California Transformational Resilience Network

Climate change could leave Californians with 'weather whiplash'

Bob Doppelt 4/24/1812:16 AM

April 23, 2018

(CNN) California is known for its Mediterranean climate. Dry summers and wet winters providing the perfect conditions for a robust agricultural economy, world-renowned wineries and idyllic weather make it the top tourist state in the country.

But these same factors leave California vulnerable to shifts in climate, and the weather patterns that traverse the region are conducive to dramatic swings between drought and flood, a sort of "weather whiplash."

Unfortunately, those dramatic swings are becoming more common and will continue to do so in the coming decades thanks to manmade climate change, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

These climate extremes have significant impacts on society, and swinging rapidly from one extreme to the other only makes mitigation and adaptation that much harder.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0...plash-wxc/index.html

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The "weather whiplash" described in the article will create increasingly psychological and psycho-social-spiritual maladies in California. It is vital to start now to prepare Californians for these adversities by building widespread levels of Transformational Resilience.

Note: Although this study focused on California, this types of physical impacts--and much more--will occur worldwide as climate change worsens. Again, it is essential to get out front of these issues now by ensuring that every adult and youth learns Transformational Resilience information and skills.

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