Thursday, December 30, 2010

A 60-Year Drought Like That Of The 12th Century Could Be In The Southwest's Future

[Medical News Today]  An unprecedented combination of heat plus decades of drought could be in store for the Southwest sometime this century, suggests new research from a University of Arizona-led team...."Major 20th century droughts pale in comparison to droughts documented in paleoclimatic records over the past two millennia," the researchers wrote. During the Medieval period, elevated temperatures coincided with lengthy and widespread droughts. More
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