The Reality of a Warmer World: Climate Change in San Diego

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Published April 18, 2007 at 3:30 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

How could climate change affect San Diego? How will we cope with the reality of a warmer world -- a world where wildfires and drought would be common. We'll examine the risks to California and San Die

How could climate change affect San Diego? How will we cope with the reality of a warmer world -- a world where wildfires and drought would be common. We'll examine the risks to California and San Diego from global warming with Richard Somerville, a leading climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Mainstream scientists now agree that the earth is getting warmer and that humans are the main cause. But questions remain --- how cataclysmic and destructive of a phenomenon is climate change? And can each of us as individuals really do something significant to short circuit climate change?

Guest

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Richard Somerville , theoretical meteorologist and distinguished professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, coordinating lead author of IPCC report.

(Listen to highlights from KPBS radio series "A Matter of Degrees: Climate Change in San Diego" tomorrow morning on These Days at 9 a.m. [89.5 FM on your radio dial.] )