Sentences with phrase «years of drought already»

Abby Halperin, Myles Allen and Friederike Otto explain how serious the ongoing drought is in California, which has experienced four years of drought already, and how this experiment will help determine what effect, if any, climate change has had on how likely this drought is.

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If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

This could result in higher rates for crop insurance, which could be detrimental to Oklahoma farmers as this farming season has already seen high levels of precipitation following a five - year drought.

Even though the recent heat wave has ended, weeks of drought and days of 100 - degree temperatures have already taken a toll on this year's corn crop in a large part of the Midwestern United States.

One scenario already found that the mean natural flow at Lees Ferry, Ariz., is projected to decrease by 9 percent over the next 50 years and experience an increased frequency and duration of drought.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

The science or environment ministers of one nation after another told us of how they are suffering already from droughts, typhoons, flooding and sea level rise which have set back their development by years or decades.

But, in the region where human civilisation began, already in the grip of its worst drought for 900 years, it is a reminder of how bad things could get, and, less certainly, a guide to how much worse human - induced climate change could become.

«The Amazon rainforest has already entered a dieback, in which the vicious cycle between land use (cattle ranching, logging), seasonal drought, and fire are rapidly degrading enormous swathes of rainforest each year.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penman-Monteith Already, there are suggestions that the anomalously high temperatures recorded in recent years have exacerbated the impacts of the recent drought [e.g., Nicholls, 2004] But yes temperature is only one factor.

Dairy farmers say the new regulations will drive up costs when they're already struggling with five years of drought, low milk prices and rising labor costs.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

Year - to - year climate variability in the form of drought or flooding already has large - scale effects on food security toYear - to - year climate variability in the form of drought or flooding already has large - scale effects on food security toyear climate variability in the form of drought or flooding already has large - scale effects on food security today.

Climate change disinformation is responsible for almost a 40 year delay in reducing GHG emissions to safe levels and harsh climate change impacts are already visible in many parts of the world caused by rising seas, much more intense storms, droughts, and floods.

And then, exacerbating the situation is a once - in - a-century drought that has not only created crisis - level water shortages in many sectors of the country, but driven an already dangerous (official) unemployment rate to its worst levels in 13 years.