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Drought Called Threat to Public Health
2015-02-26 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courthouse News: California's drought and warming climate could have disastrous effects on public health and infectious diseases, without drought-adaptation planning, state officials said Wednesday. Rising food costs and diabetes rates, increased respiratory disease and loss of drinking water in rural communities are being exacerbated by California's drought, and a statewide social media campaign is needed, said Linda Rudolph, co-director of the Climate Change and Public Health Project. In this year's first...
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NASA climate study warns unprecedented North American drought
2015-02-16 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: California is in the midst of its worst drought in over 1,200 years, exacerbated by record hot temperatures. A new study led by Benjamin Cook at Nasa GISS examines how drought intensity in North America will change in a hotter world, and finds that things will only get worse. Global warming intensifies drought in several ways. In increases evaporation from soil and reservoirs. In increases water demand. It makes precipitation fall more as rain and less as snow, which is problematic for regions like...
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US should prepare for 'unprecedented drought conditions' unlike anything past 1,000 years
2015-02-14 05:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Since the turn of this century, the US south-west has spent more than a decade in drought. Last year was the warmest on record in California, which is in the middle of its driest spell for more than 400 years. But according to a new scientific study, that's nothing compared to what comes next. In the paper, published by the journal Science Advances, researchers from Nasa and Columbia and Cornell universities warn that a vast swathe of the US, including the south-west states and the central plains,...
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U.S. Drought Risk This Century Worst in 1,000 Years
2015-02-12 23:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The worst persistent drought ever in the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains will parch the region during the second half of the 21st century, with the drying conditions "driven primarily" by human-induced global warming, new research predicts. "We are the first to do this kind of quantitative comparison between the projections and the distant past, and the story is a bit bleak," said Jason Smerdon, a co-author and climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of the Earth Institute...
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Worst Drought 1,000 Years Predicted American West
2015-02-12 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Large parts of the U.S. are in for a drought of epic proportions in the second half of this century, scientists warn in a new study that provides the highest degree of certainty yet on the impact of global warming on water supplies in the region. The chances of a 35-year or longer "megadrought" striking the Southwest and central Great Plains by 2100 are above 80 percent if the world stays on its current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and Cornell...
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