Sunday on ABC's This Week Governor Jerry Brown of California made the connection between California's extreme weather and climate change.
The situation in California is dire with 100% of the state in drought and much of that being exceptional and extreme drought. The drought has made vegetation very dry and created a tinderbox at great risk for wildfires. California is now in a very serious fire season and firefighters there have already seen more than twice the usual number of fires by this time most years.
“As we send billions and billions of tons of heat-trapping gases, we get heat and we get fires and we get what we’re seeing,” Brown said. “So, we’ve got to gear up. We’re going to deal with nature as best we can, but humanity is on a collision course with nature and we’re just going to have to adapt to it in the best way we can.”
Gov. Brown is fittingly harsh on climate deniers: “It is true that there’s virtually no Republican who accepts the science that virtually is unanimous,” he said. “There is no scientific question — there’s just political denial for various reasons, best known to those people who are in denial.”
California's drought and wildfires threatens to cripple California agriculture industry which is the US top farming state.
Climate change is here now. We are feeling the impacts here in US but the worst is yet to come.