Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Action Needed Now to Prepare for Severe Drought

Inter Press Service: Mexico and Central America look like they are covered in dried blood on maps projecting future soil moisture conditions. The results from 19 different state-of-the-art climate models project extreme and persistent drought conditions (colored dark red-brown on the maps) for almost all of Mexico, the midwestern United States and most of Central America. If climate change pushes the global average temperature to 2.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial era levels, as many experts now expect, these...

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