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# Just the facts
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/just-the-facts-3/
- Published: 2022-08-30T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-30T13:00:00.000Z
- Author: user
- Tags: Featured, News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

**Water:** Scientists have said climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. Across the American West, a 22-year megadrought deepened so much in 2021 that the region is now in the driest spell in at least 1,200 years.