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Snow retreat will worsen California droughts

2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: The Golden State is baking. After months of drought in California the long-term forecast is more drought. Rising global temperatures will turn much of the snow that currently replenishes the state's reservoirs to rain, according to modelling studies by Dan Cayan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Unlike snow, which melts each spring and recharges California's reservoirs, rain evaporates and soaks into the ground - it dwindles away, he says. Cayan says the Sierra Nevada...

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