Sentences with phrase «more widespread drought»
It is leading to more widespread drought, more frequent heat waves and more powerful hurricanes.
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The researchers also looked at other extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur more often as global temperatures increased.
«The 2010 drought appears to have been more widespread than in 2005, and this may have important consequences in regions across Amazonia already prone to drought stress.
As the climate continues to warm and produce more severe droughts, fires and tree die - off events across the western United States, the potential for widespread vegetation - type conversion is becoming increasingly plausible.
THE blizzards that hit the north - east US may have dominated the headlines last weekend, but across much of the country the most widespread drought in more than half a century is still biting — especially along the nation's iconic waterways (see diagram).
Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.
Observed marked increases in drought in the past three decades arise from more intense and longer droughts over wider areas, as a critical threshold for delineating drought is exceeded over increasingly widespread areas.
Hence, the observed marked increases in drought in the past three decades arise from more intense and longer droughts over wider areas, as a critical threshold for delineating drought is exceeded over increasingly widespread areas.
Global temperatures have increased by ∼ 0.2 °C per decade over the last three decades16, possibly leading to an acceleration of the global water cycle with more intense rainfall events17, more severe and widespread droughts18 (despite drought frequencies appearing unchanged19) and regional humidity variations20.
She and Andrew Kinkella of California's Moorpark College explored the cenote and found that more offerings to Chaak, the Maya rain god, were placed in the shrine after a widespread drought hit the Maya region.
Just last week, the World Bank reported that within the next generation that same warming atmosphere could lead to widespread water and food shortages, historic heat waves, prolonged droughts, and more intense flooding.
This is forecast to cause increased droughts for more than a billion people, bring about widespread death of coral reefs, and put up to a third of all species at risk of extinction.
«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.
If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.
That's the point at which we'd see more and more droughts, ever - rising sea levels, and widespread wildlife extinctions.
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.
A particularly severe El Niño has played an important role: droughts are typically more widespread and severe than normal during El Niño years.
Clinton never once mentioned rising sea levels, more severe hurricanes, or widespread droughts (though he's certainly aware of such threats).
Beyond this threshold, widespread flooding, droughts, and storms will be more severe.