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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022

Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1,200 years, study finds

Author:     Diana Leonard
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     15 February | 3:03 p.m. EST
 Link: Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1,200 years, study finds
Stephan:   If you read me regularly then you know that in my opinion, after studying all the available research I could track down, my assessment is that we are going to have three major internal migrations: Away from the coasts, ocean, lake, and river because of too much water; out of the Southwest because of inadequate water and temperatures that are too high, and out of the Central states because of disasters brought on by dramatic weather events like tornadoes. Here, in this report, you see the latest data from the Southwest that supports my conclusions.
Houseboats float, amid extreme drought, on California’s Lake Oroville in October 2021.
Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News

The extreme heat and dry conditions of the past few years pushed what was already an epic, decades-long drought in the American West into a historic disaster that bears the unmistakable fingerprints of climate change. The long-running drought, which has persisted since 2000, can now be considered the driest 22-year period of the past 1,200 years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Previous work by some of the same authors of the new study had identified the period of 2000 through 2018 as the second-worst megadrought since the year 800 — exceeded only by an especially severe and prolonged drought in the 1500s. But with the past three scorching years added to the picture, the Southwest’s megadrought stands out in the record as the “worst” or driest in more than a millennium.

“Without climate change, this would not be even close to as bad as one of those historical megadroughts,” said […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 6:11 pm

    Maybe the “Project for the New American Century” which is the blueprint for the “Military Industrial Complex” should have considered how to endure the oncoming climate change disaster instead of just spending our money defending our country from a non-existent threat from war mongers, by making more weapons of destruction.