[MCN] Universities will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis : Smaller universities may have to close forever

[Lance Olsen]

Nature - News Feature 01 June 2020
Universities will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01518-y>
How virtual classrooms and dire finances could alter academia: part 1 in a series on science after the pandemic.
Alexandra Witze

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”Precipitation is just the supply side," said study coauthor Jason Smerdon, a Lamont-Doherty paleoclimatologist. "Temperature is on the demand side, the part that dries things out." 

"If we don't see it coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right," said (Kate) Marvel. "But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."

Precipitation over much of central America, Mexico the central and western United States and Europe is projected to stay about the same, or even increase. But, according to both the new study and a separate 2018 paper, rising temperatures and resulting evaporation of moisture from soils in those regions will probably predominate. 

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php>
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