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Who Is the Jon Snow of Climate Change?
Center for Climate Science associate director Katharine Reich and UCLA climate law experts explore the parallels between the HBO hit fantasy saga Game of Thrones and climate change in the…
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The Extreme Heat to Come
Climate researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created forecasts of how many days of extreme heat — defined as more than 95 degrees — the Los Angeles region could expect if nothing was done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Downtown Los Angeles, for example, now has roughly a week’s worth of extreme heat days a year, said Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at U.C.L.A.
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Record snow, record snowmelt?
“The amount of accumulated snow in the Eastern Sierra is large enough that it will almost certainly lead to a flood when it melts and drains into the Owens Valley,” UCLA climate researcher Alex Hall wrote in an e-mail interview.
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Climate Change Is Causing More Sweltering Summer Days
“In most places, when you get a heat wave now, there is probably a human finger print,” says Daniel Swain, an author of the paper and a climate scientist at…
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Climate Feedback: Analysis of “One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor”
Daniel Swain, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability: Overall, this piece accurately describes the findings of a new research paper by Mann et al on linkages between rapid…
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New Scientist: Quarter of California’s snowpack loss is from human-made warming
In 2015, after four years of drought, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California hit a record low. Global warming is to blame for a quarter of that…