Sentences with phrase «years of drought made»

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«We have made available $ 250 million in concessional loans funding nationally this financial year to assist farmers to rebuild their businesses following drought and retrospective farmgate milk price cuts, part of a $ 2.5 billion, 10 — year commitment to concessional loans.

The Yarra Valley is arguably Australia's most creative wine region at present, a cauldron of inventiveness and much progress is being made despite the setbacks of heat - waves, bushfire smoke, droughts and frosts and this year's deluge.

Of course it makes sense — after four consecutive years of severe drought in California, even the coast, where it's always foggy and misty, is dried up so well, that mushrooms are nowhere to be seeOf course it makes sense — after four consecutive years of severe drought in California, even the coast, where it's always foggy and misty, is dried up so well, that mushrooms are nowhere to be seeof severe drought in California, even the coast, where it's always foggy and misty, is dried up so well, that mushrooms are nowhere to be seen!

Charlie's knees - up celebration added to this moment of beauty, and burnt into my eight - year - old head, so much so that the next time I notched in the playground attempts were made to mimic this joyous occasion (although due to a Lee Chapman-esque goal drought I did have to wait a while, but that's another story).

Also for the first time, two of these teams are ours, making North America the favorite to retain the bowl that the Dallas Aces captured last year in Stockholm after a 16 - year American victory drought.

They had one likely win and three likely losses, so they'll have to win a majority of the tight games to make sure their bowl drought ends at just one year.

City have never conquered in Europe but it is not just the club suffering a drought in the competition, with Guardiola failing to make a huge impact on the biggest stage of all in recent years — even with a star - studded Bayern Munich team, who made short work of their Bundesliga competition.

Then in 2013, Ozil joined Arsenal for a club record fee of # 42.5 m which made him the most expensive German player of all time and won the FA Cup in his debut season in England ending Arsenal's nine - year trophy drought.

Making sure pregnant beef cows meet their nutrient needs this winter could be difficult because of the toll this year's drought took on hay production.

Extreme drought in the Colorado River Basin last summer forced the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which manages river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - feet.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

Last year, Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville showed that a rise in the virtual water trade makes societies less resilient to severe droughts (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010GL043167).

One measure, a proposal to tear down four dams along a 140 - mile stretch of Oregon's Snake River, has made farmers and hydroelectric companies livid, especially in a year of local droughts and power shortages.

The wildfires storming California have been four years in the making, as the drought, thought to be heavily influenced by climate change, has been starving California's forests and mountains of water and snow, turning once - lush woods into crackling tinder that has ignited in explosive and unexpected ways.

The drought, they found, will lead this year to 32 percent more acres of land laid fallow, an increase in groundwater pumping to make up for the lack of water in rivers and reservoirs, and total job losses of 18,600.

THE three - year drought threatens to wipe out the last of the Muir Woods coho salmon that make their way each year from the Pacific to spawn in a freshwater creek running through the redwoods near San Francisco

November 14, 2014 • Three years of severe drought in California is forcing farmers and ranchers to make some tough choices.

The following three short pieces will not make a convincing scientific argument that Southern Australia's drought is being driven by a warming planet but municipal governments are facing the grim reality their water supplies could run out by the end of next year if significant rainfall does not occur.

But within a couple of years, the rapid construction of non-carbon wind and solar systems made up for San Onofre's lost electricity, and natural gas use — excluding excess natural gas burned to make up for lost hydroelectricity due to the drought — dropped again.

Jamie Lynn is an 11 - year old Navajo artist from northern Arizona who lives under the soaring azure skies of the American Southwest where the intensifying effects of climate change have made drought the new normal.

They're asking the government to reflect on the proof of climate change evidenced by this year's droughts, heat waves, raging wildfires, and floods — made all the more real by Hurricane Sandy.

Undoubtedly, the combination of drought, cold winters, hot summers and dust bowl made those years hellish - but the cause of the hot summers was also the cause of unusually cold winters.

Another study, published in Geophysical Research Letters in late December of last year, found that California's precipitation deficits alone do not make this drought a historic event.

Unfortunately, it might not make much of a difference: New research finds that forests can take years to recover from the damage droughts inflict.

These are normally the wettest months of the year — exactly when the state needs heavy rain and snow to make a dent in the drought.

Since it's essentially, and of course ironically, entirely non-scientists who make this claim, the deniers would do well to read a recent UCLA study that indicates California's current six - year severe drought could be exacerbated enough by global warming to extend the dry period for centuries.

«Warming in California has made it more probable that when a low precipitation year occurs, it occurs in warm conditions and is more likely to produce severe drought,» said lead study author Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford.

Like many other conference speakers and attendees, Secretary - General Ban cited the recent droughts, floods, and Tropical Storm Sandy as proof of the dire consequences of man - made global warming, even though many studies and scientists (including scientists who usually fall into the climate alarmist category) have stated that there is no evidence to support claims that «extreme weather» has been increasing in frequency and / or magnitude in recent years, or that extreme events (hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, etc.) have anything to do with increased CO2 levels.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, as the warmest year in American history draws to a close, as the disastrous drought lingers on in the Midwest, everyone is looking for ways to make a real difference in the fight to slow climate change.

There have been years with a dearth of rainfall comparable to the current drought, says Paul Rogers for McClatchy, but the combination of high temperatures and low precipitation is what makes the current drought really stand out.

And it would cost $ US 1 trillion a year or more — an incredibly expensive way to make no meaningful difference to a potential increase in flooding and droughts at the end of the century.

This year is down because of the drought in the west but a year ago you could have made a similar claim for SE Australia.

A few more years of that SW US drought, a few more big hurricanes hitting cities — how much would it take to panic Americans into making climate change a high priority?

Since the five million tonnes of CO2 pumped out by the Amazon in 2005 places the rainforest almost level with the level of man - made emissions produced by the whole of the United States in the same year, the team have warned that should extreme droughts become more frequent, then the days of mankind being able to rely on the rainforest to soak up greenhouse gases will soon be at an end.

Indeed, it is now believed that even less rain fell over the 5.3 million square kilometres of the Amazon in 2010, potentially making last year's drought the worst on record.

By any measure, the current California drought is severe, to the degree that Governor Brown made an emergency drought declaration almost a year ago, state and federal water agencies have been forced to greatly cut back deliveries of water to cities and farms from dangerously depleted rivers and reservoirs, and local utilities are asking customers for a mix of voluntary and sometimes mandatory water - use reductions.

Comparatively, in this three - year drought period, hydropower made up less than 12 percent of total California electricity generation.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.

It is also widely agreed that the world has seen a spate of extreme heat events in recent years, such as the 2011 Texas heat wave and drought and the deadly 2010 heat wave in Russia, and that global warming made some of these events more likely to occur and more severe.

Shifts towards water - lean renewables and energy efficiency in recent years have helped to decouple the dependence of the state's power sector on water sources, making us less vulnerable to the drought - induced disruptions that are plaguing power systems around the world.

We are afraid that four (possibly eight) years of denial and delay might commit the planet to not just feet, but yards, of sea level rise, massive coastal flooding (made worse by more frequent Katrina and Sandy - like storms), historic deluges, and summer after summer of devastating heat and drought across the country.

If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail - spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.»

In fact, at least one expert, Lynn Ingram, a geography professor at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks the drought could persist for a decade or more, making it one of the worst in the past 500 years.

«One possible explanation is that these plants rapidly invest in the production of new structures but with a cost of non-structural carbon reserves that could make them vulnerable to stressful conditions (i.e. drought events) in the following year,» wrote Vargas in his paper in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).

«Apple began working with an arborist years ago to source trees, including varieties that once made up the bountiful orchards of Silicon Valley; more than 9,000, many of them drought - resistant, will have been planted by the time the campus is finished.