Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Global Warming May Have Fueled March Heat Wave Odds
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-warming-increased-odds-of-march-heatwave-experts-say/[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif][font size=5]Global Warming May Have Fueled March Heat Wave Odds[/font]
March 22nd, 2012
By Andrew Freedman
[font size=3]According to several top scientists, the March heat wave that has shattered records across a wide swath of the U.S. bears some of the hallmarks of global warming.
In email conversations on Wednesday and Thursday, those same scientific researchers who specialize in studying the role climate change plays in influencing individual extreme events — a burgeoning field known as "extreme event attribution” — said global warming may have made March's soaring temperatures more likely to occur, although they add that natural variability has played a key role as well.
…
Although studies have not yet been conducted on the main factors that triggered this heat wave and whether global warming may have tilted the odds in favor of the event, scientific studies of previous heat events clearly show that global warming increases the odds of heat extremes, in much the same way as using steroids boosts the chances that a baseball player will hit more home runs in a given year.
…
Studies that have followed this probability-based approach, such as one that examined the deadly European heat wave of 2003, and another that investigated the brutal Russian heat wave of 2010, have found that changes in greenhouse gases can significantly increase the odds that such severe events would occur.
…[/font][/font]
March 22nd, 2012
By Andrew Freedman
[font size=3]According to several top scientists, the March heat wave that has shattered records across a wide swath of the U.S. bears some of the hallmarks of global warming.
In email conversations on Wednesday and Thursday, those same scientific researchers who specialize in studying the role climate change plays in influencing individual extreme events — a burgeoning field known as "extreme event attribution” — said global warming may have made March's soaring temperatures more likely to occur, although they add that natural variability has played a key role as well.
…
Although studies have not yet been conducted on the main factors that triggered this heat wave and whether global warming may have tilted the odds in favor of the event, scientific studies of previous heat events clearly show that global warming increases the odds of heat extremes, in much the same way as using steroids boosts the chances that a baseball player will hit more home runs in a given year.
…
Studies that have followed this probability-based approach, such as one that examined the deadly European heat wave of 2003, and another that investigated the brutal Russian heat wave of 2010, have found that changes in greenhouse gases can significantly increase the odds that such severe events would occur.
…[/font][/font]
2 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
