MSNBC Katy Tur Reports June 4, 2024 18:55:00
The visual manifestcation of climate change in the western united states looking at lake mead or its sister reservoir lake powell. climate change has a strong fingerprint on exactly what we're seeing on lake mead. when the atmosphere warms it holds more water so you're sucking -- the air is essentially sucking the landscape dry, drying out our plants and forests as well as our crops. >> that is the macro. you have, of course, the micro. we're talking about a place that brings in $3 are 50 million every year. this was kind of lake-adjacent 20 years ago. the docks have to continually move down t...