Sure, growing pineapples in Toronto might be fun, but what do you think will happen in Kansas when the summer heat gets cranked up to broil, and
changing weather patterns dry up all the rain for a few months at a time?
Not exact matches
The prospect of another very hot and
dry season and a
pattern of fluctuating extreme
weather is
changing the appetites of rural property investors.
According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as
weather patterns in the region
changed, the land started to
dry out and affect the animals» food supply.
El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that
changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to
dry out as rainfall
patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Thursday 28th December Bright crisp morning wind
change with the South - East breeze showing signs of influence, hopefully a
weather pattern to
dry Noticeable current bushing into the bay with the first signs of the predicted... [Read more...]
For the exhibition Op losse schroeven (On loose screws) organised by Wim Beeren and Edy de Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Boezem hung white bed sheets out of the first floor windows of the museum to function as a wind vane, to indicate the
changing patterns of the wind and
weather, but also to mock the Dutch habit of placing the bedding in the open window of one's house to
dry.
On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a
weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is
dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a
change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).
Since the millenium, exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is
drying up),
weather patterns have
changed drastically, winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).
However, these conditions are precisely what you would expect as the Earth warms:
weather patterns change, temperature records get broken, conditions go from normally wet to
dry, normally
dry to wet.
It may not be that the WORLD is
drier when there are fewer sunspots, but that our
weather patterns change (we appear to be having a lowering of the jetstreams towards the equator recently).
Yet models seem to suggest many areas of the earth will become much
drier, thanks to
changing weather patterns (althought they often disagree on which areas will warm the most, which ones will get the wettest, etc).