Climate Change's Most Deadly Threat: Drought

By Todd Wilkinson, Christian Science Monitor
Posted on March 6, 2008, Printed on March 6, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/78676/

Spring is on its way back to northern latitudes. In many locales, it will arrive earlier than "normal," yielding, ostensibly, a longer growing season, a hotter summer, balmier autumn, and future winters will lack their ferocious post-Pleistocene bites.

While vineyards are being planned for northern England, millions of residents around desiccated Atlanta are praying for enough rain to flow through their taps.