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May 15, 2008
Will Climate Change Affect the Global Water Supply?
Jonathan Overpeck, director of the University of Arizona's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth said yesterday, in comments made to the House Science and Technology Committee, that "We don't know how climate change will affect water resources."
"Temperature certainly has a major effect on water supply," Overpeck, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist said. "As temperatures goes up, there is an increase in the amount of moisture that the atmosphere can hold, so there will be more demand. It will get the water from soil, forests, agriculture, from plants, it will get them from reservoirs, from any open source of water," as reported by United Press International.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at May 15, 2008 10:52 AM
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