By Craig Miller, KQED Science/KQED News Fix
Federal climate scientists say that California’s drought, now in its fourth year, is not likely the product of human-induced global warming.
A new report, based on seven models that ran 160 “reenactments” of the last three years, concludes that “perhaps about two-thirds of the precipitation deficits” of the last three years have been the product of various convergent factors, including “a randomness of the atmosphere,” says Marty Hoerling, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Earth System Research Laboratory and one of the study’s co-authors.
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