{"id":610607,"date":"2015-07-27T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=new-mit-study-on-the-historical-climate-of-the-american-west"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:56:00","slug":"new-mit-study-on-the-historical-climate-of-the-american-west","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=new-mit-study-on-the-historical-climate-of-the-american-west","title":{"rendered":"New MIT study on the historical climate of the American West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All around the deserts of Utah, Nevada, southern Oregon, and eastern California, ancient shorelines line the hillsides above dry valley floors, like bathtub rings \u2014 remnants of the lakes once found throughout the region. Even as the ice sheets retreated at the end of the last ice age, 12,000 years ago, the region remained much wetter than it is today. 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