[MCN] Climate change not friendly to riverside towns, counties

[Lance Olsen]

Public Release: 6-Aug-2018
Rain-on-snow flood risk to increase in many mountain regions of the western US, Canada
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western US and Canada due to climate change.

 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php>JOURNAL
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php>Nature Climate Change
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0236-4 <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0236-4>
Full release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php>

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“The changes experienced by the biosphere over the past century ... have raised concerns about the possibility of rapid shifts from green to desert states.” 

Richard Sole'. Scaling laws in the drier. Nature 13 September 2007

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"What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change," said co-author Jay Famiglietti. 

"We see a distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter -- those are the high latitudes and the tropics -- and the dry areas in between getting dryer.”

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-102

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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018

Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 

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