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    California was warned about climate change 30 years ago; now it's feeling the effects

    by Julia Rosen, Los Angeles Times Jun 28, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Back in 1989, Californians received a sobering warning: The accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere would likely bring more droughts, floods, fires and heat waves to the state.

    In the 30 years since, those projections of what would happen in a warming world have proven to be remarkably prescient.

    "We've already observed some of the things we expected in 1989," said Susan Fischer Wilhelm, a research manager at the California Energy Commission, the agency that compiled the report.

    The assessment laid the groundwork for what has arguably become the country's most ambitious effort to address global warming.

    But to many who worked on the report, looking back on it now only underscores how long we've waited to act - and how much time has been wasted.

    "I felt a sense of pride of being

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