Droughts

ESPN. com's Chad Millman asked Dave Staley from sportsbook. com to calculate odds on which team would break the title droughts for a bunch of long-suffering cities, including D.C. Sportsbook. com is actually taking action on these odds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I guess I knew that really, we get what they call droughts here and a flooding rain doesn't do anything to end the drought. ❋ Glenda Larke (2009)

The Aggies endured profound inconsistency, often slogging through lengthy shooting droughts from the field in games and never winning more than two contests in a row. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are no long term US trends in droughts or wet weather, nor in global cyclonic activity, nor in US tornadoes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Increased mortality from droughts is due to increased human and animal populations and to pastoralists clustering around boreholes and feeding stations (NGOs are partly responsible for the latter). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wide swaths of the world, from Australia to Texas, are in droughts that may be the beginning of permanent desertification. ❋ Unknown (2009)

BTW last year the BBC were telling us that Australia was headed for terrible long term droughts and how farming would suffer as a result of long term drought, ooops! ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We're already seeing changes ... the number of severe storms and droughts is increasing." ❋ Unknown (2006)

But as the fire threat grows — thanks to short-term droughts, the longer-range threats of global warming and a vast expansion of new homes built next to flammable wild lands — some wonder whether federal fire officials have the right mix of air power to fight the menace. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These findings suggest that Amazon forests, though threatened by human-caused deforestation, fire, and possibly by more severe long-term droughts, may be more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sure, expensive oil will cause serious economic problems, but so will rising oceans, long-term droughts, tsunamis, and so forth. ❋ Nancy Jane Moore (2006)

Ummenhofer et al. claims south-west australia droughts are a conseguence of indian ocean (the lack of negative IOD precede long term droughts), warmer temperature amplified PDSI response this time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, there is already a continent in the southern hemisphere somewhere which is suffering severe long-term droughts, heat waves, and fire seasons, likely exaberated by AGW. ❋ Unknown (2009)