The 2018 wildfire season in California was the largest and most destructive the state had seen to date, resulting in nearly 2 million acres of burned land, thousands of destroyed structures and the loss of 44 lives. Large fires have always been a part of California’s past, but experts believe that the increase in severity…
“Precipitation whiplash” is the term used to describe a region that whipsaws back and forth between bone-parching periods of drought and catastrophic wet periods with flooding. As you can imagine, these conditions are highly problematic… and California is about to find out first-hand just how bad it can get. Precipitation Whiplash: A Recipe For…
Earth Day 2017 – There Is No “Planet B” Earth Day comes but once a year; and, while the very notion of an ‘invented’ holiday can cause many people to simply tune out or ignore it, Earth Day is actually a critically important chance for our society to stop and reflect. We only get one…
If you live in California, you’d better get used to hearing about the “Pineapple Express.” That’s the atmospheric current of moisture that forms over the Pacific Ocean and gets pushed north via the jet stream, and it’s what is responsible for birthing some of California’s recent storms. California is experiencing more and more strange, outlier-type…
Many Californians aren’t aware that the state, by law, is hurtling towards a major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s Executive Order B-30-15, codified into law this month, requires California to be 40 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2030. Ranchers and farmers aren’t in this alone, however. California has launched…
