Panel: US faces change as climate warms - Yahoo! News

Panel: US faces change as climate warms - Yahoo! News: "He said the findings underline that the best way to reduce the effects of global warming is 'deep and decisive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change in the first place.'

The panel warned that shifts in rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising temperatures, increased demand and reduced supplies of water in some places are likely to increase tensions between users — industry, agriculture and a growing population.

'Heavily-utilized water systems of the western U.S. and Canada, such as the Columbia River, that rely on capturing snowmelt runoff, will be especially vulnerable,' the report said."