IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain: LA Times—California braces for flooding, snowmelt from a warm atmospheric river set to slam state
“It now appears increasingly likely that a potentially significant and very likely warm atmospheric river event will probably affect some portion of Northern or Central California sometime between about late…
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Daniel Swain: Washington Post—Storms keep hammering California and this could soon become a problem
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, tweeted that — even if the snowpack is able to absorb much of the rain that’s to come —…
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Daniel Swain: US Times Post—Yet more rain is expected to hit California in March.
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said about 20% of forecast models are currently depicting a very strong and warm atmospheric river storm in California around mid-March. A series of nine…
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Daniel Swain: Christian Science Monitor—’This is just unreal’: California deals with epic snowfall
“If we can get through the rest of the season without any more roof collapses or snowmelt floods it will be quite a boon,” Mr. Swain said. The snowpack potentially…
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Gregory Pierce: LA Times—California’s snowpack is approaching an all-time record, with more on the way
Gregory Pierce, co-director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA, said it probably makes sense to consider easing some of the most extreme restrictions, but that conservation efforts should…
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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—Warm atmospheric rivers in California forecast could spell trouble for massive snowpack
The risk of flooding could rise dramatically with the arrival of warm rains later this month.
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Daniel Swain: Washington Post—Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It has not ended the drought completely but we’re in a very …
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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said we could see “a historically significant snowfall for parts of the Southern California mountains.” “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some…
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Daniel Swain: Axios—California on track for record snow year as storms cause chaos across state
Climate scientist Daniel Swain noted in an online discussion that in the past decade, California will have experienced some of the most snowy years on record and also “the least snowy years…
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Brad Shaffer & Rachel Blakey quoted in Pepperdine Graphic: Funding Biodiversity Research Provides More Understanding Amid Climate Change Effects
“If you buy into the notion that having biodiversity around you is good for people, then we have to understand enough of the ecology and the biology of the relevant biodiversity in the area to be able to keep it with us,” said H. Bradley Shaffer, distinguished professor in UCLA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department and professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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Daniel Swain: Yahoo News—How climate change is making California’s weather more extreme
“A lot of folks are saying, ‘Everything is getting more extreme, it’s wetter and drier and hotter and colder.’ One of those isn’t true,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain told…
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Morgan Tingley: The European Times—Magnetic Mishaps: Disturbances in the Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Lead Migrating Birds Astray
Earth’s magnetic field, which runs between the North and South Poles, is generated by several factors, both above and below the planet’s surface. Decades’ worth of lab research suggests that…
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Daniel Swain: WTHR.com, The Associated Press—Rainbow appears near Hollywood sign as snow falls near Los Angeles
“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest…
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Daniel Swain: Phys.org—Heavy snow hits parts of southern California
Daniel Swain, a meteorologist at UCLA said a warming climate—caused by humanity’s unchecked burning of fossil fuels in the industrial age—had changed the nature of winter precipitation in the area.…
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Daniel Swain: Mirror—Los Angeles hit by first SNOW blizzard warning in 30 years with winter storms coming
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said: “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some parts of Southern California since the 1980s. “This is a big deal.” He added:…
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Daniel Swain: LA Times—Snowballs at the Hollywood sign: Does it signal the biggest SoCal snow event in decades?
Los Angeles and other nearby counties are bracing for a snowstorm unlike any seen in decades — or possibly ever. “This could be really substantial,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain…
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Daniel Swain: NY Times—California Prepares for Storm That Could Bring Beauty and Chaos
Where I [Vik Jolly, author] live in Riverside County, in the shadow of the Santa Ana Mountains, we haven’t seen snowy hillsides for nearly a decade. But there’s a good…
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Eric Hoek: UCLA Newsroom—Sustainable LA Grand Challenge launches initiative focused on transportation
A new initiative of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge intends to bring UCLA scholars together with community stakeholders to address a rotating list of four key topics related to sustainability: transportation,…
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Daniel Swain: The Press Democrat—Why the new Southern California storms could be so relentless, brutal and dangerous: Snow, rain, big waves, wind
“The mountains certainly will see significant snowfall. The deserts and some of the highest inland valleys might even see a little bit of flurries, although accumulation is less likely,” added…
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Sean Hecht: LA360.com—Earthjustice Adds Managing Atty In California From UCLA
Sean B. Hecht comes aboard as the office managing attorney for the nonprofit environmental law organization after two decades at UCLA
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Susanna Hecht wins Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography
UCLA professor Susanna Hecht has won the 2023 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity from the American Association of Geographers. The award is presented annually to a geographer who has demonstrated…
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Daniel Swain: SF Gate—Nearly entire population of California expected ‘to see’ snow
“Nearly the entire population of CA will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week if they look in the right direction (i.e., toward the highest…
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Daniel Swain: LA Times—Most of California could see snow this week, including the Santa Monica Mountains
“This is shaping up to be a very unusual event,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a virtual briefing Tuesday morning. “We are going to see low [elevation] snow all…
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Edith de Guzman: LA Times — Heat waves are killing more L.A. homeless people who can’t escape broiling sunEdith de Guzman: LA Times
About 150 people die every day in L.A. County during the summertime, but during an extreme heat event the deaths increase by 8% to 30%, according to Edith de Guzman,…
