They were in drought before, and then they weren’t. And now they are, and then they won’t be. It’s sorta cyclical.
But hopefully we have global warming because a warmer planet is a wetter planet. :)
Absolutely.
I'm don't know about the American West, but my understanding is that when the world is in a warming cycle, there is more evaporation, thus more rain, and desert areas such as the Sahara turn relatively green.
Conversely, if you are in a cooling cycle, the water tends to stay in the ocean, you get droughts and deserts expand.
I think we're cooling.
Some times we is and sometimes we ain’t. This year we is. In NevaDUH anyways.