This is precisely the point Climate Science Watch has been underscoring — not
just about droughts and floods, but about the panoply of likely climate change impacts coming down the pike.
Not exact matches
Just read
about the
drought and the fires that plagued the state in the months following this proclamation.
After a long trophy
drought, Arsenal have now won two FA Cups in successive seasons, and have avoided the Champions League Qualifying round for next year, but when Rosicky was asked what he thought
about the season
just past instead of saying how well the club did he turned the conversation back to his «frustration».
But this year it's not
about ending a
drought or saving the manager, it's more
about just winning the trophy, not because we need to win it but because we want to win it.
In any case, if you've been suffering from the recent
drought of articles on e.politics, here's a chance to get your fix — I'll be on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics (internet) radio show this Thursday afternoon at 3 pm Eastern, to talk
about social networking, Twitter, political activism and
just about anything else that comes to mind.
In her last days at the Water Authority, Mulroy began to talk
about the
drought as a natural disaster — like a flood, which often garners federal aid money and a swift emergency response —
just slower moving.
The more Jansson and her colleagues are able to learn
about previously unknown communities of microbes, the better they'll be able to predict how these communities will react to different conditions —
droughts, warmer weather or floods,
just to kick off the list.
I think with the Vita, I had Gravity Rush (daze) and Uncharted, then there was nothing, for probably 5 months lol and the pattern
just seemed to go on like that, took
about a year before 2 games came out that I could say I really wanted like Uncharted and Gravity Rush again, that was Persona 4 and Soul Sacrifice, then literally, another years wait for Ys Celceta to come out, I
just think the Wii U has managed better since that first year
drought they had, plus I've had Wii mode to ponder which helps, I bought a ps3 on it's release and mostly played ps2 games on it, unfortunately it broke down a lot and I got fed up always sending it back, not really had many problems with my slim though,
just don't love the system like I loved my ps2.
Global warming is
just part of climate change, and it is climate change that we must care
about, because the way we live depends on a stable climate, with adequate rain, without
droughts and / or increased flooding.
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.
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.
The total area in
drought (D1 - D4) increased from
about 12 percent to
just over 20 percent with moderate
drought conditions (D1) expanding across western Colorado and into southern Wyoming.
However, because we're talking
about larger patterns, the
drought isn't «proof» of climate change —
just as cold weather isn't «proof» that it's a hoax.
«It is a direct indicator of
just how little weight his administration is giving to warnings from climate scientists
about longer
droughts, stronger storms and rising seas:»
The next time you read some horrific article
about how global warming is going to make the sea - level rise, cause
droughts, floods, and
just about anything else you can name including 3 - eyed cows and cooties, remember that the climate model used to predict it is crap.
Then there's
just this record - breaking precipitation that we're seeing, which is also linked to warmer baseline temperatures, because when you have warmer temperatures, you have
drought, but you also have these freak precipitation events, these big dumps, whether of storm when you think
about Boston and those images of cars fully submerged in snow, or what's happening right now in Texas, where you're getting 10 months worth of rain in a period of days.
Any paper that asserts things
about temperature vs
drought for the North American continent (or even
just the USA) as a whole is going to be broken.
But since you never tell us
about the impact from these natural trends (
droughts, starvation, disease, war etc.) and
just seem to think you can chuck out absolutist comments
about this, we know you're full of it....
My comments to reporters on February 13, to which Dr. Pielke referred in his February 14 tweet and to which Senator Sessions referred in the February 25 hearing, were provided
just ahead of President Obama's visit to the
drought - stricken California Central Valley and were explicitly
about the
drought situation in California and elsewhere in the West.
«Extreme» in their usage is defined in terms of precipitation and can include either wet extremes or dry extremes (
just as IPCC expresses concern
about droughts and floods.)
It is no longer
just a conversation
about the divide between Global North and South, loss and damage has now become evident within the Global North through hurricane Katrina, extreme
droughts in California, and destructive wildfires throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Sydney's water supply has been under threat during an extended
drought dam levels having dropped down to
about 34 % of capacity, before some heavy rains this year, which have taken them
just over 50 %.