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“Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest”

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Ault, T.R. et al. 2016. Science Advances, vol. 2, e1600873
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ABSTRACT:
Megadroughts are comparable in severity to the worst droughts of the 20th century but are of much longer duration. A megadrought in the American Southwest would impose unprecedented stress on Continue reading →

“Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought”

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Colin P. Kelly et al. 2015. PNAS, Vol. 112, No. 11, pp. 3241-326.
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Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011, the greater Fertile Crescent experienced the most severe drought in the instrumental record. For Syria, a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies, the drought had a catalytic effect, contributing to Continue reading →

Water crisis in California: the earth responds

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When I recently returned from a trip to California I took something with me that is very precious to that state, something that is causing all kinds of problems for California, but is absolutely essential to everyone and everything in California. I Continue reading →