• Europe is experiencing an unusually warm winter. • Most of the western U.S. is in some form of drought. • Millions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are contending with food insecurity due to poor harvests. Climate change is causing droughts everywhere.
That’s very bad news for Texas cotton farmers. The New York Times recently reported that “2022 was a disaster for upland cotton in Texas,”and high prices of tampons and cloth diapers, among other products. “In the biggest loss on record, Texas farmers abandoned 74 percent of their planted crops — nearly six million acres — because of heat and parched soil, hallmarks of a megadrought made worse by climate change,” the Times noted.
“I want to be clear that these storms — and the likely rain and snow we may get over the next few weeks — did not, nor will they fully, end the drought, at least not yet,” Yana Garcia, secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency,. “We’re in better shape than we were two months ago, but we’re not out of the woods.”
“If you can’t get water out of the dam, it means everyone downstream doesn’t get water,” Brad Udall, a water and climate scientist at Colorado State University, Logs and driftwood remain where they settled from a time when Lake Powell was at its highest ever water level on September 8, 2022 near Hite, Utah.
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