To help avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change,
ranging from extreme heat, droughts, and storms to acidifying oceans and rising sea levels, the United States must play a lead role and begin to cut its heat - trapping emissions today — and aim for at least an 80 percent drop from 2005 levels by 2050.
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According to a recent article published in Weatherwise, titled «The Weather and Climate of Arizona,»
extreme weather events,
ranging from «
heat to cold and dryness to floods... dust storms, forest fires, and unparalleled lightning displays» are all too common in Arizona.
«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of
extreme weather and climate events
ranging from more intense
heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.
Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average, after an
extreme marine
heat wave
from about 2014 to 2016 disrupted the California Current Ecosystem and shifted many species beyond their traditional
range, according to a new report
from NOAA Fisheries» two marine laboratories on the West Coast.
According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of
extreme heat waves) the connections between today's
extreme weather events and human - driven climate change
range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or coastal vulnerability.
It's worth considering the lessons of Chicago in the context of the devastating loss of close to 15,000 people in France during Europe's devastating 2003
heat wave, with the death rate, not to mention the chaotic aftermath, a function of a host of factors
ranging from global warming shifting the odds of
extreme heat to social norms leaving old people in harm's way.
Heat waves,
extreme precipitation events and flooding or
extreme droughts, are also what actually cause climate damage — for instance lower agricultural productivity (as during the extremely hot 2003 summer in Western Europe) or biodiversity decline at ecosystem levels
ranging from aquatic desert systems to entire rainforest biomes.
Their work encompasses a
range of problems and time scales:
from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in
extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various
extremes (
heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.
The authors note that many impacts of climate change are already visible,
from the shrinking
ranges of some species to the frequency of
extreme heat waves.
Earth is able to support a wide variety of living beings because of its diverse regional climates, which
range from extreme cold at the poles to tropical
heat at the Equator.
Researchers led by Hans de Boeck
from the University of Antwerp report that they looked at a wide
range of studies of what scientists call ecosystem stability and biodiversity during climate
extremes — that is, unusual
heat, drought or flooding.
Because there is no atmosphere to trap
heat, the temperatures on the Moon are
extreme,
ranging from 100 ° C at noon to -173 ° C at night.
9.3.1 Global Mean Response 9.3.1.1 1 % / yr CO2 increase (CMIP2) experiments 9.3.1.2 Projections of future climate
from forcing scenario experiments (IS92a) 9.3.1.3 Marker scenario experiments (SRES) 9.3.2 Patterns of Future Climate Change 9.3.2.1 Summary 9.3.3
Range of Temperature Response to SRES Emission Scenarios 9.3.3.1 Implications for temperature of stabilisation of greenhouse gases 9.3.4 Factors that Contribute to the Response 9.3.4.1 Climate sensitivity 9.3.4.2 The role of climate sensitivity and ocean
heat uptake 9.3.4.3 Thermohaline circulation changes 9.3.4.4 Time - scales of response 9.3.5 Changes in Variability 9.3.5.1 Intra-seasonal variability 9.3.5.2 Interannual variability 9.3.5.3 Decadal and longer time - scale variability 9.3.5.4 Summary 9.3.6 Changes of Extreme Events 9.3.6.1 Temperature 9.3.6.2 Precipitation and convection 9.3.6.3 Extra-tropical storms 9.3.6.4 Tropical cyclones 9.3.6.5 Commentary on changes in
extremes of weather and climate 9.3.6.6 Conclusions
[Response: Your argument misses the point in three different and important ways, not even considering whether or not the Black Hills data have any general applicability elsewhere, which they may or may not: (1) It ignores the point made in the post about the potential effect of previous, seasonal warming on the magnitude of an
extreme event in mid summer to early fall, due to things like (especially) a depletion in soil moisture and consequent accumulation of degree days, (2) it ignores that biological sensitivity is far FAR greater during the warm season than the cold season for a whole number of crucial variables
ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to transpiration rates, and (3) it ignores the potential for derivative effects, particularly fire and smoke, in radically increasing the local temperature effects of the
heat wave.
Solutions presented by the selected startups
ranged from deriving power
from extreme heat to an ice thermal energy storage system, and
from energy generated by waves to an energy marketplace.