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The top non-local story at the Los Angeles Times is the satellite detection of an apparent Pacific Ocean temperature pattern--much bigger than any El Niño--that has scientists arguing about whether the world is about to experience a decadeslong climate change that might include droughts in Southern California.
The title of the book refers to the custom in New Mexico of feeding cattle cactus to keep them alive during droughts.
It's biblical--from hurricanes to blizzards, droughts to floods, and the occasional plague of locusts for good measure.
With all this talk of upheaval ("Nature's Bedlam," as Nature on the Rampage likes to call it), you'd think we were suffering a plague of chaos--record numbers of Category 5 hurricanes, epic tornadoes, droughts, and the like.
High and dry: The WP reveals an unexpected effect of the area's recent droughts.