Sentences with phrase «dry regions become»

At the same time, the global water cycle is intensifying due to climate change, with wetter regions generally becoming wetter and drier regions becoming even drier.

Not exact matches

At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collapsing.

The company has sold its vineyards in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney where the world - famous Lindemans brand originated, citing its concern that the region will become «hot and dry and expensive.»

And climate models predict wet regions will become wetter and dry regions drier, which means more rain for all of the UK, not just the coasts.

The more water is extracted from underground, the harder it becomes to restore the region's rivers and reservoirs — some of which no longer flow through the summer — simultaneously sucking them dry from above and below.

Nathalie Pettorelli at the Institute of Zoology in London says herbivores in dry regions, such as the Arabian oryx, have a limited range of plants to choose from, so if one becomes too toxic they may have little else to eat.

In a world that's four degrees warmer, many agricultural regions could dry out, become too hot, or both.

The projected impacts of a warming atmosphere and oceans on the Earth's hydrological cycle — dry regions likely becoming drier, while wet ones become more wet — will likely exacerbate this already dire situation.

One species of Amazon peccary has become rare in the region, and turtle eggs, a dry - season staple, were in short supply in 2014 due to earlier flooding.

Some regions which should have become wetter according to the simple DDWW formula have actually become drier in the past — this includes parts of the Amazon, Central America, tropical Africa and Asia.

The resulting mapped index showed drier regions in the East Cascades and Blue Mountains becoming more vulnerable to mortality under recent climate conditions.

Along with the nicer weather, the region opens up to visitors during the dry season in the Kimberley, where roads become passable again and the rivers and waterfalls have less water to enable swimming.

The North Shore is lush, the West Side, dry and rugged, the Eastern Shore family - friendly, and the South Side is becoming the most developed region of Kauai, home to many of the island's resort complexes and golf courses.

Equatorial convective regions have intensified in upward motion and moistened, while both the equatorial and subtropical subsidence regions have become drier and less cloudy.

The best available science indicates that the arid and semi-arid regions of the world will become even more so: the dry areas of the world will become drier (while conversely, the wet areas will become wetter).

Since the mid-1970s the two patterns appear to have become disconnected at times with the Bermuda High retrograding and sitting off the coast of the Savannah / Charleston region at times, resulting in an increasing occurrence of a dry, high temperature wind coming out of the SW.

Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

Smith paints a picture of wet regions of the globe getting wetter, parched regions becoming drier, and increasingly erratic and dangerous weather events.

The effects of human - induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat - loving insects.

I hope that Californians are taking in the lesson that most of their lives and economies are occurring in pretty dry regions that regularly become extremely dry.

16 * Melting Glaciers and Rising Sea Levels Over the last century glaciers have been melting worldwide Antarctica ice sheet temp has risen 6 degrees As ice sheets and glaciers melt, sea level rises * Regional Temp Changes Changes in regional climate * Drought and Desertification Rising temps causes regions to warm and become very dry.

So, a region experiencing increased drought from climate change might become even drier through a solar engineering scheme.

As a response [and as consequence of an increase in the general circulation] on average dry regions would get drier, and wet regions would become wetter.

The same warming at the lowest latitudes could be devastating: in some tropical regions, conditions could become too hot and dry for any growth.

Certain regions, including the western U.S. (especially the Southwest4) and the Mediterranean, are presently dry and are expected to become drier.

We find that the reported discrepancy can be traced to two main issues: (1) unforced internal climate variability strongly affects local wetness and dryness trends and can obscure underlying agreement with WWDD, and (2) dry land regions are not constrained to become drier by enhanced moisture divergence since evaporation can not exceed precipitation over multiannual time scales.

Global precipitation will increase, and the heaviest precipitation events are intensifying [1], but with regional differences: Wet regions such as the tropical rainforests will become rainier while semi-arid regions of the subtropics expand and become drier.

Wet regions will become rainier while arid and semi-arid regions expand and become drier.

«The Amazon is predicted to become substantially drier as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, and this is the main reason for the increased temperature variability predicted for that region.

This outcome is consistent with projections that, with climate change, wet regions will become wetter and dry regions will become drier.7 The intensity, duration, and frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes have increased, although causality remains uncertain.

An unusually dry summer, which climate scientists say is likely to become a more common occurrence in the region.

Dust storms will become more common in the Southwest region of the United States of America as drier conditions caused by climate change kill off plant cover, raising a dust bowl specter say government scientists.

Tol said farmers, for example, could grow new crops if the climate in their region became hotter, wetter or drier.

We talk a lot about how climate change is likely to make dry areas (especially those in sub-tropical zones) even drier in coming years, while those wet areas in the sub-polar and equatorial regions are likely to become even wetter.

During the northern hemisphere's summer, dry areas are likely to become drier and wet areas would be wetter; in the winter, regions of relatively heavy rainfall would expand northward.

If global warming continues unabated, the region likely will become even hotter and drier, and the consequences for its forests will be even more severe.

Another way it is often explained, wet regions are likely to become wetter, dry regions drier.

This means that regions including the North American Southwest and the Mediterranean are projected to become drier.