Other key fracking areas like New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are less obviously prone to drought, but climate models predict more frequent and longer heat waves during Northeast and Midwest summers, including severe drought in some regions (as well as more frequent flooding in spring).
Forest fires have been increasing in remote regions of North America during the past decade due to prolonged drought periods and climate variability.
Lakes and reservoirs provide a range of resource values, including drinking water, irrigation water, navigation, fisheries, tourism, recreation, flood and drought management, climate mediation, as well as having religious and historic values.
And when it comes back it's heated and it dehydrates the lakes and streams and furthers climate change drought.
Eking out a living is tough, and the vagaries of climate that bring drought or floods can easily wipe away in a few days the gains of many years.
These conflicts are taking place against the backdrop of an ongoing drought and the specter of continued climate change.
There was none as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought.
In southwest Australia years of drought, believed to be linked to climate change, have had a huge impact on rice production.
They need to recognize that climate change is fueling larger drought, wildfire and flooding losses and build this into their business models and underwriting policies.
Climate change and Australia's worst drought in a century are partly to blame.
"The continuing impact and heightened risk of drought in the South, as a consequence of climate change, highlight the importance of our emphasis on leakage management, water efficiency and demand management, " it said.
They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.
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While it may be hard to know exactly what role climate change has played in causing the drought, there is no doubt that these kinds of events are exactly what we expect to experience more frequently and with greater severity because of the changing climate.
The positive side of the Tearfund report is that simple measures to "climate-proof" water problems, both drought and flood, have proven to be very effective in some areas.
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Behind the record temperatures was a dome of high pressure over the center of the country, which combined with a powerful drought to create the scorching temperatures, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.
We need seeds and crops that can better withstand drought, combat new pests and weeds, and perhaps adjust to changes in climate and growing seasons.
Among those events exacerbated by climate change were heat waves in Texas and Oklahoma, the East African drought and extreme temperatures in Europe and England.
We must understand and adapt to a changing climate, including more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, drought and floods, and continued sea level rise.
Overleaf, we follow the fortunes of Homo sapiens sapiens around the Black and Mediterranean Seas through 30 000 years of a tumultuous history marked by sporadic earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, as well as more insidious hazards tied to a changing climate, such as flooding from glacier melt, gradual sea-level rise or prolonged drought.
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