Desert Sun: On Jan. 11, the National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee a consortium of 13 federal agencies released its third draft report on the impact of climate change on the U.S. As seems to be the rule with federal documents, its monstrously long, but fairly readable and the online table of contents is easy to navigate.
I went directly to the section on the Southwest to see whats in store for the desert. Its unsettling reading.
Snowpack and streamflow amounts are projected to decline, decreasing...