The California Drought: Is this the big one?
Submitted by radioecoshock on Wed, 05/03/2014 - 10:56amAustralia is no stranger to drought, or predictions of long-term drying. It's possible early settlers in both Australia and California simply lucked out on a long cyclical wet period, to be followed by much worse.
Scientists in North America have discovered past droughts in the southwest, including California, lasted hundreds of years. Is this the start of the big one?