Climate change threatens new dust bowl in Southwest - Yahoo! News: "'Dust Bowl' drought driven by global warming will be the normal climate of the future for the American Southwest, report climatologists.
'We're essentially moving the desert further north,' says Mingfang Ting of Columbia University, co-author of a study released Thursday by the journal Science. By 2020, rain estimates show 'very unusual' agreement among climate projections, with the Southwestern states facing permanent drought. That would worsen already arid conditions in Las Vegas, Phoenix and other locales dependent on the Colorado River, Ting says."
Friday, April 6, 2007
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