SNOW MAY VANISH IN THE WEST: “In about 35 to 60 years, mountainous states are projected to be nearly snowless for years at a time if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked and climate change does not slow,” wrote Diana Leonard in an article published by the Washington Post (December 2021)
“A new study provides a glimpse into the future of Western U.S. snow and the picture is far from rosy. Due to rising temperatures, the region has already lost 20 percent of its snowpack since the 1950s. That’s enough water to fill Lake Mead, the nation’s largest human-made reservoir. It stands to lose another half, and possibly more, later this century, from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada and into the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest, according to a literature synthesis conducted in the study leveraging dozens of peer-reviewed climate model projections,” stated Diana Leonard.