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Report: Warming to hit California hard

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 29, 2009 at 6:15 am

From Riverside’s Press-Enterprise:

The Inland region and other parts of the Southwest are warming faster than most of the nation because of human-induced climate change, and residents here can expect the resulting heat waves, wildfires and water shortages to worsen, according to a new White House report on global warming.

The bleak predictions were part of a climate status report to Congress last week. While it contains no new research, the study paints a more comprehensive picture of the problem in the United States than previous studies and brief updates during George W. Bush’s administration.

The area that includes California faces increasing temperatures, drought, wildfires and invasive species that “will accelerate transformation of the landscape,” the report says. Such changes would threaten agriculture, could lead to extinctions of plants and animals and could spark water conflicts between regions, states and nations.

Though no area is immune from climate change, the Southwest is one of the hardest hit. The combination of natural drought and climate change “could turn out to be a devastating one-two punch for the region,” the authors write.

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June 29, 2009 · Filed Under Climate change & water supply

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