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hoochiecoochieman [soylentnews.org] writes:

The western US states have been suffering from a severe drought. But what if this is only a sample of what's yet to come?

According to the Washington Post, the data indicate that something called a "megadrought" may come to the Western US this century. A megadrought is a sustained drought that spans a generation. It has already happened before, the last time in the Middle Ages, and it had natural causes. But this time, man-made global warming seems to be the cause, and it will affect tens of millions of people living in the affected areas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/todays-drought-in-the-west-is-nothing-compared-to-what-may-be-coming/2015/02/12/0041646a-b2d9-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html [washingtonpost.com]

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