Laura Paskus, "At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
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Climate Change in the Southwest
Book is called at the precipice a. So could you describe what the climate precipice actually looks like for new mexico and the southwest? For an already arid place like new mex Mexico, this warming increases our water in security. We see things like increased evaporation, increased transformation. Our forests and our crop lands all demand more water the warmer it is. But we also have less in less water all the time. Is part of our hydrological cycle. And so as we see things drying out, like forests, we also see increased wild fire danger,. bigger wild fires, more severe wild fires.
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