Sentences with phrase «reports about drought»

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The report comes amid mounting concerns about water supplies in the south - east following two dry winters, with hosepipe bans in force and a drought order already implemented by one water firm.

It found that about 50 % of bases reported effects from events like storm surge flooding, wildfire, drought and wind.

And, on the heels of a recent report about the global droughts to be expected due to climate change — one can only wonder if such scenes will become more common elsewhere.Throughout the affected state of Amazonia, rivers provide the only means of access to the outside world for families residing in the regions around the capital of Manaus.

To their credit, at least one report on August 11, 1999 told CNN viewers not to panic about drought conditions.

Mooney agreed that all these features played a role in making the report particularly effective, and then choose to emphasize the point about impacts already felt, picking out the example of the Texas drought of 2011.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

Oceania also reported a net loss of forest (about 700 000 ha per year over the period 2000 — 2010), mainly due to large losses of forests in Australia, where severe drought and forest fires have exacerbated the loss of forest since 2000.

In the rest of this response, I will show, first, that the indicated quote from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) about U.S. droughts is missing a crucial adjacent sentence in the CCSP report, which supports my position about drought in the American West.

Any careful reading of the 2013 IPCC report and other recent scientific literature about on the subject reveals that droughts have been worsening in some regions in recent decades while lessening in other regions, and that the IPCC's «low confidence» about a global trend relates mainly to the question of total area prone to drought and a lack of sufficient measurements to settle it.

(Read about a new report downplaying the role of global warming in California's drought.)

One worry I have about the latest report is that the risks from changes in hurricanes, tornadoes, and droughts are understated.

What the report says about drought, dust storms, and climate change: The human effect on droughts is complicated.

A new report provides a national assessment on the possible impact of drought brought about by global warming.

While a recent report tells us current droughts in the western USA hardly make the top ten, we have this from Stanford University, a claim about drought related crop insurance claims that doesn't seem to match data on national yields and trend.

We are an independent, non-partisan science organization that researches and reports the facts about climate change impacts, such as extreme weather, drought, flooding, wild fires, and sea level rise, as well as alternative energy systems and transportation.

Latest news have been reported about LA's efforts to fight drought and save water by releasing millions of plastic black balls, or shade balls, into the LA Reservoir.