Climate change is ravaging Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, warn scientists. What can be done?

From wetlands to badlands, plants and wildlife in eastern San Diego County are struggling to survive. Ecologists face tough decisions about how to respond.
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[@bobclonts2675]

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[@anewguy08]

planet Mars has water and ice at one time...

[@bee4pcgoldrule.007]

Those mex fan palm wont go away any time soon.

[@BrandonRoa-us4dm]

Anza borrego used to be filled with water millions of years ago. Do you think our industrial revolution caused all the water to dry out? Or is it natural for our climates to change in a cycle? Farmers should do a better job of preserving the aquifers, but that water is going to dry up regardless of what we do to try and stop it.

[@JPKnapp-ro6xm]

I'm really impressed with how much more you commenters know about this subject than the experts do. You are so smart! I admire you enormously!

[@tingtongtom...droneoperato2440]

They don't appear to be experts at all. Great propagandists though.

[@bobclonts2675]

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[@dapinkcat]

OHHH STOP!!!

[@e.a.r.9155]

"Man-Made Climate Change".. Is as about as Genius as believing in Global Warming 👍

[@dfmayes]

Good report on a very alarming situation. Thanks.

[@adventureawaits5003]

Thanks for sharing

[@adventureawaits5003]

Love the Anza Borrego Desert it's crazy to imagine it's going through an extinction event

[@markmitzlaff8672]

People seem to think that the earth doesn't naturally go through environmental changes. It has ice ages then gets warm again. If anything the earth will warm a bit more then go into another mini ice age.

[@spazchicken1]

Going to the agua caliente hot springs next week ☺️

[@catfoodgeneration]

The entrenched denial of immanent catastrophe displayed by many of these comments is terrifying.

[@nanallen1]

Oh come on. Who is paying you to broadcast this crap ? The southwest has been drying out for thousands of years. We were in Anza Borrego just a few years back for an amazing super bloom. Migrating broad wing hawks were eating thousands of caterpillars. We expect dry spells/ wetter spells in the southwest.

[@pod831]

This is stupid: it's a desert, it's a area used to very hot climate. A little more heat won't make any difference.

[@allisonbeaudry4066]

It’s apparent that you know very little about the sensitive environment of the desert.

[@cherylehudson84]

@@allisonbeaudry4066 Have you ever been to Borrego?

[@pod831]

@@allisonbeaudry4066 Ive spent a lot of time exploring the desert; it is neither sensitive or fragile.

[@allisonbeaudry4066]

Me too. Just because it’s a harsh environment, doesn’t mean it isn’t fragile, ask any park ranger there and they will tell you the same.

[@allisonbeaudry4066]

@cherylhudson yes, I have spent a great amount of time camping there.

[@emack76]

Wait, if deserts are so important, why are we covering them with solar panels? Furthermore, vegetation has increased by 30% globally, unlike what is stated here. They talked about a lot of things here that aren't climate change related.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Really, 30%? According to who

[@emack76]

@@magesalmanac6424 NASA - look it up. If CO2, our policies, and the temperatures continue on their current trajectory, in 2100 we’ll have as much forest on earth as we did in 1900. CO2 is literally fertilizer for plants. Crop yields are at an all Time high. Why don’t we hear about this in the news? Hrm…

[@anarmyoftigers]

Green cover typically means more trees. That’s a lot of trees(which suck in a lot of co2), but the problem is most of those trees are non native and out-compete the native species.

[@franksnyder1038]

Yikes.

[@2-old-Forthischet]

We are our own worse enemy. The population grows exponentially but elements are constant.