Sentences with phrase «worry about drought»

Sub-Saharan Africans voice similar levels of worry about drought — 59 % cite it as the most concerning potential effect of global climate change.

So when faced with a choice, plants make only hot chilies when they don't have to worry about a drought.

I am more worried about drought.

While Europeans express similar worries about drought (median of 35 %) and severe weather (27 %), they are among the most likely to consider rising sea levels (15 %) the greatest threat when compared with other regions.

Not exact matches

«Backup power is going to be of value certainly to businesses that worry about disruptions from hurricanes, storms, or even droughts that make water scarce for utilities,» Makower says.

Saudi dairy company Almarai, which in 2014 bought 9,600 acres of farmland in Arizona, has expanded its U.S. farmland holdings to 14,000 acres, causing growing worries about the state of local water reserves in drought - stricken Palo Verde Valley in southern California.

To be true I wasn't worried about Sanchez's goal scoring drought.......

Giroud is a player who thrives on confidence so if he had not scored that hat - trick at the end of last season to break the long scoring drought and then done himself justice at the Euros I would have been worried about how the Lucas Perez signing would affect him.

«When people talk about climate change, or droughts, or are worried about wildlife habitat, these are all things we've been working on the last 20 or 30 years,» said Kenna.

Farmers remember the burden of past regulations and worry more about those than the damage of droughts, floods or erratic weather.

By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Jan 9 (Reuters)- Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

But those who feared that a post-launch drought might stifle enthusiasm for the system have had little to worry about.

I would suggest that another near term impact that the public ought to be worried about is drought.

I agree with your sentiment that drought is the big driver on impact, and Wally emphasized the possibility for mega-droughts as something to worry about re future abrupt changes.

We won't have to worry about some of the big - ticket items like sea level rise, but droughts and forest dieback will remain a major threat.

They don't have to worry about flooding or drought in Bangladesh, as the sea will soon be rising up catastrophically and engulfing the whole country, according to CAGW theory.

With increasing drought and higher temperatures in the western U.S. climate scientists worry about increasing fire frequency by drying and warming landscapes.

Indeed, snow is piled so high that the big worry is not about summer drought but flash floods.

While St. Louis doesn't have to worry directly about sea levels or ice melt, stronger weather patterns including more droughts and floods are likely consequences of global warming, they said.

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

While drought (median of 41 %) is still the predominant climate change - related concern in the Asia - Pacific region, worry about severe weather (median of 34 %) follows close behind.

This guest post comes from GreenMother... I worry about the ongoing drought every day.

To be sure, most are vaguely worried about climate change, but only as long as a drought or a heat - wave lasts.

So the Nature paper has sparked worries that briefly cooler temperatures may take the heat out of action to fight the threat of more droughts and floods, while a debate about the article's findings has also underlined uncertainty about such forecasting.

Based on survey data gathered between 2008 and 2014, people living in the central US tended to be less worried about global warming than the national average, while residents of drought - stricken California showed noticeably more concern.