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Scientists find that climate change is contributing to droughts in the American West, even without rainfall deficits

The Enterprise Bridge passes over a portion of nearly dry Lake Oroville on September 30, 2014 in Oroville, California. Credit: Andrew Innerarity/California Department of Water Resources Rising temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned a normal drought into an abnormal one, drying out the American West from 2020 to 2022. A study by climate scientists at UCLA and the National…