Climate Change is HERE in Malibu and All Of California
Written by 991KBU on May 9, 2018
It’s here.
Global warming is having measurable impacts on California …. a new comprehensive California Environmental Protection Agency report states.
Bigger, more intense forest fires, longer droughts, warmer ocean temperatures and an ever shrinking snowpack in the Sierra Nevada are “unequivocal” evidence of the ruinous domino-effects that climate change is having on California.
The state’s largest fire ever … just 40 miles away from Malibu … is evidence of the local danger.
25 people killed … 440 houses lost in the Thomas Fire and the subsequent Montecito landslides.
The 350-page report released today tracks 36 indicators of climate change, including a comprehensive list of human impacts and the effects on wildlife, the ocean, lakes, rivers and the mountains.
The risks are coming into sharper focus. The report reinforces and amplifies the messages we’ve already seen” says one researcher.
It shows a dramatic increase in temperatures since 1895, especially since the early 1980s. The warmest year in California history was 2014, followed closely by 2015, 2017 and 2016. Most alarming of all, though, are night temperatures, which have increased 2.3 degrees over the past century, the report notes.
The report is here: https://oehha.ca.gov/climate-change/document/indicators-climate-change-california
