Xochitl, Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; A Martinez, Alex Cohen (Take Two/SCPR)
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| Sunset, Joshua Tree Nat'l Park, Boy Scout Trail head, 5-29-14 (Richard Lui/The Desert Sun) |
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| The future of California and the American Southwest unless we stop corporate radiers |
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| It's not getting hotter just less cool, more chaotic |
Nearly all of the Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Forest could disappear in a few decades because of climate change.
It's hard to imagine that in the deserts of the American Southwest, a few degrees hotter can drastically affect a place that's already very dry.
Many predictions of rising worldwide temperatures [most of them conservative underestimates] often conjure up images of swelling shorelines flooding beachfront homes and towns like Manhattan and Malibu because of shrinking polar ice caps.
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| The high Buddhist desert of Ladakh, India in the Himalayas, behind Mt. Everest, here overlooking the lamasery of Tsemo Gompa in the capital of Leh (SylvainBrajeul/flickr.com) |
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| Himalayan desert behind Everest, Zanskar river |
But Ian James, environment reporter for The Desert Sun, wrote a three-part investigation on how climate change could drastically affect the flora (plants), fauna (animals), and people (humans and other humanoids like the earthbound-devas or nature spirits and the dreaded djinn) of this arid wilderness.
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| Desert mesa, American Southwest drying up |
"Basically in the desert there's very little humidity in the air," said James on Take Two.
"That lack of humidity in the air, in the soil, in the whole region makes it so the hotter temperatures don't have that one other element to bump up against that would make it a little less intense." LISTEN: AUDIO (9:20)
[Increase] awareness. "Chances are a consumer dismissive of climate change won’t notice the label," Brooks said. "The person concerned about climate change will read the label...It acts as a reinforcement...
How the insurance industry sees climate change 
...America, on the threat climate change posed to the $2-trillion... Climate change: A June 17 Op-Ed... steps to prevent losses related to climate change. Farmers has withdrawn the lawsuits...
Tale of passenger pigeon extinction may have had natural twist 
(Geoffrey Mohan) The authors wondered how climate and food might have affected the passenger pigeon... it also revealed sharp year-to-year changes in acorn production that could have affected... over the last million years, based on climate, food, and other factors, the authors...
- DVD: Climate Engineering
- Desert Sun: "Joshua trees losing ground"
- Desert Sun: "Struggle for survival"
- Desert Sun: "Vanishing Water" (desertsun.com)
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- The US-planned ISIS insurgency continues in Iraq
- SoCal vets express frustration with unrest in Iraq
- Close Calls: Hikers survive Grand Canyon rock slide
- Vast reservoir of water deep below Earth's surface
- Man charged with molesting 5 kids may have other victims
- Searching for Sasquatch in Virginia (southwesttimes.com)
- No worries. We'll just leave California and get On The Road
