• Fleur_@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    What do you mean, they would obviously be measuring in terms of ranges of climates not specific climates and if you consider the size of the shaded regions it makes total sense that the variety of climates experienced in the region is similar to the variety of climates in la/Nevada. It would be unhelpful for a map of this size to have 1000 different regions all hyper specific. Large regions of Australia compared to large regions of other places

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      2 months ago

      Los Angeles is not a desert. Los Angeles has an enormous agriculture industry surrounding the area - farms don’t work well in a desert. LA is a type of savanna, specifically an oak savanna, compared to the high, dry desert of southern Nevada. It isn’t a minor climate shift - they are two radically different environments. The only thing that they share in common is getting hot in the summer.