Billions depend on water from shrinking snowpacks
By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times
Snowpacks are a vital source of water for humans, but they may shrink in some regions as the climate warms. A study estimates how changes in showfall will affect water supplies.
Justin S. Mankin, an earth scientist at Columbia University, and his colleagues analyzed 421 drainage basins in the Northern Hemisphere that depend on rainfall and snowmelt, and then combined the data with several different climate models.
They found that 97 basins, currently serving 2 billion people, depend heavily on snowmelt. The scientists calculated that the likelihood the basins would receive less snow in the coming century was 67 percent.
Oh my G-d, we are all doomed. More frapola from gov. scientists? It is the Martians that are responsible.
Don’t. Government Scientist gave us a Moon Landing, Hubble Space Telescope and more. The Martians are in your mind.
Now. So far, the 2015 “El Nino” has been a bust for California.
Hey Rock4…
Good comment on the scientists AND the martians.
RE El Nino….Often it is late Dec/Jan that the thing kicks in. Hence the “March miracles” as they call the spring storms that sometimes fill in the snow depths not seen in the earlier part of the season.
There is hope yet.
Meanwhile we have a little snow… enough to get the ski areas running before the December dry spell shuts many non snow making trails down as we have seen before.