Daniel Swain (climate scientist at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability) was quoted in stories in the AP/Los Angeles Times and the Weather Channel about a University of Arkansas study finding that warming temperatures have exacerbated drought conditions in the West, and that the region may be experiencing a two decades-long “megadrought.”

Swain, who was not involved in the study, said the research is important because it demonstrates that “human-caused climate change transformed what might have otherwise been a moderate long-term drought into a severe event comparable to the ‘megadroughts’ of centuries past.”

Read more at Los Angeles Times and The Weather Channel.