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In the recent film Interstellar, a mysterious phenomenon known as "the blight" is wiping out agriculture around the world until only corn\u2014for some reason\u2014survives. Humanity is on the brink of starvation. While the blight may be science fiction, global warming is not, and a new study finds that future warming could decimate the U.S.'s Central Plains and Southwest regions over the next century, topping even the worst drought of the last thousand years.\u00a0"I was honestly surprised at just how dry the future is likely to be," said co-author Toby Ault at Cornell University.\u00a0The research, published in the first edition of Science Advances, found that future drought conditions are likely to exceed a megadrought that swept through the western U.S. in the 12th and 13th Centuries.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-82789","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Future of Droughts in the US Central Plains and Southwest - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the recent film Interstellar, a mysterious phenomenon known as "the blight" is wiping out agriculture around the world until only corn\u2014for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=the-future-of-droughts-in-the-us-central-plains-and-southwest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future of Droughts in the US Central Plains and Southwest - 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