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Climate change to make hot droughts hotter in the US southern plains

Climate change to make hot droughts hotter in the US southern plains

A new NOAA study in the Journal of Climate warns that in the already warm and frequently dry southern Great Plains and Southwest, climate change will make compound heat-wave and drought events significantly hotter than they used to be. 

July 15, 2019 0 Comments
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