U.S. climate report forecasts shrinking snowpacks
By Don Jenkins, Capital Press
Snowpacks in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington are expected be much smaller by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to federal projections released Friday.
The Fourth National Climate Assessment, completed once every four years, asserts that the mild winter of 2014-15 may have foreshadowed the future.
“As a harbinger, the unusually low Western U.S. snowpack of 2015 may become the norm,” according to the report.
Wasn’t this similar to the forecast they made 1350 years ago. That forecast proved correct by the trees at the bottom of Fallen Leaf Lake dating from approximately 1250 years ago.