San Jose Mercury News: Climate change is real and unfolding, and the outlook for California is bleak.
A series of state-sponsored scientific studies released Tuesday warns that California can expect more scorching heat waves, severe and damaging wildfires, emergency room visits and strain on the electric grid as the Earth continues to warm and sea levels rise along the state’s 1,100-mile long coast.
Higher temperatures in the next decade means that far more of the state’s 37 million people will depend on air conditioning–increasing…