Streamflows the West relies on for drinking water and farms used to follow a fairly predictable arc as winter snow melted. Rising temperatures are changing that.
- Senior Research Scientist in Climate, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center & Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Park and forest managers can’t rely on the past any longer to understand future risks. Fires, pests and climate change are changing the game.
La Niña is only part of the problem. The long-term driver of increasing drought – even in areas getting more rainfall overall – is the rapidly warming climate.
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