The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds.
"Climate change is changing the baseline conditions toward a drier, gradually drier state in the West and that means the worst-case scenario keeps getting worse," said study lead author Park Williams, a climate hydrologist at UCLA. "This is right in line with what people were thinking of in the 1900s as a worst-case scenario. But today I think we need to be even preparing for conditions in the future that are far worse than this.
The drought monitor says 55% of the U.S. West is in drought with 13% experiencing the two highest drought levels. Climate change from the burning of fossil fuels is bringing hotter temperatures and increasing evaporation in the air, scientists say.
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