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…
One of the general quandaries about current climate change impacts and those with our future climate has been: “how do we end up with drying when precipitation increases with warming as we already see happening and is further projected in the future?” This research from Princeton, University of Southampton and the US Geological Survey does…
