Posted on Jan 10, 2023
Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms
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Climate change is causing the weather around the world to get more extreme, and scientists are increasingly able to pinpoint exactly how the weather is changing as the Earth heats up.
A sweeping new report by top climate scientists and meteorologists describes how climate change drove unprecedented heat waves, floods and droughts in recent years. The annual report from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) compiles the leading science about the role of climate change in extreme weather.
"It's a reminder that the risk of extreme events is growing, and they're affecting every corner of the world," says Sarah Kapnick, the chief scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Earth is already about 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it was in the late 1800s, and scientists warn that humans must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half this decade to avoid catastrophic warming later this century.
Climate change is causing the weather around the world to get more extreme, and scientists are increasingly able to pinpoint exactly how the weather is changing as the Earth heats up.
A sweeping new report by top climate scientists and meteorologists describes how climate change drove unprecedented heat waves, floods and droughts in recent years. The annual report from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) compiles the leading science about the role of climate change in extreme weather.
"It's a reminder that the risk of extreme events is growing, and they're affecting every corner of the world," says Sarah Kapnick, the chief scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Earth is already about 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it was in the late 1800s, and scientists warn that humans must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half this decade to avoid catastrophic warming later this century.
Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms
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Article Quote: “The extreme drought in California and Nevada in 2021, for example, was six times more likely because of climate change.”
This is the quote that sums up this article to be a politically correct hit piece. With the best scientists in the world evaluating so called Climate Change they have to give odds if Climate Change exists; they can’t say Climate Change caused this. These misguided people just can’t understand the difference between weather and climate. MHO
One last comment about that article picture “China's northern Shanxi province”. It is obvious all the vegetated areas in the photo are artificial and manmade. If you construct something in a flood plain, sooner or later it is going to be destroyed. In my opinion it’s not responsible to construct anything in wetland areas unless absolutely necessary because you are taking away habitat from vegetative and aquatic resources.
This is the quote that sums up this article to be a politically correct hit piece. With the best scientists in the world evaluating so called Climate Change they have to give odds if Climate Change exists; they can’t say Climate Change caused this. These misguided people just can’t understand the difference between weather and climate. MHO
One last comment about that article picture “China's northern Shanxi province”. It is obvious all the vegetated areas in the photo are artificial and manmade. If you construct something in a flood plain, sooner or later it is going to be destroyed. In my opinion it’s not responsible to construct anything in wetland areas unless absolutely necessary because you are taking away habitat from vegetative and aquatic resources.
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this worlds climate has been changing since the atmosphere developed. Getting sick of this sky is falling routine. When I was a kid they were talking global cooling and we were going into another ice age. 40 years later they say it's warming, good then we can raise more food to feed more people.
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