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Climate change parching the American West even without rainfall deficits

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022. A study by UCLA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientists has found that evaporation accounted for 61% of the drought’s severity, while reduced precipitation only accounted for 39%. The research found […]