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California faces a future of droughts alternating with floods
2015-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A warming climate coupled with more intense El Nio and La Nia events could cause twice as many droughts and three times as many floods in California by 2080, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications. The findings come while California suffers its most severe drought in recorded history, a four-year disaster that has caused an estimated $2.2 billion in economic loss from 2013-14 alone. At the same time, heavy rainfallwhich triggered mudslides last week in...
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