February 24, 2011 How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we’ve seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science. An international team of scientists led by Curt Stager of Paul Smith’s College, New York, has compiled four dozen paleoclimate records from read more Ancient Catastrophic Drought Leads to Question: How Severe Can Climate Change Become? Extreme megadrought in Afro-Asian region likely had consequences for Paleolithic cultures – C. Stager