<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);">Robert F. Service. As the West Goes Dry. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);">Science February 20, 2004<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.303.5661.1124<o:p></o:p></span></p><div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);"><b>Excerpts</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);">New assessments of decades\u2019 worth of snowpack measurements show that snowpack levels have dropped considerably throughout the American West in response to a 0.8°C warming since the 1950s. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);">Even more sobering, new studies reveal that if even the most moderate regional warming predictions over the next 50 years come true, this will reduce western snowpacks by up to 60% in some regions, such as the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);">That in turn is expected to reduce summertime stream flows by 20% to 50%. \u2018Snow is our water storage in the West,\u2019 says Philip Mote, a climatologist at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, who leads a team that has produced much of the new work. \u2018When you remove that much storage, there is simply no way to make up for it.\u2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 24, 24);">\u201cThe impacts could be profound.\u201d</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; 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text-indent: 0px;"></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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">========<br><br>" 'Hopelessness' \u2026 is often derived from unfulfillable, rather than from merely unfulfilled, desires and wishes focused on impossible aims. It diminishes with the development of capability to change aim. Its counterpart is not just 'hope' but enthusiasm and zest."<br><br>Barbara Betz, M.D. <br>International Journal of Psychiatry. May, 1968<br><br>===========<br><br>" \u2018Triage\u2019 is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like many dirty words, it describes something common. Whether they admit it or not, conservationists have long had to make decisions about what to save.<br><br>"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions are best made \u2014 by concentrating on particular species, or particular places, or absolute costs, or any other criterion \u2014 becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."<br><br>Emma Marris, "What To Let Go.\u201d NATURE November 8, 2007<br><br>https://www.nature.com/articles/450152a.pdf</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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">==========</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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br> \u201cThe whole idea that everything\u2019s going to work out isn\u2019t really helpful because it isn\u2019t going to work out \u201d said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. <br>https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism<br><br>==\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br><br>"Environmental psychologist Susi Moser, also talks about the importance of acknowledging our underlying fears and distress about climate change as an important coping strategy. Moser (2012) calls it \u2018the bravest thing\u2019 \u2013 getting real, accepting reality without illusions, and accepting that better tomorrows may not come.\u201d<br><br>https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action<br><br><br>My own view: <<https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it>></div>
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