Summary of Projected Climate Change Impacts on California
For more information on the impacts of climate change in California and for insight into region-specific variations, explore CA’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment and the Indicators for Climate Change in California report.
Climate Change & The Future of Southern California
Climate Change and the Future of Southern California is an essays publication which introduces readers to the scenarios, impacts and potential responses with respect to climate change. It is written mainly from the perspective of Southern California.
California’s climate is changing. Southern California has warmed about three degrees (F) in the last century and all of the state is becoming warmer. Heat waves are becoming more common, snow is melting earlier in spring—and in southern California, less rain is falling as well.
The clear links between the California wildfires and climate change
Jan 10, 2025 · Scientists at ClimaMeter said their research shows that climate change made Southern California several degrees hotter, 15 percent drier and 20 percent windier — creating the ideal conditions...
How climate change is projected to alter California flooding, …
Feb 8, 2024 · As rising temperatures, driven by fossil fuel-burning and accumulating greenhouse gases, continue to heat the atmosphere and oceans, the storms that build over the Pacific and reach California...
Floods and droughts: Hydroclimate whiplash is accelerating | UCLA
Jan 9, 2025 · This, ultimately, is the key climate change connection to Southern California wildfires.” Under a high warming scenario, California will see an increase in both the wettest and driest years and seasons by later this century.
Intensifying climate whiplash linked to California fires, study finds ...
Jan 9, 2025 · The devastating wildfires that have ravaged Southern California erupted following a stark shift from wet weather to extremely dry weather — a phenomenon scientists describe as “hydroclimate ...
Climate change and California sustainability—Challenges and ... - PNAS
Jul 29, 2024 · California possesses a rich and heterogeneous environment. The State is typified by a distinctive “Mediterranean-type climate” (winter precipitation, warm dry summers). While large areas share a relatively arid climate with much of southwestern North America, the northwestern coast supports temperate rainforest.
State Key Findings - California Climate Change Assessment
31 to 67 percent of Southern California beaches may completely erode by 2100 without large-scale human interventions. $17.9 billion worth of residential and commercial buildings could be inundated statewide by sea level rise by 2050, with a projected 50 cm (~20 in) of sea level rise.
Climate change: What role is it playing in the California fires
Jan 9, 2025 · Climate change has made the grasses and shrubs that are fuelling the Los Angeles fires more vulnerable to burning, scientists say. Rapid swings between dry and wet conditions in the region in ...