Global Warming and the Drought in California

We Californians, living as we do in severe drought conditions, have a general sense that climate change is playing a role here.  It’s not exactly rocket science that rising temperatures tend to evaporate more water, leaving less of it in the ground where it is available to our plants and animals.

Here’s a paper on the subject from the American Geophysical Union, a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 62,000 members from 144 countries, now in its 96th year.