The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow Environmentalism Unknown to many Angelenos

Unknown to many Angelenos

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The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow Environmentalism Unknown to many AngelenosThe West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the regions current water crisis from the perspective of its climate history, the authors ask the central question of what is normal climate for the West, and whether the relatively benign climate of the past century will