Sentences with phrase «of widespread droughts»

This was also a period during which much of middle America was affected by a serious of widespread droughts, and extreme weather conditions.

The devastation of the widespread drought of the 1860s is evident in the many ruins dotting the countryside.

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.

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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.