Devastating Major Floods Coming To California In Next 40 Years Could Be Costliest Natural Disaster In History Experts Say
It’s not an earthquake. And it’s not the big drought. In fact it is quite the opposite. Mega flood. A new study in Science Advances shows that climate change has already doubled the chances of a catastrophic flood in California over the next four decades. And experts say it would be unlike anything anyone alive today has ever experienced. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and a researcher involved in the study, describes a major flood as “a very severe flooding event over a wide area that has the potential to have devastating effects on society in the affected areas....