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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (936676)5/24/2016 6:50:13 PM
From: Wharf Rat   of 1575994
 
"Now you say 2040, earlier you said 2050. Keep making stuff up."

Who needs to make things up?

An imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America
Richard Seager
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia


In the Southwest the levels of aridity seen in the 1950s multiyear drought, or the 1930s Dust Bowl, become the new climatology by mid-century: a perpetual drought.
ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu
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Of the 19 different computer models that the research team used for the study, all but one showed a drying trend in the swath of North America between Kansas, California, and northern Mexico. The models predicted an average 15% decline in runoff for the Southwest between 2021 and 2040, compared to the average surface moisture between 1950 and 2000.
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