Hotter, Drier Forecast For Desert Southwest As Climate Unravels - CBS

A study billed by its researchers as the most detailed projection yet of climate change says hotter, drier Southwestern summers will become a reality by the late 21st century if human-caused global warming continues.

The number of extremely hot summer days _ those in the top 5 percent of the 105- to 112-degree range _ could jump 560 percent by late in the century from today, according to the Purdue University study. The study also says heat waves would last longer, up to 15 days each from northern Mexico into Nevada and Utah. Summer rainfall, which can cause severe flooding but also nourishes rivers, streams and aquifers that provide water to people and wildlife, would fall.

The predicted changes are large enough to substantially disrupt the U.S. economy and its roads, bridges and other public infrastructure, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a Purdue assistant professor who headed the research team behind the study.

Diffenbaugh said the study targets the period 2071-85 and assumes the temperature and rainfall changes would occur gradually, starting before then.


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He is destroying us. Americans will die on their own land because he has left us naked to our true enemy.