The West Without Water, what past floods, drought, and other climate clues tell us about tomorrow. day trips from San Diego An introductory chapter summarizes the

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The West Without Water, what past floods, drought, and other climate clues tell us about tomorrow. day trips from San Diego An introductory chapter summarizes theThe West without Water merges climate and paleoclimate research from a wide variety of sources as it introduces readers to key discoveries in cracking the secrets of the regions climatic past. It demonstrates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods have plagued the West with regularity over the past two millennia and recounts the most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 186162.