Sentences with phrase «few years of drought»

«It takes a few years of drought to kill most Sahelian trees,» he explained.

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After all the frenetic deal - making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and acquisitions.

It appears that Colorado is just a few years behind that in terms of drought.»

Just a few years ago, in the depths of its worst drought in at least 900 years, Israel was running out of water.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Its records show that in the first few months of this year, when the drought was at its worst, almost no rain fell.

The most obvious difference between this year and that event, clearly visible in the animation, is the «blob» of warm water off the west coast of North America, a symptom of the relentless high pressure pattern that has kept the West hot and dry over much of the last few years and led to the deep drought in California.

Nintendo had to adapt to the difficulties of HD game development a generation after the rest of the console makers which led to the infamous Wii U droughts, and the reason why Kimishima had to reshape the entire development structure of the company just a few years ago.

On the other hand, another effect of global warming, namely massive, continent - wide, intense, persistent drought, could begin at any time and have catastrophic effects on agriculture, leading to widespread famine within a few years.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

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.

From the perspective of soil moisture, the ongoing drought is the worst in at least the last 1,200 years, the study found, adding that the high temperatures in the past few years may have aggravated the precipitation deficits by nearly 40 %.

Our monopolist will have definitive explanations for the Younger Dryas, the 2200 BC cooling / drought, the great monsoon failures of eg 1770s, 1790s, 1870s, the great pluvials of eg Genghis Khan period, Peru AD 1100... and all other major climate shifts within the last few thousand years.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

But by ignoring natural change, climate fear mongers delude the public into believing La Nina - caused droughts of the past few years were due to CO2 warming.

Accurate forecasts of climate conditions over time periods of weeks to a few years — called intraseasonal to interannual timescales — can help people plan agricultural activities, mitigate drought, and manage energy resources.

A few years ago, beguiled by the predictions of permanent drought, the leaders in Queensland Australia decided not to enhance their flood control system.

Here are a couple of striking numbers from the data: in the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate - related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.2 The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate - related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category.

We've experienced all manner of climate extremes over the past few years, from heatwaves (both on land and over the Great Barrier Reef), to droughts and flooding rains.

In case you missed a few favorites, we rounded up some of the popular reads from this year on Water Deeply about the California drought and water issues in the West.

Having read much of the recent drought literature and interviewed many of the leading drought experts in the last few years, I can say that Holdren's views are right in the mainstream of climatologists» view of drought.

This view is unsupported, he says, by data for the past hundred years analyzed by the US National Climate Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term trend.

Those from the Western (63 %) and Midwestern U.S. (56 %), both of which have experienced substantial water shortages over the past few years, are especially likely to name drought as their top worry.

In the few droughts that came along in the past 11 years and lake level declined and acres of lake bottom that I own was exposed hundreds of tree stumps unformally cut at waist level start appearing.

The drought of the last few years (which you can read about in the above link) has affected Texas lake levels significantly.

A few more years of that SW US drought, a few more big hurricanes hitting cities — how much would it take to panic Americans into making climate change a high priority?

This is partly because a few of the big stories happened here this year, but also, because the underlying theme really is the realization that climate change is not something of the future, but rather, something of the present, and key lessons learned in that important area of study happened in the American West (fires) the South and Midwest (droughts, crop failures, closing of river ways) and Northeast (Sandy).

Instead, Zukor thinks, «A few more years of these new meteorological patterns, a few more disasters, and every person on the street would be able to speak intelligently about drought, methane pollution, UV poisoning.

Spurred on by the region's wildfires, which have been steadily increasing over the last few years, and droughts, the region's remaining swaths of forest and grasslands risk being lost in a single summer - leaving behind a spare, «semidesertic» ecosystem.

While we may only get a few inches of rainfall each year, it often comes all at once, prompting both disaster warnings and gratitude that our reservoirs and aquifers will be partly replenished and another drought staved off.

Read / Purchase the Report Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability (2010) Accurate forecasts of climate conditions over time periods of weeks to a few years — called intraseasonal to interannual timescales — can help people plan agricultural activities, mitigate drought, and manage energy resources.

That's worrisome for many reasons, considering that these rivers not only help provide for the richest agricultural regions of the country: in the next few years, the Yangtze is supposed to provide water, via the country's largest aqueduct, to Beijing up in the drought - ridden north.

We took the farm tour and viewed large plots of land where the longest - ever side - by - side experiments have been conducted, comparing organic methods with non-organic, measuring yields, effects on soil, moisture, humus, microbiological activity, etc. (Initially, organic farming yields drop off, but within a few years, organic yields are equivalent of chemical farming yields, but in drought years, organic agriculture provides higher yields.

Then its third paragraph seems to imply we can begin to see some kind of ominous pattern from this cumulative experience, with its money quote being, «After a few years of big storms, bizarrely warm winters and drought warnings, we no longer want nice weather.

Simmons and the youth he works with have observed first - hand changes to their country over the past few years; longer droughts and dry seasons, shorter but more intense rainy seasons, bleaching of coral reefs as well as stronger hurricanes.

Wildfires • While the 2011 wildfire season continued the trend of having fewer but larger wildfires, there was a significant geographic shift in home losses over the past year from California, which had a cooler and wetter - than - average fire season, to the drought - affected states of Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.