Drought Facts

The drought is affecting more than 50% of the lower 48 states and it also affects Hawaii and Alaska. We are in a record year for high temperatures, again. There is a major price to pay for pumping billions of tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere year and year, in fact we are increasing the number of billions of tons year after year, and we are planning to pump even more carbon emissions into the atmosphere through the future.

Here's a formula you might need to know -> F = 1.8*degrees_C +32

(Degrees in Fahrenheit equals 1.8 times Degrees in Celsius + 32.)

Let's do the math and see what a 2 degree Celsius increase in temperature equals in Fahrenheit.

F = 1.8 X 2 + 32 = 35.6 degrees

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