(AP) The megadrought in the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200-years. Monday’s study says the megadrought is now the worst-case scenario officials and scientists worried about in the 1900’s. The drought deepened so much in 2021 that it is 5% worse than the old record in the late 1500’s. Scientists compare this megadrought to what would happen in a hypothetical world without human-caused climate change and they calculate that 42% of this drought is due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels.
