Somalia was worst hit by the extreme drought in 2011 that affected more than 13 million people across the Horn of Africa.
California's problems will be aggravated, the report said, by extreme drought conditions in the Pacific Northwest.
Aggravating the situation in California is an extreme drought in the Pacific Northwest, which is expected to reduce hydroelectric power generation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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