08/10/2023
Still haven't registered for the Four Corners Workshop? Why not?
Don't miss Dr. Jonathan Overpeck's Climate Change Keynote:
The Growing Southwest Water Crisis and Drought on the Colorado Plateau
Many current assessments of future climate and hydrologic change suggest that current drylands around the globe could become drier with continued anthropogenic climate change. In some “early warning” regions, such as the Southwest U.S. and its headwater regions, there is a clear observed trend in this direction. This is particularly true for the region’s rivers, where the nature of drought is shifting to a more temperature-dominated climate extreme. At the same time, however, some recent and influential scientific assessments suggest that temperature-driven drying could be compensated by precipitation increases with little net increase to water supply or ecosystem risk. A new approach integrating the examination of temperature, precipitation and drought risk indicate that river flows, sustainable water supplies, and ecosystems in the Southwest and its headwater regions are already being seriously affected by warming, and that continued warming will likely result in much larger impacts than widely thought, even if average precipitation increases. The implications of these findings have serious implications for terrestrial systems across all of North America, including regions with higher average precipitation.
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