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Hence, a warmed environment (and we've seen the ten warmest years on record since 1980) will see both more aridity (due to increased evaporation) and precipitation (when those clouds finally let loose).
If anything, they veer in the opposite direction--"dumb enough to be a conceptualist," to paraphrase Duchamp--but is banality the only antidote to aridity?
A recent study showed that the current La Niña-a one-to-two-year pattern of severe winters in the northern states and aridity in the Southwest-may be part of a decades-long oscillation in the world's climate.