AURA

I actually do read the papers, and once, as long ago as 1993, I saw a bit about the feds looking into the possible effects of global warming in the Southwest, where they warned of regional water shortages, corresponding reductions in hydroelectric power, crops, fish, and wildlife due to habitat damage. At the same time it forecast occasional increases in rainfall that, while off-setting snow pack shortages, would be the result of extreme fluctuations in weather patterns ranging from droughts to floods. A few decades later this forecast seems to be coming true.