UCLA In the News April 19, 2021
“If this drought was totally due to natural variability, then we would at least have the comfort of knowing at some point, good luck is very likely to show up again, and this is going to end,” said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist and associate professor at UCLA. “But the knowledge that a fair amount of this current drought is attributable to human-caused climate trends tells us that we may have not seen the worst yet.” Williams was the lead author of a study published last year in the journal Science that analyzed ring records from thousands of trees across western North America to ...