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The climate crisis is exacerbating a two-decade “megadrought” in the Colorado River region
America took a historic step to tackle the climate crisis when President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law the 3rd week of august. It is, as his former boss President Barack Obama tweeted, a “BFD”. But the moment of celebration was tempered by news that emerged about an hour before theContinue reading “The climate crisis is exacerbating a two-decade “megadrought” in the Colorado River region”
Climate change has some nasty surprises in store
The American West is suffering from a two-decade megadrought that is being exacerbated by the climate crisis.
The reservoir on the Colorado River behind Hoover Dam has become so depleted that Las Vegas is now pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead, which also stretches into Arizona.
2000–2021 was the driest 22-yr period since at least 800 for southwestern North America
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that the whole world is facing a problem with floodings, but also with enormous droughts.
Some View on the World 