Sentences with phrase «decreased rainfall»

When viewed alongside the threat of drought to agriculture due to decreased rainfall over land, this does not make for a pretty picture.

They also wanted to gauge whether decreasing rainfall has contributed to the catastrophic water loss.

The reality is that the IPCC have largely ignored the papers on the model results of decreasing rainfall in the east of the Amazon, and the diverse evidence used to assess the sensitivity of these forests to such rainfall reductions.

Useful insights (heads up) into the Current Impacts of decreasing rainfall known to be caused by AGW / CC and Drinking Water in a warming sometimes drier world.

Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.

A Human Influence On Precipitation «Has Yet To Be Detected» «Climate model output suggests decreasing rainfall as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas radiative forcing.»

Increased use of the Yangtze's water for agriculture or industry — it's estimated to hit 30 percent by 2030, up from 17.8 % today — will come alongside decreasing rainfall due to the effects of climate change.

That's an increase from 17.8 % today, in an area likely to see decreasing rainfall in the coming years do to the effects of climate change on precipitation patterns.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences links this deforestation across Southeast Asia with changes in the Asian Monsoon, including significantly decreased rainfall.

Decreasing rainfall in the region has been widely reported, and the researchers wanted to quantify its role in the water loss.

Hydro power has decreased during recent years because of decreasing rainfall, wind power is increasing as wind farms continue to be built.

In the southern parts of the country, decreasing rainfall and more heat waves and droughts are already affecting farmers.

The decreasing rainfall (shown in the top graph below) combined with rising temperatures (second graph) resulted in a decline in soil moisture (third graph), the researchers say.

Australia is already the driest inhabited continent on Earth2 — and scientists expect it to become drier.3 With rising temperatures, decreasing rainfall and inflow, and declining soil moisture comes greater risk of drought.3, 4

An increase in extreme weather such as droughts, storms, flooding and decreasing rainfalls is already having an impact upon agriculture worldwide.

This is because global warming will decrease rainfall in some areas but serendipitously increase it in other, but more populated, areas.