Park Williams on the severity of California’s megadrought | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

Karen Dutko
March 02, 2022
SLAGC News and Events

Publication: Mercury News

UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Ladder Faculty, Department of Geography

Synopsis: A Mercury News article reports on new UCLA-led research which reveals that the current Western U.S. megadrought is the worst one in at least 1,200 years.

UCLA News: Williams discusses the alarming findings of his study. “Here we are 22 years into a bad drought, and because of climate change we are now surpassing the severity of megadroughts that have always been thought of as the worst-case scenarios.”