<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/051daff8-b536-4db8-ae58-9233bec633c5/910E8BF1-37A8-4E05-878B-A9C28A6395BD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16516-drought-warning-as-the-tropics-expand.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16516-drought-warning-as-the-tropics-expand.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16516-drought-warning-as-the-tropics-expand.html"><P><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html">The climate models quoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</A><IMG class="artxicon" title="Contains audio content" alt="Speaker" src="http://www.newscientist.com/img/icon/artx_audio.gif" /> predict that the <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126935.400-europe-to-feel-the-heat-of-climate-change.html">Mediterranean region</A> and the <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426074.300-us-southwest-could-be-heading-for-a-megadrought.html">south-west of the US are heading towards devastating droughts</A>. Reichler says this latest study suggests this is a result of the poleward march of the tropics.</p> <P>Southern California is already subtropical in the summer. But with climate change, dry conditions could spread to areas like northern California, Washington and Utah, which now get far more rain and snow.</p> <P>According to a recent survey by the <A target="ns" href="http://www.water.ca.gov/">California Department of Water Resources</A>, the snowpack on California's mountains is currently carrying only 61% of the water of normal years. The Sierra snowpack alone provides two-thirds of California's water supply, and these mountains have so far only received one-third of the expected annual snowfall, despite December and January normally being the wettest months.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/910E8BF1-37A8-4E05-878B-A9C28A6395BD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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