Sentences with phrase «worst impacts of drought»

But we can avoid some of the worst impacts of drought for Western North America.

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Although Kaplan says the recent stretch of drought and bad weather will have a noticeable impact on the produce industry as a whole over the next year, Professional Produce stands prepared to increase its presence in the marketplace.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

It will also minimize some of the worst impacts of climate change: drought, heat waves, heavy rain and flooding, and sea level rise.

Impact of floods, droughts and heatwaves on European cities will be worse than previously feared, say scientists

With the obvious exception of Southern California, it is remarkable how the worst of the drought impacts seem to be upon states of the old South, plus a few from the «New West» that have a recent history of actively distancing themselves from Federal control.

Chronic poverty here has been directly linked to the impacts of drought and dry spells that are expected to get worse.

«We found that the average impact of drought disasters on crops has gotten worse,» Lesk said.

«Swift and strong climate action is necessary to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and adapt to the new reality of rising seas and melting ice, superstorms and crippling drought,» says Erich Pica, the President of Friends of the Earth.

Although important differences must be acknowledged — for example, the causes and the amplitudes of the warming, and the probable impacts of land cover change on temperatures — the medieval droughts can provide some direct evidence of the Southwest hydroclimatic response to warming and a plausible, but conservative, worst - case scenario to be considered in sustainable water - resource planning.

Discussions of future impacts from changes in precipitation resulting from human emissions of greenhouse gases are everywhere in the report and they are usually bad — increased droughts, floods, and longer dry spells, for example.