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More Extreme Weather to Come
YES! Magazine / News Report
Published: Sunday 26 August 2012
“The study found increasing evidence that specific events, and patterns of events—such as floods, heat waves, and drought—can now be linked to human activities such as greenhouse gas emissions.”
In a supplement to their State of the Climate report released in July, climate scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) attributed—for the first time—recent extreme weather events to human-induced climate change.
The study found increasing evidence that specific events, and patterns of events—such as floods, heat waves, and drought—can now be linked to human activities such as greenhouse gas emissions.
Of the six extreme weather events in 2011, the report indicates that five were at least partly caused by climate change. Last year’s record heat wave in Texas was about 20 times more likely to have happened due to climate change than natural variations in weather systems, according to the report.
“Every weather event that happens now takes place in the context of a changing global environment,” commented Kathryn D. Sullivan, deputy NOAA administrator. “This annual report provides scientists and citizens alike with an analysis of what has happened so we can all prepare for what is to come.”
Heidi Bruce wrote this article for It's Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Heidi is a former YES! intern.
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2 comments on "More Extreme Weather to Come "
August 27, 2012 4:44am
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Global Warming - I don't know...but I do know every year we push the temperatures higher and higher.....refrigeration...feel behind it - warm huh....
Every year more air conditions...go stand behind one....
Do people believe the temperatures just disappear ? The heat goes someplace and doesn't disapate....Neuclear tests release how many thousands of degrees....
GLOBAL WARMING....I DON'T KNOW
. . . The same also goes for wionter..inside people want 75 or 80 degrees...out side " ZERO"....how much heat do we keep and how much allow to escape... you can not seal a house perfectly....IT GOES SOME PLACE......All the talk of the ice caps melting ???
REMEMBER . . people in Hell want Ice Water
I do not have the answeres any more than anyone else does....ideas...thoeries....this - that... smoke and mirrors....and an indepth study wouldn't do anything......like neuclear energy - discovered in the 1940's STILL SECRET FROM THE PEOPLE ?.?.? think of WHY
“Climate Change Deniers are Almost Extinct"
I posted my coment to Global Climate Change - - seems it follows this path also……interesting
....I like the line above " attributed—for the first time—recent extreme weather events to human-induced climate change."
August 26, 2012 11:22am
“Every weather event that happens now takes place in the context of a changing global environment,” commented Kathryn D. Sullivan...
This is why we are in trouble. Where has this woman's mind been? There has always been a connection.