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Excerpt: Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life
VX News here republishes a New York Times article by Soumya Karlamangla on California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment, released October 19 by the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. The report projects about 4°F of warming by midcentury, a summer season lasting 135 days, and a 40 percent drop in Sierra Nevada snowpack. It also warns that up to three-quarters of the state’s beaches could disappear by 2100.