Hundred-Year Forecast: Drought
By CHRISTOPHER R. SCHWALM, CHRISTOPHER A. WILLIAMS and KEVIN SCHAEFER
Published: August 11, 2012
BY many measurements, this summer’s drought is one for the record books.
But so was last year’s drought in the South Central states. And it has
been only a decade since an extreme five-year drought hit the American
West. Widespread annual droughts, once a rare calamity, have become more
frequent and are set to become the “new normal.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/extreme-weather-and-drought-are-here-to-stay.html?_r=2&hp
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