Posted on 09/21/2021 10:30:32 PM PDT by Libloather
LOS ANGELES, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Human-caused climate change has intensified the withering drought gripping the Southwestern United States, the region's most severe on record, with precipitation at the lowest 20-month level documented since 1895, a U.S. government report said on Tuesday.
Over the same period, from January 2020 through August 2021, the region also experienced the third-highest daily average temperatures measured since record-keeping began near the end of the 19th century, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) drought task force.
The study warned that extreme drought conditions are likely to worsen and repeat themselves "until stringent climate mitigation is pursued and regional warming trends are reversed."
The drought emerged in early 2020 in California, Nevada and the "Four Corners" states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico and has led to unprecedented water shortages in reservoirs across the region, while fueling devastating western wildfires over the past two years, the report noted.
The study also cited dwindling reservoir levels that have threatened or disrupted drinking supplies, irrigation systems, hydropower generation, fishing and recreational activities, with immediate economic losses in the billions of dollars.
Much of the record below-normal wintertime precipitation was likely due to natural weather variations, including a La Nina pattern, while research suggests that successive summers of scant monsoonal rainfall may also occur by chance, the NOAA report said.
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A century is only 85-90 years now?
Much of the record below-normal wintertime precipitation was likely due to natural weather variations, including a La Nina pattern, while research suggests that successive summers of scant monsoonal rainfall may also occur by chance, the NOAA report said
I have a question - since warming causes cooling, does cooling also cause warming? Just checking the science...
So, 9.34 years and the Obama’s beachfront mansion will be under water? What else? Will life cease to exist? Will the Arctic finally be ice-free as Prophet Gore predicted for 2015?
According to the rich bartender, the entire PLANET will be toast. Good thing she’s getting her maskless partying in early.
12,000 employees and a 7 billion dollar a year budget. No wonder they’re dumb as a rock.
They lost me on the first four words.
What a crock.
If you move somewhere that has 360 days of sun per year and less than 6” of rain per year, and is called “The Desert Southwest”, draught is your forever companion.
Another hair on fire fear porn subject for the NWO to control us.
Climate change is a theory only.
A theory is NOT a PROVEN FACT.
Just like carbon dating.
They can say something is millions of years old but they don’t tell you that they don’t have a million year old control to compare it with.
Many people are duped by the media speaking as if theories are proven facts.
An drought, too.
They think the Southwest never had a drought in centuries past.
We had climate change in 1895 too?
Arizona had an awesome monsoon season this year. We had 3 major storms in less than 10 days in July and then a storm pretty much every week after that. I find it hard to believe we’re still in a drought after the torrential rainfall we had.
I live in the southwest. South central New Mexico to be more precise.
In my region it has been the wettest and coolest summer in my 70 years. From mid-June to the end of August we got DOUBLE the average total ANNUAL precipitation. Temperatures were 20F under the normal nearly every day and every night.
Dido, Dido, they say all of Southern California will look like Death Valley. I have visions of the Twenty Mule Team Borax commercials.
We have had the wettest monsoon ever this year in Arizona. This is nothing but lying by omission.
Phoenix’s 2021 monsoon season inches closer to 1896 record for most measurable rainfall.
Phoenix had more rain this year than it has for the last 3 years.
I guess we are no longer in the “Southwest”
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