And there are appreciable artifacts in the record as a result of changing soil moisture and thus changing ratios of sensible and latent heat at 2m from the ground — plausibly causing an increasing land / ocean temperature divergence during periods
of widespread drought.
The devastation
of the widespread drought of the 1860s is evident in the many ruins dotting the countryside.
This was also a period during which much of middle America was affected by a serious
of widespread droughts, and extreme weather conditions.
Not exact matches
naked pastor, if one looks at the current state
of the economy, the
widespread drought, the unemployment situation, the rise leaders that are not God fearing.
Jody has over 25 years
of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range
of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration
of The Living Murray, delivery
of environmental water with and on behalf
of Basin states, development and implementation
of a plan to avoid
widespread acidification to the lower lakes
of the Murray system during the Millennium
drought and identification
of the sustainable level
of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.
The difficulties
of bridging the partisan gap were in evidence on their last day, when lawmakers were unable to agree on two pressing problems: how to help livestock producers suffering from
widespread drought and how to protect critical industries from cyberattacks launched by terrorists or other enemies.
In the study, they examined how the next generation
of pinyon pine trees were recovering after a severe
drought in 2002 - 2004 caused
widespread mortality in adult trees.
The address captured what some advocates had hoped to hear from Obama following the bruising impacts
of widespread disasters last year, including a
drought that sizzled 60 percent
of the nation and damages from Superstorm Sandy exceeding $ 50 billion.
«Recent
droughts have resulted in
widespread pinyon pine mortality throughout much
of the southwestern U.S.,» said Miranda Redmond, CSU assistant professor and lead author
of the study.
Their optimistic goal: keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid doomsday scenarios
of rising seas,
widespread droughts and melting ice.
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.
Scientists predict that climate change will cause
widespread agricultural problems, mainly in the form
of drought — especially when fresh water and irrigation infrastructure are not available.
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).
Forests around the world are at risk
of death due to
widespread drought, University
of Stirling researchers have found.
When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world
of continuing high greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold for
widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate
widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.
The 2000 - 2003
drought in the American southwest triggered a
widespread die - off
of forests around the region.
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.
Severe rainfall deficits this year have lead to
widespread drought that has decimated the maize crop, costing hundreds
of millions
of dollars in losses.
It was the worst
drought in the instrumental record, causing
widespread crop failure and a mass migration
of farming families to urban centers.»
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.
It is clear that the 1C temperature rise over pre-industrial levels that we have seen so far has triggered a whole range
of effects including
widespread melting
of mountain glaciers, significant sea level rise, devastating
droughts, and flooding in various parts
of the world.
The phase
of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that leads to warmer conditions may also prolong and intensify the fire season (Heyerdahl et al. 2008; Jolly et al. 2015; Abatzoglou and Williams 2016), and it is clear that years with protracted or
widespread wildland fire or increased fire severity are correlated with
drought (Littell et al. 2009; van Mantgem et al. 2013).
The combination
of the 2006 - 2010
drought and
widespread overuse
of groundwater in previous decades meant crop yields plummeted across the country, the new study says.
«There's a lot
of research on how different kinds
of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most
widespread natural disaster is
drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.
Use
of millet is also
widespread in Africa, like gluten free teff, likely due to the
drought prone climate.
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.
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.
The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period
of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent
drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event
of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.
I do think that we humans are needlessly speeding things along, but do not think that even if we get the global mean temperature increase below 2 degrees that we can not or will not have
widespread droughts and potential world catastrophes in terms
of both weather and climate.
During the past week,
drought conditions have improved slightly across the U.S., but the majority
of the lower 48 states continue to suffer from what is proving to be a
widespread and pernicious
drought event, according to the latest U.S.
Drought Monitor statistics, released on Thursday.
For instance, what is the cumulative likelyhood
of a combination
of drought and floods causing a very
widespread famine before 2030?
Bangladesh will be under water, rural Asia and Latin America will have their fresh water cut off due to the disappearance
of the glaciers which feed their rivers, the third world will be unable to buy enough food due to
widespread drought.
This
drought has many
of the attributes
of past historical
droughts over the region —
widespread lack
of storms and rainfall that would normally enter the region from the Pacific with considerable frequency.
The potential consequences
of warming include
widespread famine, triggered by extreme
drought in the major grain - producing areas
of the world; the wholesale disappearance
of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course
of a few centuries.»
They include soaring temperatures, declining late - season snowpack, northward - shifted winter storm tracks, increasing precipitation intensity, the worst
drought since measurements began, steep declines in Colorado River reservoir storage,
widespread vegetation mortality, and sharp increases in the frequency
of large wildfires.
The end
of the first half
of the Holocene — between about 5 and 4 ka — was punctuated by rapid events at various latitudes, such as an abrupt increase in NH sea ice cover (Jennings et al., 2001); a decrease in Greenland deuterium excess, reflecting a change in the hydrological cycle (Masson - Delmotte et al., 2005b); abrupt cooling events in European climate (Seppa and Birks, 2001; Lauritzen, 2003);
widespread North American
drought for centuries (Booth et al., 2005); and changes in South American climate (Marchant and Hooghiemstra, 2004).
Forests around the world are at risk
of death due to
widespread drought, University
of Stirling researchers have found.
The Great Plains are finally beginning to enjoy cloudbursts
of relief from two years
of epic
drought — the worst in the region's history, and part
of the most
widespread drought to afflict the U.S. since 2000.
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.
Likely impacts include large - scale disintegration
of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice - sheet; the extinction
of an estimated 15 — 40 per cent
of plant and animal species; dangerous ocean acidification; increasing methane release; substantial soil and ocean carbon - cycle feedbacks; and
widespread drought and desertification in Africa, Australia, Mediterranean Europe, and the western USA.
According to new research,
drought damage will likely cause
widespread forest death by the 2050s as a result
of climate change.
The authors showed that a
widespread, severe
drought - and - beetle - induced die - off
of pinyon pine in the American Southwest was exacerbated by higher average temperatures, relative to past episodes
of 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 decade saw
droughts across the world, with some
of the longest and most severe in Australia (2002 and other years), East Africa (2004 and 2005, resulting in
widespread loss
of life) and the Amazon basin (2010).
Widespread decline in greenness
of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010
drought.
One such
drought, the «Dust Bowl»
of the 1930s, resulted in
widespread crop failure, dust storms, and the displacement
of thousands
of people.
Documented long - term climate changes include changes in Arctic temperatures and ice,
widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and extreme weather including
droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity
of tropical cyclones.
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.
Crops have been hit hard this year thanks to the historic,
widespread drought gripping a majority
of nation.