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Can Climate Action Plans Combat Megadrought and Save Colorado River?
2015-03-09 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If a citys water supply is threatened by climate change, should that city enact a strong climate action plan? I believe the answer is yes, but few cities throughout the Colorado River basin are moving forward aggressively to address climate change even though the threat is increasing every year. Two of the largest reservoirs in the U.S.Lakes Mead and Powell along the Colorado Rivercontinue to lose water and are now less than half full with no prediction that the trend will change direction. The...
6 trending headlines: The cost of skinny cows; Plus, is a megadrought looming?
2015-03-02 16:17:00| Beef
Almost all producers have, at some time or another, battled drought. Are the droughts of the past few years just a warm-up for whats yet to come? Interstitial Ads Frequency: -1 read more
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Western forecast has megadrought on the horizon
2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Elko Daily Free Press: In just the first six weeks of the new year, weve already seen nine record high temperatures. The weather has been unusually warm and dry across the West, while the folks back East are seeing one of their worst winters in history. The pattern is pretty much a repeat of last winter, only more extreme. And extremes are what climate change is all about. Thats the accepted term for what used to be called global warming, a phenomenon most scientists believe is caused by human activity such as...
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California to Face Mega-Drought of 35 Years from 20150, Warn Climate Scientists
2015-02-14 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MF Monitor: Last year was the warmest on record in California, its driest spell for more than 400 years but a new study says thats nothing compared to whats in store. In a paper, published by the journal Science Advances, researchers from Nasa and Columbia and Cornell universities warn that a vast swathe of the US, including the south-west states and the central plains, may face unprecedented drought conditions, unseen in the past 1,000 years. In about 35 years, the regions millennia-long natural cycle...
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NASA Researchers forecast decades long mega-drought to hit Southwest of the US
2015-02-14 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Westside Story: A decades-long mega-droughts is likely to hit the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains regions during the second half of this century, if climate change issues go unattended forecasts researchers from NASA, Columbia and Cornell universities. The study findings are published in the journal Science Advances. The new forecast is based on models of continued climate change and considers the lagging pace of many countries in mitigating the output of greenhouse gases. The study findings reveal that there...
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