Wildfires, Heat Waves, Sea Level Rise to Be Increasingly Destructive to California, State Climate Change Report Warns – EcoWatch
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Article Synopsis – Climate change will create a devastating new normal in California of intense heatwaves, destructive fires, eroding beaches, and a shortage of freshwater if nothing is done to curb emissions, a new state report finds. California’s fourth-annual Climate Change Assessment finds that by 2050, deaths from heat waves in cities could double or triple and the snowpack water supply could decline by two-thirds. By 2100, large fires will increase by 50 percent and burn 77 percent more land, and 31 to 67 percent of California beaches could erode. To read the actual article click here.