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Climate change is likely factor in Syria’s conflict
Climate change is likely factor in Syria’s conflict Researchers say climate change probably caused the savage drought that affected Syria nearly a decade ago − and helped to spark the country’s current civil war. LONDON, 2 March, 2015 – In a dire chain of cause and effect, the drought that devastated parts of Syria from 2006 to […]
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit?
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit? Californians have been enjoying summer weather in the dead of winter, but the downside is that unseasonably warm temperatures could threaten many of our favorite foods. The state experienced its warmest winter on record last year, and according to current reports, this year could shape up to be another record breaker, compounded […]
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it. But the primary way we will experience climate change is through the water cycle – through droughts, floods, depleted rivers, shrinking reservoirs, dried-out soils, melting glaciers, loss of snowpack […]
Starved for Energy, Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis
Starved for Energy, Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week. A combination of global climate change and local waste and mismanagement have led to an alarmingly rapid depletion of Pakistan’s […]
US ‘at risk of mega-drought future’
US ‘at risk of mega-drought future’ The American south-west and central plains could be on course for super-droughts the like of which they have not witnessed in over a 1,000 years. Places like California are already facing very dry conditions, but these are quite gentle compared with some periods in the 12th and 13th Centuries. […]
Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes
Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes The same loopy weather patterns directing California’s ongoing drought and last year’s deep freeze across the East Coast may also change how often tornadoes strike the southeastern United States, a new modeling study finds. Researchers examined how global warming will affect severe weather during the heart of tornado season […]
Lessons from a California drought
Lessons from a California drought Rain finally arrived in California this past December with a series of storms dumping deluges across the state. So much rain fell that localised flooding and landslides were a concern. Whether this means that the three-year drought, which stands to be the driest “in over a millennium” is breaking, however, is […]
For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble
For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble With record drought and warming waters due to climate change, scientists are concerned that the future for Chinook salmon — a critical part of the state’s fishing industry — is in jeopardy in California. by alastair bland Gushing downpours finally arrived in California last month, when December […]
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain? Walk the glaring streets of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on a sun-soaked afternoon in a drought year, the dry, brush-covered mountains rising behind you, and it can be easy to feel that you’re in arid country. “Beneath this building, beneath […]
Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West | Peak Prosperity
Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West | Peak Prosperity. 2014 saw the extension of a historic drought across the US West. Croplands withered or were fully abandoned. Water rationing was enforced. Well tables dropped. The price of many vegetables and meats have skyrocketed. But the past month has seen a […]
Broken Hill’s water to run out by August 2015 amid major drought – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Broken Hill’s water to run out by August 2015 amid major drought – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Drilling work has started in Broken Hill in far west New South Wales to find an emergency water supply for the drought-stricken town. The iconic mining city is due to run out of good quality water by […]
A Coming California Earthquake? | Armstrong Economics
A Coming California Earthquake? | Armstrong Economics. California’s Drought Ranks Worst in at Least 1,200 Years. The flooding that is taking place warns of something else. The major earthquakes correlate to these periods of extreme drought and then extreme rainfall. That may place added street on the fault lines. We warned last April that there […]
California’s ‘Hot Drought’ Ranks Worst in at Least 1,200 Years – Bloomberg
California’s ‘Hot Drought’ Ranks Worst in at Least 1,200 Years – Bloomberg. Record rains fell in California this week. They’re not enough to change the course of what scientists are now calling the region’s worst drought in at least 1,200 years. Just how bad has California’s drought been? Modern measurements already showed it’s been drier […]
What Will Weather Do in 2015? Forecasters Say El Nino Looms – Bloomberg
What Will Weather Do in 2015? Forecasters Say El Nino Looms – Bloomberg. Forecasters in Australia and New Zealand warned El Nino may soon be back, reviving concern that the weather pattern that can bring drought to parts of Asia and rains to South America may return for the first time since 2010. Tropical Pacific temperatures have […]
Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit — Global Issues
Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit — Global Issues. Climate change already threatens water supplies for agriculture due to the reduction in the availability of fresh water, which is expected to be aggravated over the next decades. It also causes drought, torrential rainfall, flooding and a rise in the sea […]
