California’s Dual Climate Crisis: Floods and Droughts Dog Disaster Planning

Douglas McIntyre, editor-in-chief of Climate Crisis, discusses California’s climate change-spurred environmental crisis, marked by alternating droughts and floods. The state is enduring a 1,200-year drought, yet also faces massive storms fueled by the Philippine Express, an atmospheric river, that bring large amounts of rain. These extremes make disaster preparedness and resource allocation unpredictable, leaving the state struggling to manage its environmental future.