... demand in most regions; Water resources will be stressed in many regions. For example, snowpack is declining in the West, and there is an increasing probability of drought in the Southwest, while floods and water quality issues are ... ice caps and glaciers, rising sea levels, epidemic diseases, and extreme weather events, even though a great deal of scientific evidence has emerged on these threats ...

... here… Facing a ten year drought and a 90 percent reduction in Sierra Nevada snowpack, California, Arizona and Southern Nevada have at best a two year supply of their own ... a result of the accelerated melting of Greenland’s glaciers, the temperate weather along those coasts will deteriorate into what may be a repeat of the “mini iceage” experienced 12, ...