Here’s a story to cheer you up. Things are getting improbably worse than you could imagine.
Large sections of the United States will endure “persistent droughts” in the coming decades that will be worse than anything experienced in the past 1,000 years.
Comparing the conditions to the Dust Bowl but lasting several decades, researchers writing in the journal Science Advances warned Thursday that the Southwest and Great Plains will be hit by these “mega-droughts” in the later part of the 21st century. Such events have been linked to the fall of civilizations, including the decline of the Anasazi, or Ancient Pueblo Peoples, in the Colorado Plateau in the late 13th century.
“The story is a bit bleak,” said Jason E. Smerdon, a co-author and climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. “Even when selecting for the worst mega drought-dominated period, the 21st century projections make (those) mega droughts seem like quaint walks through the Garden of Eden.”
Fortunately, we have a responsive, responsible, city government, working hard to ensure that the developers loot every last asset before the dust hits the fan.
Have a nice day!
This presumes three things:
1.: That the study is accurate; and
2.: That the climate is never supposed to change; and
3.: That the government can control the climate
Since the study asserts that similar occurrences caused the fall of past civilizations which pre-date industrialization by centuries, we can assume that the study does not infer man as the causation. This makes the comment about developers somewhat questionable. Developers were responsible for the disappearance of the Anasazi?
One thing not considered by the study: That we have become pretty good at finding water, much better than ancient civilizations who have gone missing.
What’s your argument exactly? You don’t like science?