…Most westerners are unaware of prehistoric extreme climate events that complete the regions long-term climate pattern.  During millennia, climate has often varied by extremes in the American West.  Close examination of the evidence suggests that the benign past century and half have not prepared us adequately for what could come in the future

So wrote B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud in the book Roam, The West Without Water, What Past Droughts, Floods and other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow.

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