Climate Models Reveal How Human Activity May Lock Southwest in Permanent Drought
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A study suggests that human activity may be locking the Southwest into a permanent drought, and commenters discuss the robustness of climate models and the complexity of regional climate projections.
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Anyway, all the model runs said this was going to happen. Robust to parameter variation, this result.