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</span>A new study concludes that the chances for a thirty year megadrought in the Southwest is 50%, and the chance for a dust-bowl like ten year drought is 80%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The severity may increase as the temperature rises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-megadrought-forecast-20140829-story.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-megadrought-forecast-20140829-story.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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</span>In California, agriculture consumes 2/3 of the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Farmers facing water shortage are letting land lie fallow and even destroying fruit trees to allow them to use the water elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/California-Drought-Threatens-Nations-Most-Productive-Farming-Valley-273339641.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/California-Drought-Threatens-Nations-Most-Productive-Farming-Valley-273339641.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>In Central America, as many as 2.8 million people are going hungry due to drought, according to a UN report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/30/central-america-drought-idINKBN0GU00320140830"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/30/central-america-drought-idINKBN0GU00320140830</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>1961’s science fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire may have thought it was about nuclear war, but a recent audience perceived it in more contemporary terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/sep/01/doomed-earth-science-fiction-climate-reality"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/sep/01/doomed-earth-science-fiction-climate-reality</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Cool Planet has established a modest business in biochar (treated in a proprietary process), which enhances soil fertility and water retention while sequestering carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The market may grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/02/cool-planet-biochar-charcoal-biomass-energy-gasoline-soil-fertilization"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/02/cool-planet-biochar-charcoal-biomass-energy-gasoline-soil-fertilization</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Climate scientists are professionally dedicated to dispassionate judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An Australian has established a blog to let them tell us how they feel about what they study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Generally, they are pretty worried, but not hopeless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The first letter imagines us achieving a sustainable way of living and others urge us to try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://isthishowyoufeel.weebly.com/"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://isthishowyoufeel.weebly.com/</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Calibri">
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