Sentences with phrase «even changes in rainfall»

In fact, temperature change offered a better prediction of impending conflict in the 40 countries surveyed than even changes in rainfall, despite the fact that agriculture in this region is largely dependent on such precipitation.

Not exact matches

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

According to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the wind speed and rainfall rates in tropical cyclones are projected to increase during the 21st century, even while the total number of tropical cyclones remains nearly steady, or even decreases.

Then some climate modelers even have the audacity to publish regional «projections» saying that the Colorado River will dry up in 50 - 100 years, or the rainfall and temperature somewhere else will change this way or that.

But even without the forest fires, the fact that the rainfall in decreased would change NPP (net primary production), and the ratio of NPP to GPP (gross primary production).

Thus, paleodata in which strong variation in monsoon rainfall have been recorded can not be explained by the bistable regime because these recordings show monsoon changes over several years, decades, or even centuries.

Even if rainfall amounts don't change in the future, drought and wildfire severity likely will because warmer temperatures are more efficient at evaporating what little moisture does fall.

Namely that global agricultural irrigation is on the edge of sustainability in many regions, including areas of the US, and that even a slight change in rainfall patterns across the temperate mid-latitudes would have extremely serious consequences?

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

Even while identifying some of the observed change in climatic behaviour, such as a 0.4 C increase in surface temperature over the past century, or about 1 mm per year sea level rise in Northern Indian Ocean, or wider variation in rainfall patterns, the document notes that no firm link between the do...

Even modest changes in seasonality of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.

One is that, as regional climates change in response to ever - increasing combustion of fossil fuels, which then intensify the greenhouse gas ratios in the global atmosphere, cities in now - arid regions will suffer ever more severe heatwaves, even though their rural hinterlands may enjoy higher rainfall.

BBD If a book is written that uses models to forecast future conditions in the UK, but those same models have been demonstrated to not be able to even reasonably accurately predict future rainfall at any specific location, what good is the analysis in the book that describes different conditions based on changes in rainfall?

The Agriculture Department will have to deal with droughts and changing rainfall patterns, but its employees have been barred from even discussing the problem openly, as leadership has instructed them to use «weather extremes» instead of «climate change» in reports.

Trees can record centuries of history in their rings — changes in rainfall and temperatures, even evidence of fires sweeping through a region or the climatic impacts of volcanic eruptions.

In concert with the results for increased extremes of intense precipitation, even if the wind strength of storms in a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensitIn concert with the results for increased extremes of intense precipitation, even if the wind strength of storms in a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensitin a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensitin extreme rainfall intensity.

Researchers predict a fourfold increase in northern wildfires because of warming and changes in rainfall, extending even to areas above the treeline.

Even without the new factor of a changing climate, it is time to acknowledge that California is in permanent long - term shortage: even in a «normal» rainfall year more water is now demanded and used than nature provides, leading to growing political conflict, unsustainable groundwater overdraft, and ecological destruction of the state's rivers, streams, and wetlaEven without the new factor of a changing climate, it is time to acknowledge that California is in permanent long - term shortage: even in a «normal» rainfall year more water is now demanded and used than nature provides, leading to growing political conflict, unsustainable groundwater overdraft, and ecological destruction of the state's rivers, streams, and wetlaeven in a «normal» rainfall year more water is now demanded and used than nature provides, leading to growing political conflict, unsustainable groundwater overdraft, and ecological destruction of the state's rivers, streams, and wetlands.

The coal plants you think that you can replace may be in marginal areas now, replacing them with a nuclear plant with greater cooling requirements may just lead to more shutdowns even if there is sufficient cooling water as climate change changes rainfall patterns.

In the past 60 years temperatures have risen, rainfall patterns have changed and soils have begun to dry out even further.

«Some have suggested cyclic changes in the overturning may be warming and cooling the whole North Atlantic over the course of several decades and affecting rainfall patterns across the US and Africa, and even the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic.»

In our new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challengeIn our new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challengein Nature Climate Change, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challChange, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challchange in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challengein regional rainfall, even in the face of such challengein the face of such challenges.

In our study, we discuss how new ways of identifying changes in regional rainfall are beginning to show some success, even in the presence of imperfect models and measurementIn our study, we discuss how new ways of identifying changes in regional rainfall are beginning to show some success, even in the presence of imperfect models and measurementin regional rainfall are beginning to show some success, even in the presence of imperfect models and measurementin the presence of imperfect models and measurements.