Sentences with phrase «serious global drought»

Not exact matches

Global warming initially got a lot of publicity from a minor drought at the end of the 80's I believe (minor compared to the dust bowl years), since then there hasn't been much unusual drought wise in the US (ie the droughts that have happened have been even less serious than the end of 80's situtation, let alone by comparison with the dust bowl years), but this hasn't exactly caused any problems.

With Kumik-esque levels of persistent drought in California and Brazil, as more and more people realize we now all inhabit a dangerously warmer world, even some Very Serious People are coming to grapple with a version of Crowden's question at a global scale: How on earth are we going to survive?

The heat and drought of the latter 1890s (a bit like the late 1870s) were tending global, with serious drought affecting Northern China, much of Africa and the Western US... even England!

The Paris climate agreement is a historic first step, but without a rapid transition to clean energy, we risk serious ever more serious fire, drought, extreme weather, conflict and global instability.»

The vast majority of Americans in each of 40 - plus states surveyed say global warming is real, serious and man - made, and the concerns tend to be slightly higher in coastal or drought - stricken areas, says an analysis out today.

Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices; the resultant price spikes had a serious economic impact in Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, where bread prices tripled.

The IPCC in its Summary for Policymakers (IPCC 2001), Tyson and Gatebe (2001), Schulze, Meigh and Horan (2001) and New (2002) predicted that global warming resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions, will have serious, adverse effects on water supplies, and that floods and droughts will increase in magnitude and frequency.

«Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours — global warming's serious effects are already here and getting worse,» wrote Borenstein.