Vivi
explains about the drought and how the civil war started.
Not exact matches
It finds that heat stress concurrent with
drought or water excess can
explain about 40 % of the changes in wheat yields from one year to another.
Without baseline information
about what killed trees before the
drought, Das
explains, ecologists would have overlooked these details.
The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper)
explained to me for a story I wrote
about the California
drought.
They suggest that during previous warm periods — one
about 120,000 years ago and another
about 10,000 years ago — the Middle East saw severe
drought, with rainfall decreasing to at least half of what it typically is today, and at its worst drying up by 80 percent, Columbia University
explained in a statement.
«The extra heat from the increase in heat trapping gases in the atmosphere over six months is equivalent to running a small microwave oven at full power for
about half an hour over every square foot of the land under the
drought,» climatologist Kevin Trenberth
explained to me via email.