UC Study: Vital Sierra Snowpack Could Slowly Disappear Amid Climate Change

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

BERKELEY (CBS SF) — A group of researchers at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have come up with a rather frightening future scenario — climate change could significantly dwindled down the Sierra snowpack, dramatically impacting water supplies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

While the researchers don’t believe snow-capped peaks will become a thing of the past, they do think that the deep snowpack that drains off during the spring runoff may shrink considerably.

The results of their study was published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment this month.

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