#extreme drought

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Scientists warn of "massive" release from Great Salt Lake

Researcher Soren Brothers said the best way "to keep this CO2 from being released is by ensuring that Great Salt Lake remains wet"

[doomsayersunited]

^ 2014.

^ 2015.

^ 2021. So basically the state with 30 million people and growing half of the country’s fruits & vegetables is in a multi-year extreme drought that is going to most likely turn the most fertile farmland in America into a Mad Max-like wasteland.

[finnofamerica]

And millions of sand dried faces turned to the sky. Rain. 

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Greening Up

It’s been a week since I took this photo. I participated in a group bird walk, and when I came upon this serene scene, it stopped me in my tracks. The morning sun highlighted the tall hardwood trees elevated above a bend in the North River. Their leaves were still unfolding. The combination of the green grass and the fresh and tender leaves shouted “greening up,” a term used especially in…

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[macwantspeace]

I heard plot plot plot on the kitchen chimney. I stood at the window. Lightning flashed. Drips happened. I shouted at the window: Thank you! For the palm tree, I thank you. For the ash tree, I thank you. For the crunchy brown grass, I thank you.

[thoughtlessarse]

Primarily caused by fossil fuels: Scientists blame climate change for 'extreme drought' in Iraq, Iran and Syria

The "extreme" drought gripping Iraq, Syria and Iran would not have occurred without climate change caused primarily by burning fossil fuels, scientists said Wednesday, warning that punishing dry spells will become more intense as the world warms. High temperatures due to human-caused climate change made the drought "much more likely to happen" -- about 25 times more likely in Syria and Iraq and 16 times more likely in Iran, according to the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. "Human-induced climate change has increased the intensity of such a drought such that it would not have been classified as a drought in a 1.2C cooler world," said the scientists. It found that existing vulnerability from "years of conflict and political instability" also reduced people's ability to respond to the drought, sparking a "humanitarian disaster". The research focused on the period from July 2020 to June 2023 in two regions where impacts have been most severe: Iran, and the basin of the Tigris and the Euphrates, the rivers that cross Syria and Iraq. Both regions are currently experiencing an "extreme drought" as classified by the US Drought Monitor scale, said the scientists in a statement. "After quite good rains in 2020 and good harvests, three years of very low rainfalls followed with very high temperatures led to a drought with very severe impacts on agricultural access to potable water," said co-author Friederike Otto, of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London.

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Majority of Central Texas under 'extreme' drought, latest drought monitor shows

As suspected, drought conditions worsening across the region due to a lack of precipitation

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Household water wells are drying up in record numbers as California drought worsens

Household wells in California are drying up in record numbers due to drought and groundwater overpumping. Rural families are the hardest hit