SF Chronicle | May 08, 2018
Bigger, more intense forest fires, longer droughts, warmer ocean temperatures and an ever shrinking snowpack in the Sierra Nevada are “unequivocal” evidence of the ruinous domino-effects that climate change is having on California, a new California Environmental Protection Agency report states. “If I were going to look across North America, ground zero for climate change is the Arctic. It is just changing really, really rapidly,” noted ESPM professor Steven Beissinger. “But California is an important laboratory to understand the effects of climate change on biodiversity.”