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LA is looking at a lot more extreme heat by 2050
It’s going to be getting a lot hotter in LA, according to a study released this week by UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
The study shows that by the year 2050 Southern California could see more than twenty extremely hot days averaging above ninety-five degrees. This is more than double the amount of hot days LA currently experiences.
J.R. DeShazo, director of UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation joins us to discuss what is causing this drastic rise in temperature and which areas of LA will be most vulnerable to these extreme heat waves in the years to come.
Guest:
J.R. DeShazo, Lead Investigator of the study and Director of the Luskin Center for Public Policy and Urban Planning at UCLA