The U.S. Southwest and Central Plains regions are likely to be scorched by a decades-long "megadrought" in the second half of this century if climate change continues unabated, scientists from NASA and Cornell and Columbia universities have warned.

thundara:

I can only hope that the Steinbeck quote holds true and this is only the nadir of a multi-decade water cycle...

    And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

-- John Steinbeck, East of Eden


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