{"id":1018,"date":"2016-10-24T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2016-10-30T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T22:36:46","slug":"beyond-the-shadow-of-a-drought-megadrought-in-southwest-u-s-approach-certainty-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Shadow of a Drought: Southwest U.S. Megadrought Nears Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/384710\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/82\/California_Drought_Dry_Riverbed_2009.jpg\" alt=\"A dry riverbed in California.\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The risk of a severe, multi-decade drought hitting the Southwest United States by the end of the century could reach as high as 99 percent if greenhouse gas emissions continue along current lines, says a paper by a team of scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University and NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/384710\" target=\"_blank\">Worst Case: Megadrought Risk Near 99 Percent Under Current Greenhouse Emissions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of a severe, multi-decade drought hitting the Southwest United States by the end of the century could reach as high as 99 percent if greenhouse gas emissions continue along current lines, says a paper by a team of scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University and NASA. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond the Shadow of a Drought: Southwest U.S. Megadrought Nears Certainty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,50,74,3,49],"tags":[72,17,25,41,51],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-science","category-water-issues","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-nature","tag-statistics","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}