Climate Change Threatens New Dust Bowl (Southwest US)

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/apr/05/040507634.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Changing climate will mean increasing drought in the Southwest - a region where water already is in tight supply - according to a new study.

"The bottom line message for the average person and also for the states and federal government is that they'd better start planning for a Southwest region in which the water resources are increasingly stretched," said Richard Seager of Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Seager is lead author of the study published online Thursday by the journal Science.

Researchers studied 19 computer models of the climate, using data dating back to 1860 and projecting into the future. The same models were used in preparing the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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[phantom power]

1. Things aren't looking so good for the midwest either.

[kitkatrose]

2. Oh joy.

What are we going to do with the people this time? I don't think they'll all fit on the West coast, it's kind of crowded.

[pscot]

3. There goes the neighborhood

n/t

[phantom power]

4. We're going to find all those smug bastards with the earth-ships and...

squat there. You know who you are.

best laid plans of mice and men...

:evilgrin: