{"id":4968,"date":"2011-02-23T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2011-02-23T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:02:22","slug":"mega-droughts-stalk-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Mega-Droughts Stalk the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/stages-of-dental-implants/">Order Zopiclone Online</a> A few weeks ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2011\/02\/11\/is-the-southwest-on-borrowed-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">mused<\/a> that the American Southwest may be on borrowed time. Forget that.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/">Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription</a> A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v470\/n7335\/full\/nature09839.html\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in Nature spells doom. From the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/doodles4leaders/">Buy Tramadol Without Prescription</a> The potential for increased drought frequency and severity linked to  anthropogenic climate change in the semi-arid regions of the  southwestern United States is a serious concern. Multi-year droughts during the instrumental period and decadal-length droughts of the past two millennia were shorter and climatically different from the future permanent,  &#8220;\u02dcdust-bowl-like&#8217; megadrought conditions, lasting decades to a century,  that are predicted as a consequence of warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/emergency/"></a> Nature&#8217;s Quirin Schiermeier has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110223\/full\/news.2011.120.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on the study, and this eye-popping quote from Richard Seager, a Columbia University climate researcher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/local-recommendations/">https://blackhillsballoons.com/local-recommendations/</a> But we&#8217;re not there yet, Seager tells Nature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/contact/"></a> A signal of anthropogenic drying is emerging, but it is still small. I&#8217;d expect that by mid-century the human signal will  exceed the amplitude of natural climate variability. Then we can safely  say that the Southwest has entered a new climate stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/marksnews/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/marksnews/</a> A few weeks ago, I mused that the American Southwest may be on borrowed time. Forget that. The Southwest is toast. A new paper in Nature spells doom. From the abstract: The potential for increased drought frequency and severity linked to anthropogenic climate change in the semi-arid regions of the southwestern United States is a&#8230;<span> <a href="https://rgprincipal.com/contact-peru/">https://rgprincipal.com/contact-peru/</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4968\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2561,2617,2994],"tags":[851,951,1631],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-science","category-drought","category-southwest","tag-climate-science","tag-drought","tag-southwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}