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GlobalWarming Awareness2007
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- Temperature Rising; Feeling a Bit Warm? You May Just Have to Live with it. The Pacific Northwest has got warmer by 1.5 degrees since 1900, about a half-degree higher than the global average. Since 1949, snowpack in the Cascades, a primary source of water, has declined 50%, due to unusually warm weather, which is changing the precipitation cycle. More water is falling as rain and less as snow, a natural banking system that holds the precipitation until the spring. Over the past two years, the state was hit by a severe drought. The governor declared an emergency, ski resorts closed.
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