Drought challenges US south


	Drought challenges US south

invictus

6-23-2007 11:56 AM

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climate change, america, drought, water

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6-24-2007 10:41 AM

boniface

I'm living in southern Texas. Yep, we've had bad droughts in the past, the worst more than seventy years ago. But lately, we've had more rain than normal and it's come across from New Mexico. Question: What drought?

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Across the broad, parched plain below, stands of dead pinyon pine trees mingle 
with still-living junipers, grey death amidst green life.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=78456"><DIV>
"This used to be a pinyon and juniper woodland," Neil Cobb, an ecological 
research scientist at Northern Arizona University, remarks sadly. "Now it's just 
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Two items on the inventory of a decade of drought in northern Arizona: stressed 
trees that are succumbing to beetle infestations — die-off, it's called — and 
tinder forests at risk of fire. Every year it gets worse.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=78456"><DIV>
This is not simply a question of a local ecosystem at risk. These dead, scrubby 
Arizona pines are ecological mine canaries, early warning of the consequences of 
an imminent, permanent water shortage threatening all of the southern states, 
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