Sentences with phrase «more times of drought»

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

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However, it is expected to be more muted than that following the breaking of the 1982/83 drought, when rainfall was more favourably timed and placed.

The subsequent rebuilding of livestock numbers takes time, so recoveries of livestock - related production from drought are generally more protracted than those for crop production.

Yes, the trophy drought is annoying, and it would be nice to see Arsenal win the trophy, but to almost blindly react with #WENGEROUT seems almost thoughtless; there is a time, and a place to have that discussion, but instead of becoming an angry and polarising discussion it should be done when everyone is a little more calmer, and, preferably, at the end of the season.

«Reduced mobility and increased integration of crop production and livestock raising seems to have made people more vulnerable in times of extreme drought,» the study says.

In a 2015 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another team of Columbia researchers made the case that climate change made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and that the drought was a catalyst for Syria's 2011 uprising.

Although dryland producers — those who grow crops without irrigation — are more vulnerable in times of drought, many irrigators are gazing warily at dropping water tables.

But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.

«This is surprising because European moles do the opposite: they are more often found on the surface at the time of extreme drought,» Dinets said.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

At the same time, the Amazon faces threats from climate change and the possibility of increased drought, making proper management all the more important.

Teotihuacan, less than 100 miles to the west, was in decline at the time, also possibly because of more frequent droughts.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

For more earth - friendly jeans, choose organic brands — organic farming methods protect the soil, and healthy soil holds more water reserves to help in times of drought.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

This time, taking advantage of a prolonged drought, Abdur had burned off much more than usual — the equivalent of five football fields.

Now the new study says the drought had a catalytic effect on the unrest in Syria, and human - caused climate change has made the chances of such a severe drought between two and three times more likely.

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I also see perennial - nominee Meryl Streep (17 times) squeaking by The Help's equally - deserving Viola Davis for Best Actress, more for her 29 - year drought than for her spot - on impersonation of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

Containing over 1,400 artifacts from the end of the Ancient Maya Empire that have lain undisturbed for more than a millennium, the ATM cave was once used by priests to conduct human sacrifices at a time of drought, warfare, and civil strife.

Global warming may be of some benefit in certain regions for some period of time, however, it will continue as it already is now, bring about more chaotic weather patterns, droughts, famine, floods, crop shortages etc... We are actually witnessing it now.

The obvious open questions relate to the importance of other forcings, in particular, greenhouse gases (which were not changed in this experiment), and the robustness of any transient response (i.e. does a simulated drought occur in the Sahel in the 1980s more often than at any other time).

If your goal is to enable the long - time survival of the human race, and to reduce potentially devastating environmental risks to society (drought, floods, famine, heat waves, sea level rise, etc) then focusing on global warming mitigation would make more sense.

If farmers could more accurately predict drought or the onset of the tropical rainy season, they would be better equipped to make pivotal timing and management decisions.

It is impossible to know whether extreme weather events (drought, floods, hurricanes) are more or less prevalent in previous times of higher CO2 and temperatures.

More importantly, as I've said several times now, in assessing the claim that the climate is hotter and drier you also have to take account of evaporation, which is now exacerbating droughts to the point that inflows to the Murray - Darling for 2006 are the lowest on record.

Colin Kelley, a climate scientist at the University of California — Santa Barbara and the study's lead author, said long - term climate trends made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and future trends point in the same direction.

The findings suggest that more of the Earth's land surface is being affected by drought now than it was a century ago and that recovery times are getting longer.

For many people in India it is the variability of rainfall on shorter time scales that has the biggest impacts — intense heavy rainfall leads to flooding; breaks in the monsoon of a week or more lead to water shortage and agricultural drought.

«If droughts become more frequent, as expected, the time between droughts may become shorter than drought recovery time, leading to permanently damaged ecosystems and widespread degradation of the land carbon sink.»

Droughts are one of the more costly natural hazards on a year - to - year basis; their impacts are significant and widespread, affecting many economic sectors and people at any one time.

The physical evidence becomes more dramatic every year: forests retreating, animals moving north, glaciers melting, wildfire seasons getting longer, higher rates of droughts, floods, and storms — five times as many in the 2000s as in the 1970s.

The atmosphere, being a gas, more readily displays alteration to turbulence, which is the reason humanity is observing the alteration to weather patterning that is leading to droughts and floods with attached events of «mudslides» and «storms» showing alteration to «strength», «timing» and / or «locations».

When people are told to stop watering their lawns because of a water shortage, they escalate (in the manner of sports hyperbole) to use the same word, drought, as is used for far more serious conditions, on a far vaster scale and lasting many years — such as the 1930s Dust Bowl or those three Little Ice Age droughts amidst good times in East Africa, lasting 30, 65, and 80 years.

They are being battered by stronger storms, more destructive floods, deeper and longer droughts and disruptive switches in the seasonal timing of rain.

In the worst case, 98 % of European cities could see damaging droughts, while in southern Europe, droughts could be 14 times more severe than now.

With the increase of incoming solar energy, the result is time spans of frequent and more intense droughts.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

Africa has faced drought, famine and disease since before Biblical times, and armed conflict is far more likely where a lack of electricity perpetuates poverty, scarcity and dashed hopes.

In addition to causing changes to the timing and quantity of surface water supply, global warming is also causing more severe impacts from drought.

(The only one I can think of, by the only really solidly qualified contrarian, Lindzen, who also claimed that tobacco wasn't linked to lung cancer, came up with an Iris theory that has been thoroughly repudiated (recent studies have in fact continued to strongly show increased atmospheric moisture), but his theory of a significant enough decrease to keep the earth from significantly warming at the same time this radical shift toward lack of global cloud cover (and far more drought everywhere?)

Major innovational pulses occurred at times when South African climate changed rapidly towards more humid conditions, while northern sub-Saharan Africa experienced widespread droughts, as the Northern Hemisphere entered phases of extreme cooling.

«Four times more adult trees were killed by fire during a drought year, which means that there was also more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, more tree species loss and a greater likelihood of grasses invading the forest.»

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

Droughts in tropical regions and the vegetation's inability to absorb the current CO2 levels represent a part of the organization's apprehension - according to the bulletin, no more than a half of the emissions can be absorbed, which results in the emissions remaining in the atmosphere for long periods of time.

Since 2005, the Amazon has experienced the two most severe droughts on record; in 2007, NASA satellite data shows that fires in southeast Amazonia burned 10 times more forest than in an average climate year — an area the size of a million soccer fields.

More alarmingly, the team working at the University of Leeds has reported that, far from being a once - in - a-century event as it was claimed at the time, the 2005 drought was far from a freak occurrence.

At a time when many, many people are already losing their lives and livelihoods to droughts and storms, our corporate state is draining the Paris agreement of any legal strength, rejecting any policy measures that carry more weight than polite recommendations, and shying away from anything lower than 2ºC as a «realistic» temperature target.

So while the jury is still out for this drought, there are droughts in the recent past, such as the Texas drought in 2011, where it was found that conditions, as a result of climate change, made it 20 times more likely for a drought of that magnitude to occur today as opposed to, say, the 1960s.