Arizona: Climate Impact Ground Zero?

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"'A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest', the recent book written by William deBuys, is getting some attention. The NYTimes summed up the book by quoting the author: 'The story of the West is essentially a story about water'. The reporter paused then quoted deBuys again: 'and its lack'.

DeBuys can write and he obviously loves the area. The book is a story of how people have coped with living in the desert in the American Southwest in the distant past, the present, and how climate change complicates what they will have to cope with in the future.

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DeBuys says when he wrote to Tim Barnett at Scripps one time he included a sentence introducing himself which explained his purpose in writing his book: 'I am not trying to write a good guys/bad guys story, just trying to understand how we got into this fix and what our chances are for getting out.' Barnett took this as a question: what are our chances for getting out of this?

He wrote back: 'NIL. If climate change scenarios are reasonably correct.'"

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