Waymouth, B. (2017, March 09). Climate change puts California’s snowpack in jeopardy in
future droughts. Retrieved March 11, 2017, from http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/climate-change-puts-california-s-snowpack-under-the-weather
According to a UCLA newsroom article, California has limited time before one of its major snowpacks melts completely. The Sierra Nevada snowpack is an extremely important source of water; this particular snowpack provides over 60 percent of the state’s water through dams and reservoirs. As climate change becomes an increasingly dangerous topic, California needs to find a way to preserve its snowpacks disappear during droughts because with the current rates of emissions, the snowpack is said to decrease by 85% by the end of the century. One idea that could potentially solve this problem is to use groundwater aquifers as a storage mechanism.
The reason this is linked to environmental science is because humans need snowpacks and sources of water to live in places that we call home. If we do not stop emitting greenhouse gases, we will no longer see snowpacks during droughts. I believe that this is a massive problem that we need to overcome as soon as possible, and we can all help by decreasing our output. Hopefully we can get out of this drought and see the water sources back to a healthy level.
This is extremely concerning as us Californians have already had a lot of trouble staying out of droughts, and if this is as bad as UCLA says, its water is going to be a lot more scare in coming years, and that us always a terrifying thought.
I agree with you, climate change is bad for the animals that live in cold areas, because they are losing their homes, climate change is literally melting their homes away.