Sentences with phrase «desertification of»

Scientists say the desertification of the mountain grasslands is accelerating climate change.

If this happens, it will be like the arrival of the Messiah, to lead the charge to end global warming which is leading us all to desertification of our home, Planet Earth which will lead to fighting over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabitable.

Rain on Olympic Snow, snow in Florida, food prices, desertification of various places, fires, etc..

Widespread desertification of the rainforest would likely spread drought into the northern hemisphere; the Amazon contains 90 billion tons of CO2, enough to accelerate global warming by 50 percent, spinning it out of control and eventually making the world uninhabitable.

The desertification of the Sahara has long been a target for scientists trying to understand climate and ecological tipping points.

Catastrophes such as flooding, drought, spread of disease, desertification of previously fertile areas are being predicted as a consequence.

At 3C, I think those kinds of failures (Russia, Australia, Pakistan) will be the rule thanks to desertification of the sub-tropics and the greater variability of rainfall patterns.

Clearly human activities can affect climates — we all grew up learning that the desertification of much of North Africa was due to goats, and we know that some local climates are determined by human activities in the region — but human activity is unlikely to have caused the Viking period warming, the great cooling after 1300, the Little Ice Age, and such; and the warming beginning in 1800 or so is very unlikely to have been caused by human activities.

Worse yet, on our present trajectory, it seems highly unlikely that the warming process will stop at 2 or even 3 degrees Celsius, meaning that later in this century many of the worst - case climate - change scenarios — the inundation of coastal cities, the desertification of vast interior regions, and the collapse of rain - fed agriculture in many areas — will become everyday reality.

5.3.5 In Latin America, warming and associated drier soils are projected to lead to a gradual replacement of tropical forest by savanna, and to salinization and desertification of agricultural lands.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

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I believe the certification of North Africa dating back to the Roman Empire and desertification of the North American continent in recent times are significant contributors to global warming.

Even the one - third desertification of the planet by 2100 scenario by the UK's Hadley Center is only based on 850 ppm (in 2100).

The impact is the melting of the glaciers and the concomitant rising of sea levels that could sink swaths of low land areas in the near future, followed by the desertification of countries vulnerable to destructive climate change reactions.

I stepped into the highlands of Namibia and saw the desertification of the place, the arid environment reminding man of the loss of water in places once considered the source of water, and a looming submerging of the coastal areas in the event of a large scale heating of the outer planet leading to the accelerated melting of the ice caps.

Unfortunately, this expansion of the winter area will be accompanied by a drastic reduction of suitable summer climate space: with the projected desertification of the Interior West, only 13 % of the current summer area will be suitable by 2080.

In addition, there is ~ 1.1 + / - 0.8 PgC / yr NET EMISSIONS from land use change, largely from agriculture, deforestation and / or desertification of land that has had all or part of the vegetation killed.

The possible biological effects of this temperature increase are staggering, such as the loss of millions of species and desertification of land (which will reduce the ability of this planet to feed the species, including other humans, which call it home).

Assuming the source was all the desertification of the Sahara (a very brave leap of faith given the HN cooling over the period), that would make the total desertification of the Sahara, a plot of land of not inconsiderable size, worth 14 years of our emissions.

Global warming as an enhancer of natural phenomenon is the basis of concern for many phenomenon including desertification of land and sea masses.

Cactoceae is a series of photos of cacti that serve as a critique of global warming and the result from the desertification of brazilian landscape.

In 2006, researchers used radiocarbon - dated material from 150 archaeological sites in the eastern Sahara to map a change in settlement patterns that coincided with increased desertification of the region.

The desertification of the Sahara has long been a target for scientists trying to understand climate and ecological tipping points.

Desertification of the environment happened long before renewables when timber was / is fuel.

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed early - warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate change that do not account for the complexity of nature.

In a provocative appearance on the video blog Ted Talks, biologist Allan Savory said desertification of the world's grasslands may be releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than burning fossil fuels.

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This would help us to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, like dying oceans and widespread desertification, which will harm people around the world, especially the poor.

Because of the links between drought, land degradation, desertification and climate change, withdrawal from the Desertification Convention comes with potentially sigdesertification and climate change, withdrawal from the Desertification Convention comes with potentially sigDesertification Convention comes with potentially significant costs.

Taylor also claims that human - induced warming has caused rising sea levels and desertification, hence «climate change refugees» which is an issue of human rights.

There are risks related to ecological catastrophes (the desertification, the depletion of the Ozone layer, the deforestation, the Greenhouse effect).

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

Furthermore, Organic Agriculture has a unique ability to reverse processes of soil degredation and desertification and help safeguard the world's production potential.

The promotion of organic agriculture through education and training, in countries suffering desertification, could be a key to bringing degraded land back into production.

Organic matter content is usually higher in organically - managed soils, indicating higher fertility and stability of organic soils as well as moisture retention capacity, which reduce the risk of erosion and desertification.

With intensive agriculture linked to deforestation and desertification, as well a general loss of genetic biodiversity, how can declines in ecosystem be reversed and biodiversity encouraged?

In regions with continental climate, soils are subject to desiccation, meaning climate change will aggravate problems of salinity, erosion, and desertification.

When you choose to cloth diaper your baby, whether you are able to do it here and there, half of the time or full time, it reduces deforestation, desertification, and our landfills.

We know that desertification has necessitated more movement of cows for grazing towards the south, but we need to have a way of balancing the two.

The then Agriculture Minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina said Fulani herdsmen were facing a lot of pressure with the increase in population and desertification, adding that the increase in criminality had made livestock production a risky business.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata representing Birniwa / Guri / Kiri - Kasamma federal constituency of Jigawa State has explained that the environmental challenges of desertification, flooding and typher grass which has been threatening the State in the last sixteen years was receiving federal government's attention for the first time.

Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata representing Birniwa / Guri / Kiri - Kasamma federal constituency of Jigawa State has explained that the environmental challenges of desertification, flooding and typher grass which has...

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

We wish to conclude by urging government to, as a matter of urgency stop all these companies from further logging of the rosewood trees in northern Ghana that is already grabbling with desertification and other climate change impacts.

The broad objectives of the council include developing sustainable solutions to farmers - herdsmen clashes, climate change, desertification and their impact on farmlands and grazing areas as well as lakes, rivers and other water bodies.

Monitoring and assessment have so far focused mainly on the symptoms of land degradation and desertification, such as loss of top soil and decreased food production.

Next week, a meeting of UN member states in New York will begin to set out the steps needed to close that science gap and boost international efforts to tackle desertification.

«Desertification can occur anywhere except in a desert,» says Uriel Safriel, a desert ecologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary, UN Convention to Combat Desertification: «As Oscar Wilde put is once «people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.»