Sentences with phrase «rainfall as a result of global warming»

Although many parts of west Africa are experiencing increased rainfall as a result of global warming, in northern Ghana, which is mostly arid savanna, it's diminishing or becoming unpredictable.

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The changes to our planet as a result of global warming are apparent for all to see: the receding glaciers in temperate climates, the reduction in rainfall and advancing deserts in Africa and the lakes in the Mideast and Asia that are virtually disappearing.

A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.

Scaling the results from both theory as well as climate model projections suggest, then, that roughly 3 % of hurricane rainfall today can be reasonably attributed to manmade global warming.

And these results, as they continue, «suggest that an increased temperature will result n a shortening of the life span of mosquitoes (due to decreasing humidity) and decrease in the capacity of larva production and maturation (due to decreasing rainfall),» so that ultimately «the increase in temperature will not result in an increased malaria transmission in Burundi,»...» [Hermenegilde Nkurunziza and Juergen Pilz 2011: International Journal of Global Warming]