This year has been a doozy for climate change. February is on pace to break all sorts of records for the warmest ever recorded. Washington DC, for example, has temperatures similar to Honolulu the past few days. And it’s not just a blip: each year that passes has broken records from the previous year for hottest year on record.

Here in California we’re now experiencing what scientists have warned about: extreme drought followed by extreme rain.  We just finished a record drought and are now on pace for record rainfall this year.

These extremes are badly stressing our infrastructure, from dams like Oroville to shuttered highway around the state.  To discuss the state of infrastructure in an age of climate change, I participated today on a press briefing via Climate Nexus.

I was joined on the panel by:

• Noah Diffenbaugh, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Inst. for the Environment, expert on climate change & impacts in CA.
• Juliet Christian-Smith, Senior Climate Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, expert on water infrastructure.

We received questions at the end from members of the press, but the discussion could be of interest to anyone.  Here is the audio: