Heavy snow continues to pummel California, prompting some to deny the effect of global warming on US winters by isolating local weather data. But the numbers are cherry-picked from a ski resort that experts say is not representative of the entire state, which has seen a general downward trend in snowpack over the past several decades.
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For most of its 6 million-year existence, the Colorado River ran from the Continental Divide, high in the Rocky Mountains, downward and west, through forest and red rock, to a lush delta at the northernmost tip of the Gulf of California. Its winding descent carved, among other wonders, what people now call the Grand Canyon.Today, the Colorado is so siphoned and stalled by