America’s worsening climate change problem is as polarized as its politics. Some parts of the country have been burning this month while others were underwater in devastating extreme weather disasters.
The already parched West is getting drier and suffering deadly wildfires because of it, while the much wetter East keeps getting drenched in mega-rainfall events, some hurricane related and others not. Climate change is magnifying both extremes, but it may not be the only factor, several scientists told The Associated Press.
The story in the West is really going to be … these hot dry summers getting worse and the fire compounded by decreasing precipitation, said Columbia University climate scientist Richard Seager. But in the eastern part more of the climate change impact story is going to be more intense…