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May 2026

Drought Now Driven by Heat, Not Lack of Precipitation

By Abrupt changes, climate restoration, Drought, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, Heat, Impacts, rainfall, Temperature, Tipping

  Heat Now Drives Western Drought, Not Precipitation… Forget about future drought extremes on a warmer planet. Droughts today have exceeded the evolutionary boundaries of most if not almost all of our world’s ecologies. This means their collapses are baked in, where new species and mechanisms tolerant of the warmer and drier conditions, replace the…

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