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Study: Global Warming Intensifying California's Drought

KQED News Staff

Aug 21, 2015 at

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This drought is being made a lot worse by human-made global warming. How much worse? Somewhere between 8-27 percent. That's the takeaway in a new study from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The study found that although California's drought was inevitable regardless of global warming, the heat made it worse by sucking up precious moisture from soil and plants.

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