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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Our results
indicate that future reductions in Arctic sea ice cover could
significantly reduce available water in the American
west...."<br>
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Jacob O. Sewall and Lisa Cirbus Sloan. Disappearing Arctic sea ice
reduces available water in the American west<br>
<i>GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS</i> VOL. 31,<b> 2004<br>
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" Š the proportion of the land surface in extreme drought is
predicted to increase from 1% for the present day to 30% by the end of
the twenty-first century." <br>
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Eleanor J. Burke et al. "Modeling the Recent Evolution of Global
Drought and Projections for the Twenty-First Century with the Hadley
Centre Climate Model."<i> JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY</i> OCTOBER<b>
2006<br>
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"Linkages between northern high-latitude climate and precipitation
in the Sierra Nevada suggested here could indicate that, under
conditions of continued global warming, this drought-prone region may
experience a reduction in Pacific-sourced moisture."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Jessica L. Oster
et al. Late Pleistocene California droughts during deglaciation and
Arctic warming.<i> Earth and Planetary Science Letters</i><b>
(2009)</b></font></div>
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