Climate scientists study the odds of a megadrought

ENN
Dec 12, 2017, 1:49 pm10 pts
To help untangle fact from speculation, Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess the odds of a megadrought – one that lasts more than 30 years – occurring in the western and southwestern United States. The research was published online Dec. 8 in…

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