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Will we be ‘wiped out?’ How climate change is affecting California

When the snow disappears, California will lose what for decades has acted as a natural storage system. Alex Hall, a UCLA professor whose research focuses on reducing uncertainties associated with climate change, said there is mounting evidence that the pattern of long droughts followed by big wet years will become more exaggerated.

will we be ‘wiped out?’ how climate change is affecting california

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‘It can become unlivable.’ How Jerry Brown is planning for raging fires and extreme heat

Parfrey is part of a regional climate action and sustainability collaboration at the University of California, Los Angeles, where professor Alex Hall led a groundbreaking study that found climate change will push up temperatures by an average of 4 to 5 degrees by the middle of the century. The number of days where temperatures climb above 95 degrees will roughly double on the coast, triple in downtown Los Angeles and quadruple in the valley.

‘it can become unlivable.’ how jerry brown is planning for raging fires and extreme heat

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A warmer, drier SoCal winter might be on tap

“There are some variations in the atmosphere are really really hard to foresee more than a couple of weeks in advance,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “But…

a warmer, drier socal winter might be on tap