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Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life
In just a few decades, summers in California will not only be much hotter, but will also stretch for months longer. Floods will become more widespread and extreme. Exposure to wildfire smoke will kill thousands more people every year.
Those are the dire projections of California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment, a report produced by California every few years that analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.
The future laid out in the report, which was published on Monday, touches on familiar warnings: more wildfires, bigger storms, longer droughts. But it illustrates in unsettling detail just how quickly the climate is being reshaped, and reveals what is likely to be major upheaval to long-established ways of life in California.
According to the report, average temperatures are likely to increase in California by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of the century. Current warming in California is unprecedented compared with the past century and estimates for the past millennium, the report shows.
Dire! 4F in 24 years even though it’s only gone up 1.7F since 1850.
A longer summer means a shorter winter for California, and warmer temperatures are expected to blanket lower-elevation ski resorts with rain instead of snow. The snowpack is expected to fall by 60 percent by 2100.
The report also found that without major intervention, as much as three-quarters of California’s beaches could disappear — either seasonally or permanently — by 2100 because of coastal erosion. In that same time frame, sea level rise is expected to threaten $78 billion worth of property because of coastal flooding.
The state’s agricultural industry is expected to take a major hit as well.
Dire! It’s so tedious.
