Sentences with phrase «extreme food shortages»

It's not that simple, though: The massive Tambora eruption of 1815 cooled the Earth so much that Europe suffered the «year without summer,» leading to extreme food shortages.

Men and women exposed in early gestation to the human - made Ukrainian Famine of 1932 - 33 in regions with extreme food shortages were 1.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in adulthood.

A famine is declared when at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent; and the death rate exceeds two people per 10,000 per day.

As a warming climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to understand how polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.

A country is officially experiencing famine when one in five homes face extreme food shortages with little ability to cope.

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A report has looked at which sections of the population are left most exposed to food shortages after extreme weather events.

The cases with lowest vulnerability showed no extreme social change or food shortage following climate disasters.

It would place billions of people at risk from extreme temperatures, flooding, regional drought, and food shortages.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the International Federation of the Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal as extreme flooding is predicted to worsen food shortages.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

This research also confirmed that all subjects had elevated levels of food cravings, which suggests that an extreme sleep shortage may may affect human's food perception.

The main question is when will these extremes hit the global food supply and cause shortages, just this week there are articles about how China's rice and grain crops are being stressed by flooding and drought events.

But whatever our stance on CO2, it's clear we need to prepare somewhat better for extreme weather events, water, food and energy shortages than we do now.

The stark report states that climate change has already increased the risk of severe heatwaves and other extreme weather and warns of worse to come, including food shortages and violent conflicts.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

Anyone is hiding their head in the sand if they ignores the increasingly frequent and extreme floods, droughts, water shortages, wildfires, food supply problems, socioeconomic unrest and other associated problems showing up in world news.

A second story (p 11) on prospective food shortages in Asia over the next 25 years says that «solutions» will be needed «as climate change brings more extreme flooding, storm tides, and probably drought in the great rice - growing deltas of South and Southeast Asia.»

For instance, extreme weather events in one region may impact production of commodities that are traded internationally, contributing to shortages of supply and hence increased prices to consumers, influencing financial markets and disrupting food security worldwide, with social unrest a possible outcome of food shortages.

Situations where water may run dry, where mass migrations are provoked by food shortages or where extreme weather events on the rise.

The Lowy Institute report argues that expected climate change «poses fundamental questions of human security, survival and the stability of nation states» and identifies food shortages, extreme weather events and rising sea - levels as potential causes of large - scale, unregulated population movements in Asia and destabilisation of governments unable to respond.

The goal was based on the broad recognition that exceeding this threshold would result in consequences, such as sea - level rise, food shortages, worsening storms and extreme heat waves likely to outpace our civilization's adaptive capability.

Consequential to such a scenario are widespread food shortages, extreme poverty, massive destruction of our habitats, and imbalance in our ecosystems.

Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.

Beyond that, «more frequent and extreme weather events will compound things further, creating shortages, destabilizing markets, and precipitating food price spikes which will be felt on top of the projected structural price rises.»

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.