Droughts
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University, which I direct, recently completed a global assessment of several kinds of natural hazards, such as
droughts
, earthquakes, and floods, in partnership with the World Bank.
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Heatwaves and
droughts
on one hand, directly from the warming, but also, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor with its latent energy, rainfall will become in more extreme events.
An important impact, if global warming continues, will be on the breadbasket of our nation and the world, the Midwest and Great Plains, which are expected to become prone to extreme droughts, worse than the Dust Bowl, within just a few decades, if we let global warming continue.
And increasing intensity of
droughts
and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.
A lot of you, a lot of people have been watching the floods, the droughts, the storms, the fires.
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