Sentences with phrase «year flood record»

Still, he says, the 500 - year flood record is an important part of solving that puzzle.

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All these factors have caused investors to flood into US Treasuries, with the 10 year note making records lows of under 1.5 %.

This view holds that the entire cosmos is around 6,000 years old, that the fossil record was laid down almost in its entirety during a literal, global worldwide flood, that God created humans directly out of dust, and that Adam and Eve are the progenitors of the entire human race.

Do you have some record of a worldwide flood in the last 200,000 years?

Most Young Earth Creationists (Creationists who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old) believe that the Grand Canyon was formed by the waters of the flood as recorded in Genesis 6 - 8.

The Sumerians preserved records of the kings who lived before the flood and of those who lived after the Flood, and some of the former ruled for as long as thirty - six thousand years!

DAIRY imports hit a record $ 2 billion last year, on the back of a flood of New Zealand, US and European trade.

A year ago, Lake Ontario began an unprecedented climb that resulted in record water levels and catastrophic flooding for those on its shoreline.

«LASEMA, in the last one year had responded to numerous fire incidents, road accidents, flooding, illegal parked trucks, gas explosion / emission amongst other emergencies in record time, thereby saving lots of lives and properties worth millions of naira,» Oladejo said.

Stanley, running for a fourth two - year term, cited his own record of shepherding the town through natural disasters and obtaining grants for repairs and flood resilience.

Munoz and his colleagues studied tree rings and sediments from oxbow lakes to create their 500 - year record of Mississippi River floods.

Because there has been a flood of wonderful and, I think, profound discoveries in just the last few years that were made by studying the DNA record of evolution.

The sediments in Sky Pond in the Rocky Mountains show that around 1950 nitrogen began to flood the lake, an event unprecedented in at least 14,000 years and this isotopic record too could have a pretty precise start date: July 2, 1909 when Fritz Haber first demonstrated how to make ammonia from the air in Germany.

The flooding continued the heavy precipitation trend of 2010, which was the wettest year on record.

This year, Texas suffered through the worst one - year drought in its history, while states along the Mississippi River endured record flooding.

In addition to the flooding, recent years have brought record heat waves, costly crop losses, and brush fires of unimaginable ferocity.

A La Niña has just finished, after bringing record - breaking floods to Australia earlier this year.

Moore cites devastating floods that swelled the upper Mississippi River to a record size in December 2015 — not the time of year when the river is expected to overflow its banks.

Record - level flooding in 2010 and last year washed out roadways in Tennessee, Rhode Island, Iowa and Wisconsin, for instance.

Newly published research by Rhawn Denniston, professor of geology at Cornell College, and his research team, applied a novel technique to stalagmites from the Australian tropics to create a 2,200 - year - long record of flood events that might also help predict future climate change.

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

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

By comparing volcanic activity to records of social unrest, the researchers found a correlation between the two that was too closely matched to dismiss: «In years influenced by volcanic eruptions, Nile flooding was generally diminished, leading to social stress that could trigger unrest and have other political and economic consequences,» Manning said.

Flood frequency in the River Ammer discharge record is significantly correlated to changes in solar activity when the flood record lags the solar signal by 2 — 3 years (2 - year lag: r = − 0.375, p = 0.01; 3 - year lag: r = − 0.371, p = 0.03).

With record heat waves around the world, strange 500 - year floods, and creatures dying in hot seas, there is lots to talk about.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

The idea of creating a calendar began thousands of years ago, when humans first realized the advantages of preparing for the future, such as anticipating annual floods, and of recording the past.

From hurricanes to flooding and wildfires, last year was the costliest year on record for natural disasters.

And this year, with liquidity flooding the financial sector and art viewed as a safe and attractive place to park it, sellers are planning to push the art market even further into the stratosphere with new records for the biggest name - brand artists, testing what the top buyers can sustain.

Lower Mississippi had near record spring then that was topped by 500 year flooding in mid-west.

The extensive flooding in South America: Columbia, last september and again now (they have 2 wet seasons a year) is record breaking.

I also remember the flood of predictions, made with great certainty, that 2007 would we the warmest year on record.

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Explores statistical relationships between annual floods at 200 long - term (85 — 127 years of record) streamgauges in the coterminous United States and the global mean carbon dioxide concentration (GMCO2) record

This has been a year of extremes — record flooding in Pakistan, a drought in Russia, for example.

I asked him for his thoughts about climate change, after noting that we'd been through a year of record global temperatures, floods, and the Paris climate accord.

In all, this blend created record levels of rain which basically make this a once in 1,000 years flood.

Close by in southern England (3), half of all recording stations show that flooding is now arriving eight days earlier than it did 50 years ago (see blue line in chart D above).

An example is the 20 to 40 years regime changes in Australian rainfall that has physical evidence in stream form and in flood records.

«If you look at the weather records, the worst flooding and the worst drought we've had since weather stations were established have been in the last 10 years.»

The United States has suffered from a record number of billion dollar natural disasters this year, from the Mississippi and Missouri River flooding to Hurricane Irene and the Texas drought.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

Two years before record floods hit Pakistan in 2010, the federal government had formed a Presidential Task Force on Climate Change.

Earlier Wednesday (Dec. 7) the agency announced that this year, so far, had broken the record for costly, weather - related disasters, including drought, wildfire, tornados, flooding, a blizzard and a hurricane.

Now, three years later, we see another massive flood on the Mississippi, and record floods elsewhere.

England and Wales this year had their wettest May and June since records began in 1766, resulting in extensive flooding and more than $ 6 billion in damage, as well as at least nine deaths.

Pondering an 847 year record of Nile overflow data, Hurst noticed that the series was persistent in the sense that heavy flood years tended to be followed by heavier than average flood years while below average flood years were typically followed by light flood years.

Here are a couple of striking numbers from the data: in the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate - related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.2 The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate - related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category.

It tells me that God is keeping the promise he made to Noah after the world - drowning flood thousands of years ago recorded in Genesis.

As well as droughts, floods and other extreme events, the next few years are also likely to be the hottest on record, scientists say.