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display: inline; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Special <b>Snow Drought</b> Update: Rapid Snowmelt | May 20, 2025</a></span><div><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;"><div style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 12px;"><a style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">Drought.gov</a></div><div style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">NIDIS and its partners release these <b>snow drought</b> updates for the western U.S. every 4 weeks from December through June.</div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br>=====</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">"Several studies are consistent with the \u201c1000-ton rule,\u201d according to which a future person is killed every time 1000 tons of fossil carbon are burned (order-of-magnitude estimate). <br><br>\u201cIf warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C \u2026, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.\u201d</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br>Energies 2023, 16(16), 6074; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16166074<br>Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy <br>by Joshua M. Pearce And Richard Parncutt <br><br> https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074</div></div></div>
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