• Somalia was worst hit by the extreme drought in 2011 that affected more than 13 million people across the Horn of Africa.

    BBC: Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people'

  • California's problems will be aggravated, the report said, by extreme drought conditions in the Pacific Northwest.

    CNN: graphic

  • Aggravating the situation in California is an extreme drought in the Pacific Northwest, which is expected to reduce hydroelectric power generation.

    CNN: graphic

  • An uneven swath from northern to southwestern Colorado has severe drought conditions, while the rest of the state has either extreme or exceptional drought conditions.

    MSN: Despite snow, Colorado's drought outlook uncertain

  • Among those events exacerbated by climate change were heat waves in Texas and Oklahoma, the East African drought and extreme temperatures in Europe and England.

    CNN: Extreme weather and a changing climate

  • Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.

    CNN: Six degrees of devastation

  • Moreover, extreme drought and heat are precisely the impacts scientists tell us we can expect to see more of in the U.S. Southwest in a warming world.

    FORBES: Economists Urge Honest Accounting of Carbon's True Costs

  • And not only were the same people leading the charge, but they were naming the same alleged cause (human industrial activity) and the same alleged consequences (more drought, extreme weather, crop failures, etc.).

    FORBES: Global Warming Alarmism Continues To Backfire

  • Global food prices have jumped in recent months due to volatile and extreme weather conditions, particularly due to a drought in the US and a heat wave in some parts of Eastern Europe.

    BBC: Man with bananas

  • But there is - the way to interpret this I think is that there is a discernible influence on all of these events, of global warming nowadays, and it's effecting drought, it's effecting extreme rainfall events in particular around the world.

    NPR: Can Climate Change Explain Odd Weather?

  • As I wrote several months ago, the media did the same thing with the hot summer, arguing frequently that this recent hot dry summer proved a trend for extreme temperatures, drought, and forest fires.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The intelligence assessment found Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to warming-related drought, flooding, extreme weather and hunger, Fingar said.

    NPR: Linking Climate Change, National Security

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