Is Severe Drought Causing The Western US To Geologically Lift?

Friday, August 22, 2014 - 06:50 in Earth & Climate

Global warming has been implicated in many things, it is certainly being implicated in the latest drought in California, the worst since 2002, which was the worst since the early 1990s -and now it is being linked to a change in tectonic plates. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at U.C. San Diego say that the loss of water is causing the entire western U.S. to rise up like an uncoiled spring. read more

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