Sunday Focus: Drought

     By the time they are middle aged, some children born in the U.S. this year will be dealing with the worst drought in 1,000 years.

"The chances of a 35-year or longer "megadrought" striking the Southwest and central Great Plains by 2100 are above 80 percent if the world stays on its current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and Cornell University report in a study published Thursday in the new open-access journal Science Advances." (Quoted in National Geographic)

     That would be way above even the severe drought in California in the past year, as shown on this California Map from The Drought Monitor. The deep red is the highest category of drought, "exceptional."
     National Geographic has a good story about the predicted historic drought, and a second comprehensive piece about the "Drying Of The West".

     The forecast is not as grim for the SouthEastern states, including Alabama, but a drought of the proportion being described for The SouthWest and the Great Plains would have a devastating financial impact on the entire country, and thus, on the world.

[Sunday Focus is a regular feature of TimLennox.com.]