home.social

#pacificdecadaloscillation — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pacificdecadaloscillation, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought

    The southwestern United States has been in a historic megadrought for much of the past two decades, with its reservoirs including lakes Mead and Powell dipping to record lows and legal disputes erupting over rights to use water from the Colorado River.

    Research indicates that human activity may be driving drought far more than previously thought via the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

    #drought #PDO #ColoradoRiver #PacificDecadalOscillation #water

    theconversation.com/climate-mo