As someone who owns properties in five cities across three states, I'm thinking more and
more about extreme weather and how to manage this risk.
Many users are interested in
information about extreme weather of some sort (heat, precipitation, etc.) These can be difficult to simulate realistically; extreme precipitation is particularly tricky.
Heck, even in the climate world, the left is actively denying the science concerning
trends about extreme weather and even rejects the pause.
As long as we're
talking about extreme weather events and attribution... although Kerry Emanuel is usually the go - to guy for the study of increasing tropical cyclone intensity, his 2005 and 2011 (linked to above by Stefan) papers being the most cited, there is a limitation of scope in that only the North Atlantic basin is covered by these papers, AFAIK.
I've seen many news reports over the past couple of years
about extreme weather conditions which break all previous records, e.g, Europe's heat wave in summer 2003.
Surprisingly, one of the media outlets that got the story wrong was the «media watchdog,» Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), with its piece, «Sandy's climate context: Why generalizing
about extreme weather helps no one.»
Look At the Trends in Extreme Weather and See the State of the World BY EDITOR OF THE FABIUS MAXIMUS WEBSITE ON 5 APRIL 2017 • Summary: Climate activists make bold claims
about extreme weather caused by our CO2 emissions, attributing most big weather events to CO2's influence.
Second City Works created a series of online videos that feature a weatherman providing
forecasts about extreme weather patterns caused by climate change in the United States, each with a drastically different tone.
Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the
headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.
Pupils could write in different genres: a newspaper
article about extreme weather, a cyclical explanation of the year or an informative piece about one particular season.
«With increased awareness about climate change and almost daily news
stories about extreme weather conditions, consumers want to feed their cats in a way that minimizes their ecological footprint,» she said.
As might be expected, the
conclusions about extreme weather in 2012 mirror general understanding of where the strongest influence from greenhouse - gas heating is likely to be manifested: in extreme heat and, in some cases, heavy rain.
When Field accurately describes the SREX
findings about extreme weather hazards, Pielke Jr. misrepresents it as a claim about financial losses, for example responding to Field's quote above about the link between climate change and extreme weather with this quote (emphasis added):
The correlation between climate change and extreme weather catastrophes is being forgotten again and again as the majority of our media
reports about extreme weathers events and the disasters caused by them without making the connection to our changing climate.
Mullin and Egan said their study could not incorporate the effect of extreme weather on people's preferences, adding that a key message is that scientists should talk
more about extreme weather than average temperatures.
For this reason, many people think we should focus first on compensating people harmed by these processes — Pacific islands whose shorelines are gradually disappearing underwater for instance — and
worry about extreme weather events once the science has caught up.