Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Reconstructing topsy-turvy paleoclimate of western US 21,000 years ago

CLIMATE SCIENCE
Reconstructing topsy-turvy paleoclimate of western US 21,000 years ago
Nashville TN (SPX) Feb 24, 2015 - Climate scientists now put the odds that the American Southwest is headed into a 30-year "mega drought" at 50/50. Meanwhile, the forecast for the Pacific Northwest is continued warming with slightly drier summers and even wetter winters. However, 21,000 years ago, at the peak of the last Ice Age, a period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, the Southwest was wetter than it is today - much w ... more


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