NPR, Aug. 19, 2015 In search of a drought strategy, California looks down under Australia survived, though. It came through that drought, in fact, “with no discernible decline in the quality of life!” says David Feldman, professor of policy, planning, and design at the University of California, Irvine. “I think there’s a lesson there.” … Australians now treasure their water in a way that most Californians still don’t, Feldman says.
The Washington Post, Aug. 20, 2015 The crucial question of just how fast West Antarctica could melt
Indeed, two noted ice sheet experts – Eric Rignot of NASA [and UCI] and Isabella Velicogna of the University of California, Irvine – recently joined former NASA scientist James Hansen as co-authors of a controversial paper … which asserts that “several meters” of sea level rise due to ice sheet loss could occur within 50, 100, or 200 years, depending on how fast the rate of ice loss is able to double.
The Washington Post, Aug. 20, 2015 Global warming worsened the California drought, scientists say
Amir AghaKouchak, a hydrology professor at the University of California, Irvine who said in June that science did not support connecting the drought to warming, said the report’s results show that human influences are having an effect.
The Weather Channel, Aug. 19, 2015 Wildfires, hurricanes share remarkably strong link, study says
Discovered by Yang Chen, associate project scientist at UCI …. “North Atlantic hurricanes and Amazon fires are related to one another through shared linkages to ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Atlantic Ocean,” said Chen.
