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Entrancing NASA Model Reveals the Feverish Future of Climate Change
Hotter, wetter weather and new droughts are shown in this weirdly undulating simulation of Earth's atmosphere.
Over the coming decades, sweaty punches of warm air will swoop low into North America, melting snow in the Rockies and Canada and severely reducing the earth's albedo – precious shiny surfaces (snow and ice) that deflect the sun's heat back into space. Without them, the air could turn as balmy and uncomfortable as the interior of a Texas outhouse.
Meanwhile, eastern Africa will be deluged with monstrous rainstorms, some 100 percent wetter than today's tempests, and the Mediterranean will dry out like an unwatered fig on the vine.