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We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal

We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal

by The Daily Eye Team December 22 2014, 1:39 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 43 secs

Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable ? all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out of whack. Thanks to a rapidly changing climate making wet regions wetter and dry regions drier, 2014 will be the hottest year on record ? and, if we?re not careful, the Bay Area?s recent #HellaStorm will soon become the norm. Everyone in the state knows the severity of the problem: we?re in the midst of our worst drought in 1,200 years; our winter snow pack, which provides approximately one-third of the state?s water supply, was at record lows in 2014; last winter?s weather was the warmest in the last 119 years; and ocean surface temperatures off the coast of California are at record highs. The wrath of a warming planet is being felt more powerfully than ever before.

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