Droughts: The End of the American West

Drought is one of the most expensive natural disasters and can last from several months to several years (US Dry Portal). Because of famine and floods, droughts are considered one of the three major threats to the population (O'Brien). Droughts are defined as abnormally long periods, and lack of continuous precipitation leads to serious problems. Several factors that influence the severity of drought are water shortage, length, size, drought location (drought).

It is difficult to identify clear global trends, but droughts occur more frequently in certain parts of the world, such as the Southwestern United States, Mediterranean Europe, and West Africa. Drought seems to be less frequent in other parts of the world like the Midwest and the northwest of Australia. So far, there are still some discussions on how global warming affects droughts.

High wind, high temperature, and a wide range of drought. These extreme situations are causing two fires in California, and more are the majority of fires throughout the western United States, northern and western Europe. William Braham and Michael Mann at the State University of Pennsylvania talk about ways in which climate change can cause danger and destruction. Now, there are a couple of other things that I think is happening. All of these events around the Northern Hemisphere, extreme floods, droughts, heat waves, wild fires are the reason such consistency is the fact that these weather systems remain in place and remain stationary .

It seems that unfortunate worldwide temperature records like every year are left annually. Hurricane Maria, Illum and Harvey, after a very destructive wildfire season in the western US and severe drought in South Africa, one problem is difficult to escape: Is the climate crisis making the weather more extreme? You can tell stories about climate crisis and its solution every day, big or small. Sometimes, for our climate reality leader, this is a question of whether it is a campaign or achievement, a comment, a letter to the editor, or even whether a television interview or a speech broadly disseminates information, the media It means to be involved.

One of the biggest and most common effects of global climate change is drought. As the climate becomes warmer and the precipitation does not change, the possibility of drought will be greater. These droughts do not occur anywhere, but where it is, there is a possibility that it will be much more serious than before. ForestGEO has helped to discover that it is a bigger and older tree - those with the highest carbon content often suffer more when their local ecosystem is depleted. That's because it is more difficult to raise the water to a higher altitude. Crowns of big trees will also be higher and higher, so they will be affected by the high temperature of the sun, high wind speed and low humidity. Small trees are protected by surrounding trees