With the California Department of Water Resources reporting last week that Sierra snowpack is at 118% of normal for this time of year (compared to 63% of normal at this time last year,) area papers today theorize on how climate change will continue to impact our future supply. Here are two interesting articles:

In the North County Times, UC San Diego research marine physicist Tim Barnett explains how a warmer world could mean drastically less water for Southern California.

Meanwhile, the LA Times today takes a look at Gin Flat, one of the primary sites for recording state snow levels. The story would not be complete without the interview with Frank Gehrke, California’s snow survey chief. Known as the “don of the Sierra Snowpack,” he points to climate change as the major cause of our erratic snow levels.

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