By Alessandra Bergamin, Bay Nature
Climate change may sometimes seem like a far off event. But the state of California has pulled together evidence throughout the state that climate change is truly in the here and now.
In a recently released report — Indicators of Climate Change in California — the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) highlighted 36 indicators of climate change throughout California. By compiling the results of ongoing scientific research, the agency is showing that climate change is having a significant and measurable impact on the environment.
The climate change indicators — from massive wildfires in the Sierra Nevada to an earlier arrival of warblers at Point Reyes National Seashore — paint a picture of a very different California than the one in which most of us are accustomed.
Here are the Top 10 signs from the report that climate change is really here in Northern California.
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