These "bursts" and "breaks" in the monsoon cause floods and droughts that impact agriculture, river systems and infrastructure.
Because incremental production in these commodities is a multi-year endeavor, strikes, floods and droughts are major variables in near-term pricing.
Hit by floods and droughts, this year's sugar crop was a disaster.
The UK government's chief scientist has said that there is already enough CO2 in the atmosphere for there to be more floods and droughts over the next 25 years.
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Whatever happens with the weather, the Environment Agency expects that more and more people will be protected from floods and droughts thanks to water sharing between farmers, water transfer between water companies, and better management of leaks and demand.
These risks include hydrological extremes that can lead to floods and severe droughts.
The four classes of extremes -- high heat, heavy precipitation and floods, duration and intensity of droughts and extremes related to higher sea levels -- have changed in the last 50 years, Field said.
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When wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, droughts and other calamities destroy access to clean drinking water, the human consequences are almost immediate and enormous.
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"Failing to tackle it will lead to floods, droughts and natural disasters which can destroy poor people's lives as well as their livelihoods, " he said.
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We know that in continents like Africa, where women are responsible for 60-80% of food production, unpredictable growing seasons and increased incidence of droughts and floods place women, their families and their livelihoods at risk.
Australia is one of the world's worst per capita emitters of greenhouse gases and many believe recent droughts and floods are the result of man's destabilising influence on the climate, the BBC's Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.
On top of the effects of the warming trend come more frequent and extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and storms which directly cause death and injury and open the door to other serious health problems, according to WWF.
Climate change is changing precipitation patterns and intensity, increasing the incidence of droughts, floods, and erosion.
Central America, most of Africa, much of south Asia and northern China could all be hit by droughts, storms and floods and otherwise made miserable.
More heat in the atmosphere is likely to cause (and arguably is already causing) more extreme weather events, including intense heat, cold, droughts, floods, and storms.
Droughts, floods and other water-related phenomena are among the clearest signs of climate change.
Farmers across the country have faced droughts, floods and a long, cold winter in a little over 12 months.
Increased groundwater abstraction, for example, may be needed in areas with unsustainable or contaminated surface water resources caused by droughts and floods.
Meyrick Gough from the firm said it needed to plan for warnings of "extremes of weather" in the future after recent droughts and floods.
The Water Bill aims to make Britain's water supply "more resilient" in the face of increasing droughts and floods through the creation of a national water supply network.
The report reveals that although the risks of droughts and floods are clear, and investors are beginning to care more and more about water, corporate boardrooms continue to be slow to move.
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Such a change in temperature -- which many scientists believe is being caused by pollution trapping heat in the atmosphere -- would mean widespread droughts and floods and massive economic and natural damage, experts say.
People don't easily understand how a small sea level rise can result in bigger storm surges and coastal damage, or how slight changes in ocean temperatures can change global rainfall patterns, leading to droughts and floods with catastrophic economic and societal consequences.
To listen to the alarmists, floods, fires, droughts, hurricanes and blizzards are all the product of global warming.
It said that global warming was likely to exacerbate the problem, causing more droughts, heat waves and floods.
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