American West Will Face Mega Droughts in Coming Century

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A warmer planet would mean the subtropical high pressure that dominates in the desert belts moves north.  This, coupled with a cooler eastern pacific ocean due to upwelling water, casts a giant rain shadow on the SW quadrant of N America.

But then enormous el niño events can occur sporadically and lead to devastating flooding.

My intuition tells me that if global warming plays out, it will increase the summer monsoon in the west, and Arizona will get most of its precip in summer rather than winter, which would be dry and benign.

Unfortunately in California where the cold Pacific keeps the atmosphere too stable for convection...itll dry up like a prune even as Nevada potentially greens.

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end times

nah, different and challenging times

Nicolai carpathia loyalist, eh?

Yeah...politicus is pretty much the spawn of satan (i'm kidding)

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What if we just add pepper to the water...that oughta balance out the salt