奥拉AURA

我经常看报纸,早在1993年,我有一次读到一些关于联邦政府调查全球变暖对西南地区带来的不利影响，他们警告说,地区水资源短缺,水力发电量减少,各类作物、鱼和野生动物栖息地被破坏。与此同时，该机构预测，降雨量有时会增加，这虽然会缓解积雪短缺的问题，但可能是干旱和洪水等天气极端模式波动的结果。几十年后，这一预测似乎正在成为现实。
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.