[MCN] Low flow in rivers, streams as new climate unfolds

[Lance Olsen]

How Can We Better Understand Low River Flows as Climate Changes?
photo caption: A dead fish on the dry bed of the 
Rio Grande in Albuquerque, N.M., emphasizes the 
ecological risks posed by low river flows. 
Credit: Dagmar Llewellyn

Summary: When rivers run low, they threaten 
ecosystems, economies, and the communities who 
depend on them. Scientists need to determine how 
climate change alters this process, but to do so, 
they'll have to abandon a long-held assumption.

https://eos.org/opinions/how-can-we-better-understand-low-river-flows-as-climate-changes
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"Although we are only at an early stage in the 
projected trends of global warming,
ecological responses to recent climate change are already clearly visible."

Walther et al, "Ecological responses to recent climate change."
Nature, March 28, 2002
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"Š. the earth's atmosphere is so thoroughly mixed 
and so rapidly recycled through the biosphere 
that the next breath you inhale will contain 
atoms exhaled by Jesus at Gethsemane and Adolf 
Hitler at Munich."

Preston Cloud and Aharon Gibor.   "The Oxygen Cycle." 
Scientific American, September 1970
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