How climate change spurs megadroughts
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The curious connection between the sky’s 'thirstiness' and the dry spell devastating the western U.S. The post How climate…
The curious connection between the sky’s 'thirstiness' and the dry spell devastating the western U.S. The post How climate…
On an afternoon in late June, the San Luis Reservoir — a 9-mile lake about an hour southeast of San Jose, California …
Climate scientists reconsider the meaning and implications of drought in light of a changing…
Huge decisions will be made in the next few years about who gets water from the shrinking Colorado River. Basin tribes are…
Climate change is already here. It’s not something that can simply be ignored by cable news or dismissed by sitting US senators…
As the Southwest faces booming populations and unrelenting drought, the Colorado River is in crisis, with too many demands on…
Some of the most destructive and tragic wildfires to hit California in the state's history are burning even now. Thanks to…
Rollbacks on federal environmental regulations show that the United States government values the profits of fossil fuel energy…
By Georgina Gustin5 September 2017(Inside Climate News) – Wildfires burned across hundreds of thousands of acres in the…
Drought and climate change have had serious impact on the Colarado river.
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert…
New studies warn that megadroughts and superstorms could become regular events in the US if burning fossil fuels continues.
A megadrought spanning several decades could be almost certain to hit the American Southwest this century if greenhouse gas…
As the American Southwest grows hotter, the risk of severe, long-lasting megadroughts rises, passing 90 percent this century if…
A megadrought spanning several decades could be almost certain to hit the American southwest this century if greenhouse gas…
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s bioRxiv preprint server hit a milestone these last few days with the posting of a preprint on…
As California considers some changes to its water-use rules, we look at the exact state of its historic drought.Continue…
The public, when contemplating global warming, includes those who question whether warming underlies the occurrence of extreme…
The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine issued a report, “Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the…
The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine issued a report, “Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the…
The end of 2015 was filled with climate change policy talk, as the Paris conference brought a rare ray of hope, driven in part…
Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Senior citizens of Counter-Earth, in kick-butt gear: What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … …
Scientists expect greenhouse gases to cause a historic dry period in the Great Plains this century
By Sasha Wright Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on August 10, 2015 On July 23, James Hansen and 16 co-author…
By Sasha Wright Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on August 10, 2015 On July 23, James Hansen and 16 co-author…
Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight man in a gay construction company. Strangely…
California in the Great Drought is once again Exhibit A, a living diorama of how the future is going to look for a lot of us.
An old saying among trend-mavens is that as California goes, so goes the nation. That means its devastating drought is a real…
Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight man in a gay construction company. Strangely…
Two thirds of the state of California is experiencing extreme to exceptional drought conditions after four dry years. B. Lynn…
The historic and ongoing drought in California is getting harder to ignore in terms of its potential impact on the US economy…
With California's scary, record-breaking drought capturing so much attention lately, an important bit of news about the dearth…
by James Stafford of Oilprice.com Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the…
In both industrialized countries and developing countries there may be those who ask “why should we care about global warming?…
We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it.
‘Anti-petroleum’ movement a growing security threat to Canada, RCMP…
A dried-up Laguna Lake in San Luis Obispo, California, in September 2014, after several years of severe drought. Joyce Cory/Creat…
Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation by M. A. Martínez-Botí, G. Marino, G. L.
Scientists in the US predict droughts worse than the extreme conditions believed to have played a part in ending a once-flourishi…
Droughts in the latter half of the 21st Century could be even more severe than previously predicted, according to a study…
During the second half of the 21st century, the U.S.
Environment Photo credit: The water irrigation pipes in the dry Southern California farmland. Eddie J.
How bad these droughts will get is tied to how much greenhouse gas emissions humans generate in...
Like many who live in the US Southwest, I’ve made my peace with the seemingly ever-present drought conditions here, and it’s…
Climate change is creating an “unprecedented” risk of severe drought in the Southwest and Central Plains. Rising temperatures…
Drought conditions during the last thousand years (brown line), along with projected conditions for the rest of this century…
Cornell ChronicleThe consequences of climate change paint ableak picture for the Southwest and much of America’s breadbasket…
During the second half of the 21st century, the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains will face persistent drought worse than…