

In a time when we're struggling to figure out how we're going to feed everyone in the face of a changing climate, severe droughts, and increasingly scarce freshwater resources, the news that we currently waste about a third of all the food produced in the US should be cause for serious concern.

Based on survey data gathered between 2008 and 2014, people living in the central US tended to be less worried about global warming than the national average, while residents of drought - stricken California showed noticeably more concern.

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.