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US at risk of "mega-drought" future
The American south-west and central plains could be on course for super-droughts the like of which they have not witnessed in over a 1,000 years. Places like California are already facing very dry conditions, but these are quite gentle compared with some periods in the 12th and 13th Centuries. Scientists have now compared these earlier droughts with climate simulations for the coming decades.
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"These mega-droughts during the 1100s and 1200s persisted for 20, 30, 40, 50 years at a time, and they were droughts that no-one in the history of the United States has ever experienced," said Ben Cook from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Of course no one in the U.S. experienced these droughts, the country was yet to be founded, however if it is meant no one was here then, this article lacks just one more layer of authenticity.
Some tough news if this holds up.
Along with possible asteroid collision, WW3, new plague, ad infinitum...........