Gavin Schmidt writes, «The suggested «doubling» of the rate of warming in the future compared to even the most
extreme scenario developed by IPCC is thus highly exaggerated.
Not exact matches
In fact, climate scientists have
developed increasingly accurate
scenarios about the impact climate change is having already in supercharging
extreme weather events.
The weather model showed that
extreme summertime surface temperatures
developed when carbon dioxide emissions were assumed to continue to increase about two percent a year, the «business as usual»
scenario.
In order to see the effects of
extreme heat events on the United States, the researchers
developed models to simulate
scenarios analogous to that of Europe's for heat - sensitive urban areas.
Some of these methods are also used to
develop scenarios of
extreme weather events.