Sentences with phrase «unprecedented drought this year»

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

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And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

The Russian scientists associate the unprecedented heat and drought in their country over the last few years with rapid deforestation in western Russia.

One of the mightiest El Niño patterns in memory brought unprecedented drought and flooding in 2016, the hottest year on record.

March 7, 2017 • After five years of historic drought, the unprecedented amount of snow and rain falling now in California is a true test to some of the country's oldest infrastructure.

The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.

A plot of the worldwide data for the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows that there has been an unprecedented decrease in world drought severity over the past 30 years, possibly due to the plant enhancing increase of CO2.

In Syria, 15 years of drought are thought to have played a part in triggering the cruel civil war that has displaced millions and created a refugee crisis for Europe, and even briefly masked the entire region in an unprecedented dust storm.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

Consequently, the next time a serious drought takes hold of some part of the world and the likes of Al Gore blame it on the «carbon footprints» of you and your family, ask them why just the opposite of what their hypothesis suggests actually occurred over the course of the 20th century, i.e., why, when the earth warmed - and at a rate and to a degree that they claim was unprecedented overthousands of years - the rate - of - occurrence of severe regional droughts actually declined.»

Harvey and Irma have ended an unprecedented 12 - year hurricane drought, in which not a single category 4 or 5 hurricane made American landfall.

According to Griffin & Anchukaitis, the record heat intensified the drought by about 36 %, leading to exceptional drought conditions unprecedented in the past 1,200 years.

According to researchers Daniel Griffin and Kevin Anchukaitis, this drought is unprecedented in at least the past 1,200 years.

â $ œThe strongest hurricane on record for both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, unprecedented continuing drought in California, the warmest start to a year that weâ $ ™ ve ever seen, on the heels of what was the warmest full year on record for the globe, â $ ticked off Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University.