Sierra lake offers clues about ongoing drought
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
In 2000, researchers took a coring from the bed of a small, shallow lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.
They analyzed the organic matter and chemicals in the sediments to reconstruct a climate record of the past 10,000 years. They then compared it with reconstructions of ancient ocean temperatures.
The results echoed previous studies that have found a link between past periods of climate warming, cool sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean and centuries-long droughts in California and the West.
Does that mean that global warming is pushing California to the threshold of endless drought?
Just centuries long drought in California and the West not endless.
“Very, very poor at predicting” and “uncertain” and “indicate” are not words or phrases a scientist worth his or her salt would use in telling us what the future holds. But it sure generates grant money?