Californian climate scientists have published one of the timeliest findings in history. Hydroclimate whiplash – a term for the phenomenon of savage seasonal swings between catastrophic rain and sapping drought...is increasing and fast.
Driven by an atmosphere stoked hotter by the burning of fossil fuels, the whiplash is amplifying flash-floods, wildfires, landslides and disease outbreaks, the paper released overnight on Friday found. disallowed/national/hydroclimate-whiplash-the-new-phenomenon-unleashing-deadly-fires-on-our-cities-20250109-p5l34v.html?btis
