ITHACA, New York, July 9 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Climate change lowers precipitation, prolongs drought in Southwest * In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, water managers often asked him about the drought in the Southwest. Was the low precipitation simply an unlucky draw in the cycle of long-term weather variations? What role did climate change play? Most important  more