Sentences with phrase «intense drought this year»
Much of the northern half of South America also had elevated November temperatures, particularly parts of Brazil, which has been suffering from an intense drought this year.
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The 2012 - 2015 drought, which inspired Taeb and his colleagues to pursue this research, was among the most intense to occur in the past 1,200 years.
The hot and dry weather in the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley caused an intense short - term drought to develop despite long - term drought being eliminated earlier in the year from heavy spring precipitation.
The part of the country that is perhaps most closely watching the forecast is California, which desperately needs increased precipitation to begin the long climb out of four years of intense drought.
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama have experienced severe droughts over the past year due to a particularly intense El Niño weather phenomenon, reducing the availability of water and possibly vegetation that howler monkeys feed on.
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.
«We're going to be see more of these periods of intense droughts followed by intense rain,» which is the situation predicted for East Africa this year.
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,
«Poor land use practices and many years of intense drought contributed to these heat waves by depleting soil moisture and reducing the moderating effects of evaporation.»
16 years without additional warming, no more intense hurricanes, no more intense tornadoes, no increased sea level rise beyond the rate we've seen for centuries, no more flooding, no more droughts than we've had, and on top of it what looks to be lower, perhaps much lower atmospheric sensitivity.
Intense heat has continued to break records across the country as Texas suffers its most severe one - year drought on record.
Extreme drought grips the South and Midwest; in Memphis, which suffered intense flooding earlier this year, just one - hundredth of an inch of rain has fallen this month.
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...»
Heat waves, droughts, and intense rain events have increased in frequency during the last 50 years, and human - induced global warming more likely than not contributed to the trend.
«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.
Higher temperatures, long droughts punctuated by intense rainfall, more resilient pests and plant diseases — all of which are associated with climate change — have reduced coffee supplies dramatically in recent years.
Intense 100 - year droughts also caused widespread tree mortality in the Amazon basin in 2005 and 2010.
A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 2012 — 2014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years.
Any place that is having it's 100 year flood / drought will be having a «more intense extreme event» in that region.
Climate model projections suggest that by year 2100, both intense drought and flooding may increase in frequency by at least 50 percent.
Recent investigation of longer term U.S. Great Plains drought variability over the past 2000 years with the use of paleo - climatic data suggests that no droughts as intense as those of the 1930s have occurred since the 1700s.
Drought experiments, where a roof is built under the forest canopy to reduce rainfall, show that most forest trees survive a single year's intense drought, in agreement with the ground observations in the 2005 drought, but can't persist with repeated years of drought.
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.
Climate change disinformation is responsible for almost a 40 year delay in reducing GHG emissions to safe levels and harsh climate change impacts are already visible in many parts of the world caused by rising seas, much more intense storms, droughts, and floods.