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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 19, 2007 ----------- Mexico, U.S. suffer as Rio Grande sucked dry The eastern border region is slowly heading toward a water crisis. Under a 1944 treaty, Mexico is required to transfer water to the United States every five years from the two dams the countries share on the Texas border. For farmers in Tamaulipas, that means ruined harvests and hardship every time the transfer is made. The landscape is now dotted with abandoned farms and villages unable to enjoy the artificial irrigation that is central to agriculture in a desert region with sporadic rains. Water is a scarce commodity across the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) U.S.-Mexico border, with the fight over the Rio Grande mirrored in the west by competition for the Colorado River, which is reduced to a trickle by the time it reaches its delta in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Springs across southern Texas have run dry as aquifers are pumped for water. Most could be exhausted within two decades. Historically, the Rio Grande, the fifth-longest river in the United States, flowed continuously from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. But since the 1900s, dams, channelization and overexploitation have endangered its survival. "The Rio Grande is one of the most stressed river basins in the world and water use is already at its limit," said Casey Walsh, a water specialist The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page November 12, 2007 ----------- La Nina caused Drought Persists "After eight very dry years on the Colorado River watershed and a record-breaking dry winter in Southern California in 2006-2007, the situation in the American Southwest is dangerously dry," said oceanographer Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This La Nina could deepen the drought in the already parched Southwest and Southeast United States." Patzert and other scientists say La Nina contributed to the conditions that fueled Southern California's recent deadly wildfires. A La Nina situation often follows an El Nino episode and is essentially the opposite of an El Nino condition. During a La Nina, trade winds are stronger than normal, and the cold water that normally exists along the coast of South America extends to the central equatorial Pacific. A La Nina changes global weather patterns and is associated with less moisture in the air, resulting in less rain along the coasts of North and South America, the equator and in the far Western Pacific The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page October 19 , 2007 --------- Drought in West and Southeast spreads to Mid-Atlantic Confirming what many farmers, boaters and others already knew, the government reported Tuesday that the drought parching much of the West and Southeast spread into the Mid-Atlantic area in September. Water levels at Lake Carter, about 90 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia, are at record lows. At the end of September about 43 percent of the contiguous United States was in moderate to extreme drought, the National Climate Data Center said. Worldwide, meanwhile, the agency said the year to date has been the warmest on record for land. It has been the seventh warmest year so far over the oceans, working out to the fourth warmest overall worldwide. But drought is probably the greatest concern in many parts of the country and the year to date has been the driest on record for Tennessee and North Carolina. The eastern seaboard from Maine to the Carolinas and across parts of Florida was unusually dry in September, NCDC said. And the September dryness extended across the Ohio Valley and into the southern Great Lakes. The agency, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said drier-than-normal weather was also experienced in September across parts of the Pacific Northwest and northern Plains. Drought-related conditions included: • As of September 25, Pasadena, California, experienced its driest year since records began in 1878. Many California communities imposed water use restrictions. • The Great Lakes, which together make up about 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water, have been in decline since the late 1990s. Lakes Huron and Michigan were about two feet below their long-term average levels, while Lake Superior was about 20 inches off, Lake Ontario 7 inches below and Lake Erie a few inches down. • Maryland and Pennsylvania had about half of their counties under a drought watch. Many areas in upstate New York reported record low reservoir levels and dried-up wells and farm ponds. • Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, has been operating some of its coal plants at significantly reduced levels to avoid raising water temperatures in the Coosa, Black Warrior and Mobile rivers. • The Tennessee Valley Authority shut down Browns Ferry Unit II nuclear power plant due to inadequate stream flow. • At the end of September, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division declared a level four drought response across the northern third of the state, which prohibits most types of outdoor residential water use. Video Watch drought conditions in Georgia The report said that while September was only the eighth warmest month on record for the United States, it was still hot enough to break 1,000 daily high records across the country. With the worldwide warming, the extent of Arctic Sea ice reached its lowest amount in September since satellite measurements began in 1979, shattering the previous record low set in 2005. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page August 2, 2007 ----------------- Drought emergency on Greek isles GREECE overnight declared a state of emergency on the Cyclades islands, including the popular holiday destinations of Mykonos and Santorini, because of water shortages caused by a drought and heatwave. The interior ministry said it took the decision, which amounts to little more than an administrative procedure, to force officials to speed up work on improving water supplies. The mayor of the island of Kimolos warned the island was without water and the situation was unlikely to improve any time soon. "We need help. There has been no water on the island since yesterday," Mayor Theodoros Maganiotis told state TV. ....................... Drought forces water rationing in Turkish capital Ankara residents were gearing up Tuesday for tight water rationing after months of exceptionally dry weather depleted the capital city's reservoirs. From midnight Tuesday, under a municipal plan that divides the city of nearly four million into two, each section will alternately face 48-hour-long water cuts. The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Posted December 7, 2006 ---------------------------------- THE END TIMES - THE LAST DAYS - ARE UPON THE EARTH! MATTHEW 24:21 "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." --- CLICK HERE to see what it will be like for the unsaved and for a prayer of salvation! THIS IS NO GAME! - THIS IS THE REAL THING! - DO NOT WAIT! JESUS IS COMING! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Drought devastates Australian crops The worst drought in a century has slashed Australia's winter crop by an estimated 62 percent and the summer crop is likely to be down 33 percent, the official rural forecaster said Tuesday. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Abare) estimated grains production for the recently completed southern winter dropped to a 10-year low of 15.5 million tonnes. "It was the driest August to October period since 1900 across many cropping regions of Australia," Abare executive director Phillip Glyde said. "When combined with some of the highest mean maximum temperatures on record, this resulted in a significant decline in winter crop production and has placed summer crops in an uncertain position." The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth! Posted September 1, 2006 ---------------------------------- Blistering Drought Ravages Farmland on Plains MITCHELL, S.D. - With parts of South Dakota at its epicenter, a severe drought has slowly sizzled a large swath of the Plains States, leaving farmers and ranchers with conditions that they compare to those of the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. The drought has led to rare and desperate measures. Shrunken sunflower plants, normally valuable for seeds and oil, are being used as a makeshift feed for livestock. Despite soaring fuel costs, some cattle owners are hauling herds hundreds of miles to healthier feedlots. And many ranchers are pouring water into "dugouts" - natural watering holes - because so many of them (up to 90 percent in South Dakota, by one reliable estimate) have gone dry. ================ Water Shortage/drought shuts Rainforest tourist town Down CANADA - TOFINO, British Columbia - Hotels, resorts and other businesses in this burgeoning rainforest tourist town on Vancouver Island have been told to shut down because of a water shortage. Because of high demand and very little rain since July, the town's main reservoir is so depleted there might not be enough water to fight a fire, Mayor John Fraser said . The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth! Posted February 23, 2006 ---------------------------------- Drought may worsen in US Southwest, Plains: NOAA Drought that has shriveled crops and sparked fires in bone-dry forests will persist and could even worsen across the Southwest and central and southern Plains through at least June, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its spring weather forecast that these regions, which have already seen thousands of acres go up in flames, should brace for a "significant" wildfire season in 2006 as conditions become more severe. "We need to monitor this drought situation very closely," said David Johnson, director of NOAA's National Weather Service division. The return of La Nina, an unusual cooling of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures which is the flip side of El Nino, could make the Atlantic tropical storm season especially dangerous. Indeed, some forecasters have already warned that the number of storms may top the record set just last year. La Nina developed during the winter and has contributed to the dryness plaguing much of the southern United States. "It's showing no signs of declining...and the odds that it's going to last into late summer have gone up," said Ed O'Lenic, meteorologist with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. He said La Nina tends to enhance weather "favorable to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic." Last year was the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record, with 27 named storms and 15 hurricanes. NOAA previously warned that the hurricane season -- which typically peaks between August 1 and late October -- could be active again in 2006. SEVERE DROUGHT TO LINGER Severe drought is blanketing the Southwest into the southern Plains and northward into Kansas. Heavy rains have eased dryness for now in Illinois, Iowa and extending south to Arkansas. But weather forecasters said "ongoing drought concerns may linger." A scarcity of rain since last fall has parched hard red winter wheat and dried up stock ponds and pastures in the southern Plains. A storm expected to drop up to 2.5 inches of rain this weekend in the Great Plains could be too late to save the winter wheat crop, government forecasters said. "It kind of remains to be seen how much recovery there will be in wheat. Some of that wheat is getting to...frankly the point of no return" said Brad Rippey, a USDA meteorologist. "But for just about everything else including pre-planting moisture for summer crops, pasture revival, wildfire control, the rain is nothing but good," he added. Improved soil moisture will bode well for U.S. soft red winter areas while providing much-needed relief for corn and soybean crops later this spring. Spring also will bring above normal temperatures for the Southwest eastward into the Southeast with cooler-than-normal conditions for the northern Plains and northern Rockies. Below-normal precipitation is expected for much of the central and southern Plains, as well as the Southeast and Gulf Coast. Above normal precipitation is favored across the northern Plains and Great Lakes region. Posted February 20, 2006 ---------------------------------- THE END TIMES - THE LAST DAYS - ARE UPON THE EARTH! MATTHEW 24:21 "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." --- CLICK HERE to see what it will be like for the unsaved and for a prayer of salvation! THIS IS NO GAME! - THIS IS THE REAL THING! - DO NOT WAIT! JESUS IS COMING! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Worst drought to hit eastern Africa in decades CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PROPHECY FULFILLMENT WAJIR, Kenya Halima Mohamed is living through the worst drought to hit eastern Africa in decades. Yet when a large pool of fresh water appeared before her the other day in the middle of the scorching earth, this thirsty woman with eight thirsty children did something remarkable: She did not move. The water, delivered twice a week in a tanker truck to remote settlements in northeastern Kenya, is not enough to supply Mohamed's community of 6,000 people. Community elders divide it up, requiring suffering souls like her to wait for their names to be called before they can approach the pool and scoop out enough to fill a jug holding 20 liters, or a little more than 5 gallons. It looked like a mirage, so much water in the middle of the hot sand. And too soon, it was gone; even the remaining drops had dried up like all the land around. A sustained period with little or no rain, along with a lack of government planning, are widely blamed for this humanitarian crisis, which is affecting a vast swath from northern Kenya across Ethiopia and Somalia to Djibouti. Dozens of people have died amid the merciless heat and lack of food and water since December, aid workers and hospital officials say, although the full death toll remains unclear. Animals are dying in huge numbers, their rotting carcasses littering the landscape and devastating the local economy. Aid workers estimate that 70 percent of the 260,000 cows in Kenya's Wajir district, near the border with Somalia, have died. Goats and sheep also are dying. Even camels, known for their ability to endure the most rugged of conditions, are dropping in the sand. The relatively few wells and boreholes in the region are now nowhere near the tiny patches of vegetation that animals have left to feed on. So families are faced with the awful choice of allowing their animals, which are their life savings, to starve to death or to die of thirst. Aid organizations are working to prevent the nomadic people in the region from suffering similar fates. Oxfam, which took reporters on a tour of the region this week, is making water deliveries to two dozen remote sites in Kenya, providing at least some relief. But two 20-liter containers a week is nowhere enough for an individual, never mind a family. It amounts to about three glasses of water a person a day for drinking, cooking and washing. The usual allotment in refugee camps is 15 liters a person a day. Oxfam's initial deliveries were chaotic affairs, as residents rushed toward the water with their jugs in hand, desperate to get their share. But most people now are going along with the more organized approach. "I don't know if I'll get any," Mohamed said, looking frail, as she stood toward the end of a long line. If no water remains when it is her turn, Mohamed said, she would ask her friends for some. They will share, she said, because next time they may be the ones who come up empty. Waiting idly for water to come is not the custom here. Women, who have the job of collecting it, typically trek to faraway boreholes, where they fill plastic jugs, load up their animals and then head home again. But the animals are too weak for that now, the women say. The women are also too weak to make the trip, which is about 65 kilometers, or 40 miles, each way, they say. "Imagine that you are thirsty and you don't get water and you've left your children at home and they are starving," said Ubai Made, who moved ahead of some of the others in the line to get enough water for her infant daughter, who hung like a rag doll in her arms. Mohamed Daher, an Oxfam worker who was reading off the names, said it was difficult to get upset with such behavior. Just then, another one appeared, an old woman who was walking slowly toward the pool. "Hey," he yelled, signaling for one of the community leaders to intervene. "Sometimes they sneak in if they are thirsty," he said. "But most of them wait under the trees." Across the border in Somalia, the situation is equally dire. Families there are also surviving on two 20-liter jugs of water a week. It is so clearly insufficient, especially given temperatures of as much as 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), that some people have begun drinking their own urine to stay alive, aid workers said. "People are not meeting their basic food and water needs," said Aydrus Daar, a Kenyan aide worker who recently participated in an Oxfam-sponsored assessment of southern Somalia. "The situation is bad." Buying water from private vendors is not a realistic option, Daar said, because the price has soared from about three cents for a 20-liter jug in normal times to about a dollar, more than most people around here earn in a day. Desperate to relieve their thirst, people are now walking for hours to collect water, aide workers said, because nearby water sources are now nothing more than cracked earth. Posted October 5, 2005 ---------------------------------- Five million face death as famine grips Malawi Famine is once again stalking Africa's poorest nations as new figures released on Friday show that the food crisis in Malawi is much worse than anticipated. Aid agencies now say that at least five million people face starvation this winter. The new figures are an increase of nearly a million on what agencies had previously expected in Malawi, a country in the grip of a severe drought and hamstrung by HIV/Aids. The food crisis here is replicated in five other southern African countries - more than 12 million people face chronic shortages between now and the spring harvest. In Malawi, the ministry of health released data indicating that hunger across the country was rocketing. Numerous food distribution centers in the country's south, the worst affected area, have also recorded large increases in the number of people asking for food who were not previously registered for assistance. Thousands of hungry Malawians have been trying to get rations on the monthly distribution days. Many report they are only eating one meal a day or less. The World Food Program has been warning of the imminent food crisis threatening southern Africa for the past six months. But even they have been taken by surprise by the emerging scale of the problem. 'Rising maize prices and malnutrition rates now mean that more people than before will need help to survive the lean season,' said Mike Sackett, WFP regional director for southern Africa. Food prices that usually rise from December up to the March/April harvest - when maize is scarcest and people have eaten their own reserves - have risen to levels not normally seen until January. 'Before this turn of events we already had a massive shortage of funds, so it's critical that donors redouble their efforts to ensure no one starves,' Sackett said. Thousands of desperate Malawians turned up at the Mankhokwe food distribution station in the Nsange district last week. Although food aid has been provided for those identified as in need by the Village Relief Committees, WFP officials say a funding shortfall of at least $70 million will have to be met by donors if the program is to be effective until the next harvest. 'It can take up to four months to move food from abroad to the region so now it is crucial we receive cash contributions so we can buy food locally,' urged the WFP's Mike Huggins. Weak from hunger and from standing beneath the blistering sun, Maria Binda told The Observer of her bleak future. 'I have nothing, no food or crops. Two of my children are dead from disease and my remaining child is very hungry. I need the food,' she said, pointing at the bags of maize stacked on top of each other at the warehouse inside the fenced compound. The center is operated by the non-governmental organization, Goal, which ensures 50kg bags of maize are given to those in need. In the greater Nsange district's 18 other feeding centers, aid was provided for nearly 120,000 people in September and the numbers are rapidly rising. Maria described how she was forced to harvest water lily tubers from the crocodile-infested Shire river as a means of feeding herself and her child. The small bulbs have little nutritional value, but in times of extreme need locals pound them into a porridge-like substance that has a bitter taste. 'The tubers are difficult to get as you must follow the stem of the lily down to the bottom, and you can only get one or two at a time as you run out of breath. You have to get someone to watch out for crocodiles and hippos, they are so dangerous. 'Two of my neighbors were taken [by crocodiles] last month, but without food this is what we have to do.' The crisis affecting the region has been described as 'a new type of food crisis', one significantly different from that which gripped Niger and its neighboring countries in West Africa over the summer. The scenario has been labeled a 'triple threat'- where the drought problem is compounded by poor institutional infrastructure and the HIV/Aids epidemic. Nearly 15 per cent - 1.9 million people - of Malawi's adults have HIV or Aids. It has been estimated that around 80,000 will die from Aids this year alone and another 110,000 will be infected with the HIV virus. Many of those being infected are young men and women who, when healthy, would be able to tend to their small plots of land. However, because of the widespread illness, many people are not even attempting to grow food. Unlike the Niger government's refusal to accept the scale of the problem affecting its people, the Malawi Prime Minister Dr Bingu wa Mutharika has gone to the UN to explain his country's plight. Newly appointed Agriculture Minister Uladi B Mussa went as far as to say that if donors don't come through with the money then 'hundreds of thousands of Malawians will die'. 'We are not just asking for handouts. Malawians believe you must try to help yourself before you can ask anyone else and the people have contributed around 70m Malawian Kwacha (nearly £300,000) to the Feed the Nation Fund. 'But at this stage we need help and if there was a country on the moon we would accept assistance from it,' he said. As always, the very young have been the hardest hit. Data compiled by Malawi's Health Ministry show that more than 1,000 acutely malnourished children were admitted to hospitals across the country in August, compared to 775 children in the same month last year. However, the starkest difference between this year and last year is that there was more food available in villages 12 months ago. In 76 nutrition rehabilitation units in the northern, central and southern regions, the number of admissions rose 15 per cent, 41 per cent, and 24 per cent respectively in August this year compared with last August. James Juga will be one of the babies making up the next set of child hunger statistics to be released by the Malawian Health Ministry. The 18-month-old lost his mother to HIV/Aids last Saturday; he is severely malnourished and has been infected by the virus. His despairing grandmother took him to the small St Montfort Hospital near Nchalo village in the hope that his ailing body could be resuscitated. 'I am old so I cannot work. This is his only chance,' she said. At the Fatima Trinity Hospital in the south of the Nsange district the situation is the same. Here Cecelia Mota and her one-year-old have come for assistance. When her husband took a second wife, Cecelia said he was unable to feed both families. 'He threw us out. I moved back to my parents but they have no food because of the bad harvest. There is no hope for me. We will both die if we leave here,' she said. Although 85 per cent of Malawians earn their living through subsistence farming only 20,000 hectares out of 9.6m hectares of agricultural land is irrigated. A massive increase in the amount of irrigated land is being hailed by the Malawian government and NGOs operating in the country as the main solution to combating the affects of drought. 'The government is fed up with rain-fed farming; we must move to irrigating the land as we have a large lake and rivers that can provide for this,' said Mussa. Looking at the weather predictions for next year it does appear to be the most viable option. According to long-range forecasts, a below normal rainfall across the southern half of Malawi is likely over the coming year. Posted September 2, 2005 ---------------------------------- Hot, dry, thirsty THE global area affected by drought has doubled, according to Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. The planet was 10 to 15 per cent in drought in the 1970s; by 2002, the figure had risen to about 30percent. Widespread drying has occurred across much of Europe and Asia, Canada, western and southern Africa and eastern Australia. Most of eastern Australia remains drought affected. Recent rains have lifted spirits but done nothing to replenish the low water level in dams and rivers. Spain is experiencing its worst drought in 30 years. Much of Portugal is officially in drought and both countries have been seared by bushfires. West and southwest France are dry. Italy and central Greece are now also officially drought stricken. Britain's southeast has endured its driest year since 1976. The European Commission is forecasting this year's cereal crop to be at least 28 million tons below last year's harvest, a fall of 10per cent, because of dry conditions and high temperatures. Irrigation restrictions will reduce sugar beet and potato crops. Australia isn't alone in suffering water restrictions either. Around Brussels, the Belgian capital, tap water cannot be used to water gardens, wash cars or fill swimming pools. In 10 local government areas the water supply has failed altogether and tankers are trucking in drinking water. In Sussex, gardeners have been banned from using hoses after winter brought only 60 per cent of the average rainfall to southeast England. Across the Mediterranean, drought has halved Morocco's economic growth. Much of Africa - Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe - has been affected by dry weather that will make 28 million Africans reliant on food aid. Parts of southern China have been suffering from severe drought, reportedly the worst in 50 years. Reservoirs have dried, hydropower has been cut and crops have failed. The drinking water supply to more than seven million people is reported to be affected. Drought in the US Midwest has left riverboats on the Ohio River in Illinois high and dry. Parts of the Mississippi are also dry, reduced to sandbars and threatening the construction industry, which still relies on river transport. In Iowa, the corn harvest will fall by 12 per cent this year. Almost half of the increase in drying across the world is attributable to rising temperatures, rather than decreases in rainfall or snowfall; the world's surface air temperature increased by an average 0.6C during the 20th century. This team found a general drying trend beginning in the '70s. "What has happened is there is a bit more precipitation going on over ocean than over land, so there is a redistribution." Increased temperatures had made the atmosphere thirstier. "It increases the evaporation and that evaporation factor increases drying, so it makes any droughts that would have otherwise occurred a bit worse than they ordinarily would be, and it also makes the likelihood of heat-waves greater." Global warming cannot be blamed for causing droughts. "But what it is doing is making them a bit more intense, longer lasting, the heat waves a bit greater, so it is exacerbating the conditions that might have occurred anyway." Drought is the most damaging of all natural disasters. Each year it causes millions of deaths and costs billions of dollars in damages. The drying of key areas of the planet poses huge problems for future food security, according to Roger Stone, science manager, climate and system technologies, at the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. Stone says the markets are now focusing on this problem. "We are looking at what might happen to commodity trading and so on if some areas suffer more than others, or some areas do better than others." The most recent El Nino drought, in 2002-03, dragged Australia's gross domestic product down by 1 percentage point as gross agricultural product fell by $7.36 billion, or 28.5 per cent. Blair Trewin, from Australia's National Climate Center, says El Ninos affect a huge area. "Areas which are characteristically drier than normal during El Ninos are eastern Australia and the equatorial areas to the north of Australia, that is: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and islands around there. India tends to be drier and southern Africa tends to be drier, although a bit less reliably." Trewin says areas that tend to be wetter than normal during El Nino years - the west coast of South America, the Californian coast, northwest Mexico and the southeast of the US - tend to be drier during La Nina events. Arguably the worst El Nino event occurred in 1877, when more than nine million people died in China and eight million in India. Neville Nicholls, from the Bureau of Meteorology Research Center in Melbourne, says it was during this drought that the then head of the India Meteorological Department, Henry Blandford, noticed atmospheric pressures were higher than usual over India, and asked other British Empire meteorologists for their observations. In South Australia, the then government meteorologist, Charles Todd, observed that not only was Australia also in drought, but Australian meteorological pressures were also high. It was the first step to identifying El Nino. The Pacific Ocean is a massive heat bank: the top 30cm-40cm of the ocean contains as much heat as the entire atmosphere, and the temperature can vary across the ocean by as much as 8C. When the hotter waters of the Pacific move, they act as a huge thermal driving force. During an El Nino event, warm water in the Pacific flows towards South America. Clouds move from northern Australia into the central Pacific. The weather systems to the south, the depressions and cold fronts that normally bring rain to southeast Australia, move further to the south. Because there are fewer rain-bearing systems, there is less rainfall. The opposite occurs during a La Nina. The warm ocean currents move to Australia's side of the Pacific. Winds blow west, picking up moisture from the warm ocean. Trewin says during the period 1950 to 1980, "you had a phase when La Ninas were very frequent and El Ninos relatively rare. Since the '80s we have switched back to El Ninos being quite common and La Ninas relatively rare." The result has been more frequent drought in Australia and the other areas affected by El Nino. Trenberth says somewhere in the world is always in drought, and this has always been the case. "There is always drought in the US alone. It moves around and it varies in size, but it is hard to avoid when you have a good chunk of the country in the sub-tropics. "The Mediterranean countries have had a prolonged dry period which is related to an increase in westerlies and a shift in storm tracks. The storms are mainly moving a little farther northwards than they usually are, and that means it is generally wetter in Scandinavia and the northern parts of Europe, but it has been generally drier over southern Europe and even northern Africa." The National Climate Centre's Michael Coughlan says that from March 2002, Australia had its second driest year since 1890. Only 1946-47 was drier. It was, he says, the hottest autumn, winter and spring on record, with record evaporation. "A changing climate means that temperature [and hence evaporation] should no longer be ignored when determining drought," Coughlan argues. Trenberth thinks rainfall patterns have also changed and he is researching changes in the character of precipitation. "This relates to not just the amount but also the frequency, the duration, the intensity, the sequences. These factors also matter with regard to drought." He explains that an isolated heavy rainfall event could result in local flooding, but not much rain is soaking into the soils. "But if you have the same amount of water distributed a little bit each day, every day of the month, then none of it runs off, it soaks into the soils, and the plants love it. So you can end up in that situation with a hydrological drought [low water levels in rivers and dams] but the farmers are happy." Trenberth says there is a worldwide trend towards more intense rainfall events. "The changing character of precipitation is an important part of the process that is going on here." Drought is an inevitable part of life in Australia and most countries across the world. With global warming also placing more pressure on water supplies, the challenge of the future will be to live with what's available. Posted August 27, 2005 ---------------------------------- THE END TIMES - THE LAST DAYS - ARE UPON THE EARTH! MATTHEW 24:21 "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." --- CLICK HERE to see what it will be like for the unsaved and for a prayer of salvation! THIS IS NO GAME! - THIS IS THE REAL THING! - DO NOT WAIT! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Famine threat to 12 centuries of traditional nomadic life A NOMADIC way of life in western Africa that has lasted for 12 centuries is under threat because of drought and famine, Oxfam warned today. The aid agency said a recent survey of 3,500 people in part of southern Niger showed nomads had lost on average 70 per cent of their animals. "Food aid alone will not solve this crisis," Natasha Kofoworola Quist, Oxfam's regional director for West Africa, said in a statement released today. "The emergency response must go hand in hand with sustained assistance for Niger's nomads." Oxfam's survey and conclusions echoed reports from the area of herdsman, from the traditionally nomadic Tuareg and Fulani tribes committing suicide after losing the cattle they regard as their most precious possessions. Some have lost their entire herds. Others from the tribes known for taking great pride in being self-sufficient have spoken of the humiliation of being forced to depend on international relief agencies. "To these people, losing your animals is like losing your life savings," Ms Kofoworola Quist said. "Without their animals, they have no means of survival," she said. "Twelve centuries of nomadic culture are threatened with extinction if these people do not get long-term help to rebuild their livelihoods." Food is usually scarce in Niger and neighboring countries. A locust invasion last year followed by drought have made the problem even worse, particularly in Niger but also in Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. The Tuareg and Fulani live throughout the region, roaming in search of pasture for their cows. Posted August 26, 2005 ---------------------------------- Drought pushes Burkina Faso herders into poverty trap Goring the air with their horns and pawing the earth with their hooves, dozens of bony cattle file into a market in Burkina Faso to be sold under the anxious eyes of their owners. The frenzied haggling in the northeastern town of Dori is a sign not of roaring commerce, but desperation among Fulani herders struck by the same drought that has left millions hungry in neighbouring Niger and Mali. With their crops ruined because of failed rains, the herders are now being forced to sell their most precious commodity at prices that will barely raise enough to buy three days of grain for their hungry families. “There are far too many animals being sold at this market at the moment,” says Brahima Bokou, a market middleman. “If the year is good, then the people here don’t sell too many animals. This year, we have to sell each Friday, just to pay for cereal.” The food crises affecting parts of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Mauritania are partly the result of drought and locusts wrecking harvests in West African countries that rely on subsistence farming. But the herders’ plight reveals a more complex poverty trap in which a natural shock upsets finely balanced, loosely regulated markets, sending the most vulnerable people into a downward spiral from which they may never fully recover. The Fulani herders — nomads who form one of West Africa’s largest ethnic groups — suffered the first blow when drought and locusts hit their millet harvest, forcing them to sell livestock to buy food they would normally have grown themselves. The influx of cows onto the market created an excess of supply and drove prices down to 15,000 CFA francs ($28) for a cow that might have fetched 100,000 CFA francs ($187) last year. Even cows that did not succumb to the drought make a sorry sight at the market, their sunken flanks testimony to three months without grazing, further reducing their value. The World Food Programme (WFP) says herders in Burkina Faso lost an average of 23 per cent of their stock to drought and starvation and have had to sell a further 50 per cent to survive. Many simply cannot raise the money to feed themselves, leaving an estimated 945,000 people in need of food aid, of whom about half have received help, according to the WFP.
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