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Category Archives: Disasters
Drought and the Food Supply
Lesk, C. January 7, 2016. Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature. Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries with the greatest impact … Continue reading
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History of Drought in America since 1899 – Worst ever now
The dust bowls of the 1950s were worse than the famous dust bowls of the Great Depression. The conditions for a new dust bowl are happening again, only this time we’ve cut down the trees so that 27 ton tractors … Continue reading
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Floods and water-borne disease
Our clean water infrastructure built a century ago is rusting and eroding apart, making the invasion of disease causing micro-organisms during floods even more likely. excerpt from Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us … Continue reading
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Colder winters
Brahic, C. 7 Feb 2012. Melting Sea Ice could trigger colder winters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Cold winters in Europe and North America may be due to declining sea ice, which warms the arctic air blowing cold … Continue reading
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Wildfire
Evans, E. July 26, 2016. Fire seasons are becoming hotter, drier and longer. Los Angeles Times. Over 29,000 wildfires have scorched more than 2.6 million acres of land already this year. Last year’s fire season was the most severe on … Continue reading
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Drought affects Survival in many ways
Christian Parenti calls multiple crises “The Catastrophic Convergence” in “Tropic of Chaos, Climate change and the new geography of Violence”. The problem isn’t that calamities happen simultaneously, it’s that they compound and amplify one another. Obviously drought reduces agricultural production. … Continue reading