SoCal Set To Dry Up

I've been following water issues for awhile now, and being a Los Angeles resident, it didn't take a rocket scientist to tell me that the farther global warming advances, the less water L.A. is going to have on tap to help it forget that it is, in fact, a desert. Looks like the LA Times finally caught up to this ironically cold fact. So, where to move?

Human-caused global warming has been shrinking the snowpack across the mountain ranges of the West for five decades, suggesting that the region's long battle for water will only get worse, according to a computer analysis released today.

As temperatures have increased, more winter precipitation has fallen as rain instead of snow, and the snow is melting sooner, reported the study published in the journal Science.

The result is that rivers are flowing faster in the spring, raising the risk of flooding, and slower in the summer, raising the risk of drought.

"These trends will only intensify over the next few decades," said Richard Seager, a research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.