Sentences with phrase «drought years if»

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

Not exact matches

If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

If soils remain wet through cluster elongation periods we could see generally large, tight clusters and the possibility of higher summer rot incidence than the past several years of drought have presented.

If Arsenal had not managed to break our scoring drought and bag all three points away to Bournemouth today, it could well have been seen as the end of our own challenge, but as it happens the pressure and expectation that the Gunners have been feeling since going two points clear at the start of the year could now be switched to the shoulders of the Leicester players and manager.

Whether Wenger decides to pull the trigger on a player whose price tag may now be at its most affordable in years could very well determine if Arsenal manage to make noise in the Champions League (or the Europa League), or decides if the club finally ends its Premier League title drought:

Despite not starting a Grand Slam event since he missed the cut at the 2015 PGA Championship (with MCs at that year's British and U.S. Opens after a T17 at the Masters), one bookmaker has Woods at 5 - 1 to break his majors drought on the 10th anniversary (if not before) of his last major victory: the 2008 U.S. Open.

Again I bring up that I'm not mad at Thibs for signing Jamal and Rose, I think it's virtually impossible to scout players you don't know if all your free time is going towards coaching a team out of a 14 year playoff drought.

If not, well I would still applaud him for what he accomplished during the years financial drought (top 4 finish with shoe string budget).

Please do nt suggest that wenger will prove us wrong by winning the fa cup because thats a trophy thats been long over due for the damage of the last nine year drought, if man city was still in it woudnt an advantage arsenal, in wenger we rust!

Suddenly the 16 - year - old drought and the three lost finals in four years started to make their presence felt, like a ghost, you could feel it even if you couldn't see it.

If one reads the title of this piece, it would not be too far fetched to assume that readers might think they have entered an Arsenal / Chelsea fans blog site by accident, as this is a topic which has been a bug bear for Arsenal fans during their trophy drought ridden years.

«As Christians we should keep praying, even pastors have been saying that we should pray hard otherwise the drought this year will be severe but I don't want it to look as if we don't know what we are doing at the ministry,» he said.

«So it's going to take up to 20 years to implement a sustainable groundwater management plan,» she said, «and if you are overdrafting today and you are in the middle of a severe drought, of course it doesn't seem like this is fast enough, but it is complicated.»

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

It probably doomed Mayan civilization with a 150 - year drought that began in the eighth century A.D., and it may yet drown our own if it continues to heat up.

In hydrological data, there are series of 20 or 30 years, when we would need 100 years or more to see if there is a cycle of flooding and drought.»

Still, it's a fragile balance — one that could be upended all too easily: «If an epidemic, or a sustained drought, were to decimate the ungulate population for a year or so, it could have very serious consequences for the snow leopards of Tost.

El Niño will create a mixed bag in terms of precipitation too, with increased odds that Southern California will see more precipitation this year — though it's too early to know if that will come in the form of snow — while the Pacific Northwest is likely to be drier and could see its drought deepen.

He believes that if climate change causes more drought years in Tanzania, the result will be more elderly women executed there and in other poor countries that still commonly attack supposed witches.

I'll be delighted if he does, but I've questioned whether a French production can win two years running, after a two - decade drought to boot.

Do you realize that even if one model has all of the essential physics, very precise and accurate forcings, an exact or even close match of the actual climate trajectory (when El Ninos occur, when cool years occur in China, when droughts in the southwest USA occur, etc) is not going to happen?

The following three short pieces will not make a convincing scientific argument that Southern Australia's drought is being driven by a warming planet but municipal governments are facing the grim reality their water supplies could run out by the end of next year if significant rainfall does not occur.

Not if it saves 10 trillion dollars in property damage, 100,000 lives a year due to drought - induced famine, increased frequency and intensity of severe weather events, or other related incidents.

If the climate goes back to what it has been for thousands of years that will be fine, but if it continues to become uninhabitable in the South of this country, and prolonged severe and exceptional drought will do just that, we must plan for the futurIf the climate goes back to what it has been for thousands of years that will be fine, but if it continues to become uninhabitable in the South of this country, and prolonged severe and exceptional drought will do just that, we must plan for the futurif it continues to become uninhabitable in the South of this country, and prolonged severe and exceptional drought will do just that, we must plan for the future.

A lot of what the report covers is familiar, if grim, to people who haven't had their fingers in their ears for the past few years; ocean levels are rising, the water in those oceans is becoming more acidic, weather patterns are changing, we can expect more torrential rains in some locations and drought in others, and on and on.

If the scorching weather persists into August, the odds of a «flash drought» in the nation's heartland will rise sharply (along with the odds that the U.S. will notch its hottest summer on record, in line with what's very likely to be Earth's warmest year on record).

It wouldn't shock me if Dan H counters with the argument that the PDSI has trended upwards towards zero in the last few years, ergo less drought.

For if 4 - years dry and 1 - year wet is the typical cycle, then a drought would have to be longer than 4 years (presumably california water agencies were storing 4 years of water to withstand the 4 dry years.

A few scientific studies might also deserve due diligence if Denizens are into denying the worse Californian drought in 1,200 years.

IF the case for global warming is so open and shut, why the need for a report as disingenuous as Mr Kofi Annan's... warning that climate change - induced disasters, such as droughts and floods, kill 315,000 each year and cost $ 125 billion, numbers it says will rise to 500,000 dead and $ 340 billion by 2030.

Now that researchers are illuminating the mechanisms of drought damage, Anderegg believes these legacy effects could be incorporated into climate models within a year or two — an important step if climate models are to truly capture the effect of drought on the carbon cycle.

«If you look at the weather records, the worst flooding and the worst drought we've had since weather stations were established have been in the last 10 years.»

If after five years of filtered sunlight a disaster occurred — a drought in India and Pakistan, for example, a possible effect in one of the modeling studies — we would not know whether it was caused by global warming, the solar filter or natural variability.

But dry years were twice as likely to trigger a severe drought if they occurred during warm years instead of cold years, according to the study, published today (March 2) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Again, the 10th consecutive year of drought in Australia, even if not caused by AGW, is one example and that is rich country, which can cope.

«Even if there is no change in precipitation, all years will be a drought risk.»

(02/27/2008) More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years.

If emissions continue unabated, the world is on track to exceed this budget in only about 30 years — exposing communities to increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought, and other climate impacts.

It is about convincing (and pacifying) the population that the years of drought (also engineered) are over, as if the dead and dying forests will somehow magically recover.

It covered the record May rains in the West, which marginally improved the situation resulting from several years of record drought in the West, and laid out the cuts that would go into effect if the water level were to fall another six inches.

If La Nina forms again, the drought could enter its second year, he said.

Ben Cook: Our results suggest that after 2050, if we continue on our current course of greenhouse gas emission, the likelihood of Western North America experiencing what we call a megadrought — a drought that lasts 35 years or longer — is very likely above 80 percent.

Around 41,000 square miles of forest with 888 million trees had measurable losses of canopy water in the last four years, and if the drought continues, 58 million of the worst - affected trees will likely die, they note.

Lastly, I do not know if the issue has been studied, I would expect increased human activity in the sequoia belt in a major 500 year drought.

«If droughts continue to occur at 5 — 10 - year frequency, or increase in frequency, large areas of Amazonian forest canopy likely will be exposed to the persistent effect of droughts and the slow recovery of forest canopy structure and function,» wrote researchers in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2012.

Our analyses show that California has historically been more likely to experience drought if precipitation deficits co-occur with warm conditions and that such confluences have increased in recent decades, leading to increases in the fraction of low - precipitation years that yield drought.

Abby Halperin, Myles Allen and Friederike Otto explain how serious the ongoing drought is in California, which has experienced four years of drought already, and how this experiment will help determine what effect, if any, climate change has had on how likely this drought is.

And people in drought - stricken California could be forgiven if they're crossing their fingers for a strong El Niño, which is linked to some of the wettest years in state history.

If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail - spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.»