Sentences with phrase «if rainfall patterns»

This mechanism leads to worsened drought even if rainfall patterns are unchanged.

If these rainfall patterns persist long enough for people on the ground to take advantage, it could well direct human activity toward those areas and accelerate their demise via exploitation, just as if the rainfall had actually stopped and the trees had died in place for that reason.

If the rainfall patterns change...

Not exact matches

«If somebody deployed a sulfur layer in the atmosphere, that could have catastrophic outcomes,» like changing rainfall patterns over India that farmers rely on, adds Caldeira, who also served on the committee.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

If changing temperatures and rainfall patterns kill off coffee, will that finally spur us into action?

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

There is also the danger of knock - on consequences, including changes in rainfall patterns, and what scientists call «termination shock» — a sudden warming if the system were to fail.

I conceive of it this way: if a tree has its roots sunk in the watertable along the bottomland of a fairly steady river, a few years of rainfall aren't going to change the pattern of its growth rings.

If tropical rainfall patterns shift, ecosystems like rainforests could be hugely impacted.

We can't measure the evaporation rate or rainfall pattern, but we are allowed to look at the number of tourists who stay in nearby hotels, some of whom state if they have fishermen or windsurfers staying, and so one can use these as proxies for sunlight / rainfall patterns (CO2 partitioning into temperature dependent aquatic bodies).

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.