Sentences with phrase «shrinking snowpack»
The impact of #climatechange on California - shrinking snowpacks, droughts, wildfires, tree deaths, increases... twitter.com/i/web/status/9...
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Snowpack in the northern Rocky Mountains has shrunk at an unusually rapid pace during the past 30 years, according to a new study.
But for the past 30 years or so, snowpack in both regions has shrunk.
Also like California, Stevens said, climate change modeling predicts a future of hotter summers, accentuated droughts, and shrinking winter snowpacks in Turkey's Taurus Mountains, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers arise.
Winters are shorter, fewer cold records are set, more precipitation is falling as rain and less as snow — although whopper snowstorms are even more likely in some places — and snowpacks are shrinking and melting earlier.
As climate change shrinks mountain snowpack and causes more intense floods and droughts, our work to protect the Northwest's rivers and fresh water is more important than ever.
Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.
Water shortages could also be serious problems in Peru (as Andean glaciers disappear) and California (as snowpacks shrink.)
Via:: Contra Costa Times: Sierra snowpack could shrink faster than previously thought (news website)
Nevada Irrigation District, which serves two California counties, wants to build a new reservoir on the Bear River to capture rainfall, amid concerns that climate change is shrinking Sierra Nevada snowpack.