Sentences with phrase «see widespread drought»

At that temperature we will see widespread drought and rising sea levels that will leave hundreds of millions without homes.

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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 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).

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 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).

That's the point at which we'd see more and more droughts, ever - rising sea levels, and widespread wildlife extinctions.

The first victim of anthropogenic droughts is the natural ecosystem, evidenced by the widespread environmental degradation we see around the world.