Only cool mud remains Study Finds that 42% of the Megadrought in the U.S. Southwest Has Been Caused by Climate Change; and Texas Too Our climate has crossed evolutionary boundaries of Earth systems Degradation has begun, that emissions reductions alone cannot stop First published on Drought.gov in 2022. See https://www.drought.gov/research-spotlight-climate-driven-megadrought from 9/15/2026 This study is…
The last five years have seen 30 to 60 percent more rain in the Central Texas Highland Lakes watershed than in the worst five years of the drought of the 1950s, and the latest National Weather Service 30-year rainfall averages for the watershed have increased seven to twenty percent. Austin is up nine percent. Opposite…
Published on Truthout.org February 21, 2013: Beginning in just eight years, we could see permanent climate conditions across the North American Southwest that are comparable to the worst megadrought in 1,000 years. The latest research from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University published in December 2012 has some truly astounding news. The megadroughts referred…
