WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The Senate Budget Committee released the following written testimony by Roger Pielke Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, from a hearing dated May 22, 2024, entitled "Droughts, Dollars, and Decisions: Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate": * * * Summary: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human-caused climate change influences the global hydrological cycle in the context of significant natural climate variability. Influe  more