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font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" class="">"The American West has already lost between 10 and 20 percent of its mountain snowpack since the early 1980s, and climate change is partly to blame, new research shows.”</font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" class="">[[This didn’t require any “new research.” Loss of snow, and the cause of it in the form of rising temperatures, had been well established by 2004. It’s actually been a bit of a no-brainer, something in the category of ridiculously simple. Everybody knows that we don’t get snow when it’s 90 above, or rain when it’s 30 below]] </font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" class="">"If greenhouse gas emissions are not curtailed, the region could lose 30 percent of …</font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class=""><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042017/western-water-supply-mountain-snowmelt-global-warming-climate-change" class="">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042017/western-water-supply-mountain-snowmelt-global-warming-climate-change</a></font></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="">
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