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Originally Posted by Sun Belt-lover L.A.M.
I find it highly likely that they're going to become a desert. They're overdue for a megadrought (the last one was before Columbus arrived), they're a steppe even between megadroughts, and neighboring regions to the west (western Texas, parts of Colorado, much of Wyoming, much of New Mexico, western Montana) are already desert.
I hope I'm not wrong. It's probably too late to save the Greenland Ice Sheet and Amazon Rainforest, and we're going to need the albedo increase a new desert would provide to make up for those losses.
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s wasn't a megadrought? Hmm..
There is very little desert in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. Especially Western Montana which for the most part is very forested and FAR from being a desert. The few patches of desert that exist in the states you listed have been deserts for thousands of years, well before humans had any impact on the climate.
The Greenland Ice Sheet will be fine. The Amazon will be fine.
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