California, battered by global warming’s weather whiplash, is fighting to stop it | Dana Nuccitelli

Hit by record droughts and rainfall and wildfires, California leads the way in tackling global warming

In 1988 - the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human-caused global warming - water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California:

California will get the worst of all possible worlds - more flooding in the winter, less available water in the summer.