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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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Climate Change Across America – Fall Filming 2021: Beetle Kill in SW CO and Forest Failure at Mesa Verde National Park

By Abrupt changes, Drought, Earth systems, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, pine beetle

Climate Change Across America Fall Filming Report Southern and Southwestern Colorado Beetle Attack and Forest Regeneration Failure at Mesa Verde National Park We returned to filming after a long covid. No trouble. On the big drive from Texas to the mountains, New Mexico was grand with their indoor mask mandate. Colorado and Texas were about…

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