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Global Weirding
Dec. 3rd, 2007 07:17 am♠
As global warming continues to alter the climate, scientists agree that such boom and bust cycles will become more severe. Droughts will become more common as the area's already strained water supplies are further depleted by longer dry spells, evaporation and even the increased thirst of vegetation trying to survive in hotter climes. And the rain that does come is likely to arrive in more violent storms.
"It's paradoxical," said Andrew Dessler, professor at Texas A&M's Department of Atmospheric Sciences. "But you can expect both more drought and more flood."
-- Anton Caputo for The San Antonio Express-News
Thomas Friedman mentioned in his Sunday column that, instead of global warming, some think of it as global weirding. That works for me.
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As global warming continues to alter the climate, scientists agree that such boom and bust cycles will become more severe. Droughts will become more common as the area's already strained water supplies are further depleted by longer dry spells, evaporation and even the increased thirst of vegetation trying to survive in hotter climes. And the rain that does come is likely to arrive in more violent storms.
"It's paradoxical," said Andrew Dessler, professor at Texas A&M's Department of Atmospheric Sciences. "But you can expect both more drought and more flood."
-- Anton Caputo for The San Antonio Express-News
Thomas Friedman mentioned in his Sunday column that, instead of global warming, some think of it as global weirding. That works for me.
