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Originally Posted by Aces4
Wait.. I thought the glaciers melting were causing flooding and heavy rainfall everywhere. You have to keep your crisis straight.
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Please....... that is the VERY DEFINITION of Climate Change - that some areas have drought because of higher earth temperatures and some areas have floods because the warm air holds more moisture. The climate has more EXTREMES because of overall warming. Right now in Wisconsin, they are having problems with heavy, wet snow at around freezing temperatures (above average), which are causing many trees to fall down on the roads.
When these EXTREMES are integrated together like with core samples or ocean level increases you find the pattern where the Earth began heating AFTER the Industrial Revolution and the corresponding population increase.
What I said about glaciers was that their melting was causing the oceans (salt water) to rise, Fresh water rivers in the US get their volume source from melting glaciers on the Rocky Mountains, which have been drying up out west in recent years. The same situation of dryness has caused increased forest fires in the West during recent years.