Sentence examples for more intense droughts from inspiring English sources

He painted a bleak picture of Earth's future, warning that rising levels of carbon dioxide could have calamitous effects, such as increased intensity of hurricanes, more intense droughts, and the drowning of coastal cities.

From rising sea levels to more severe storms and more intense droughts, climate change will present serious risks to, and create major opportunities for, nearly every industry.

While climate scientists foresee more intense droughts and storms, there is still uncertainty, and significant disagreement, over whether recent patterns can be attributed to global warming.

But in a troublesome twist, that world may also include more intense droughts, as the increased evaporation parches soils between occasional storms.

Already we are seeing the impact of climate change growing around the world, with more heatwaves, more record rainfall events and more intense droughts.

Theory suggests that a world warming up because of those gases will feature heavier rainstorms in summer, bigger snowstorms in winter, more intense droughts in at least some places and more record-breaking heat waves.

Although forest trees will face more intense drought stresses (in duration and intensity) with global warming, very few studies on the role of the cuticle in drought stress adaptation in these long-lived organisms have been so far reported.

The Climate Impacts report, from the multiagency United States Global Change Research Program, also projected more intense drought in the Southwest and more powerful Gulf Coast hurricanes because of warming.

Preparations can be made for more intense drought and wildfires.

Many of these places have already felt the sting of climate change, and residents want to protect their communities from even more intense drought, wildfires, storms, or other extreme weather events.

Heat waves are hotter, rainstorms more intense, and droughts drier.