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A Temperature Roller Coaster Could Be Coming
NPR ^ | May 2, 2018 | by Christopher Joyce

Posted on 05/03/2018 6:54:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

New research suggests that global warming could cause temperature swings to get unusually extreme. And the regions where the biggest swings will occur are among the poorest in the world — and the least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.

Climate scientists already know that as the planet warms, there's a bigger chance of extreme weather: bigger hurricanes, for example, or heavier rainfall.

But a temperature roller coaster could be on the way as well, according to the study, which appears in the journal Science Advances.

Sebastian Bathiany at Wankeningen University in the Netherlands says his calculations indicate that variations in temperature will increase - the normal swings between high and low temperatures will get wider. The variations aren't apparent yet but will be in coming decades, Bathiany says.

This won't happen everywhere, because different conditions affect temperature in different parts of the world. In the tropics, soil moisture plays a big role in moderating or "buffering" temperature swings, according to Bathiany. It's kind of like the so-called Goldilocks effect — moisture keeps temperatures somewhere in between very hot and very cold.

But a warming atmosphere dries out the soil. "And when you have drier conditions," says Bathiany, "then the temperature fluctuations are not buffered as much any more, so you have larger temperature variability."

Bathiany says if the planet continues to warm, temperature variability will be especially pronounced in the Amazon Basin and parts of Africa and Southeast Asia — wet places where a warming climate is drying things out.

Many countries in these regions "are not only poorer to deal with the impacts," he says, "but also in this case the impacts will be worse" than in other parts of the world.

Worse because temperature variation in places like Europe and the U.S. isn't expected to change much. Variation in northern latitudes isn't dependent so much on soil moisture but on atmospheric weather patterns. In fact, temperature variability may actually decrease in those regions and in the Arctic — but with a notable exception: Summertime in the U.S. could see more temperature extremes.

Extremes, in fact, seem to be part of what a warmer world will bring. Another new study found that California will see more extreme wet and dry periods this century. They're calling that the "whiplash" effect of global warming.


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To: Oldeconomybuyer
> "Climate scientists already know that as the planet warms, there's a bigger chance of extreme weather: bigger hurricanes ..."


41 posted on 05/03/2018 7:38:24 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...says his calculations...”

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. “


42 posted on 05/03/2018 7:39:49 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here in Michigan we just endured one of the coldest Aprils in history.


43 posted on 05/03/2018 7:43:03 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AlGore, please save us from The Evil temperature swings.....please....gasp, cough.....argh....


44 posted on 05/03/2018 7:47:37 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Paladin2

Yogi Berra said that ...


45 posted on 05/03/2018 7:48:37 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
New research suggests that global warming could cause temperature swings to get unusually extreme. And the regions where the biggest swings will occur are among the poorest in the world — and the least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.

New research suggests(hints, proposes, leads, maligns) that global warming could cause (might cause, may cause, should cause) a person not believe anything these researchers say.

46 posted on 05/03/2018 7:50:54 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: rjsimmon
When do we get to start screaming: “We’re all gonna die!!!”?
A little less than a minute before your post. ;-)
47 posted on 05/03/2018 7:53:25 AM PDT by Tunehead54
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBkVV9xxCHE


48 posted on 05/03/2018 7:56:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ah, first it is continual warming. Then it became climate change, when they saw their model beginning to stray from what they wanted. Now it is roller coaster temperatures.

Whatever happened to the temperature models that failed and are still failing? How will they model roller coaster temps? Will their product it be 95% consensus science?

It is impossible since the people who made the heating model will have to throw out everything they believe. Except one world government.

49 posted on 05/03/2018 7:56:15 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the regions where the biggest swings will occur are among the poorest in the world — and the least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.


50 posted on 05/03/2018 7:59:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"And the regions where the biggest swings will occur are among the poorest in the world"

Talk about reality meets parody.

'World to end. Women and minorities hit hardest'.

51 posted on 05/03/2018 8:04:03 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just stop with the global warming NONSENSE. We are NOT paying for you to try and control the weather! So just piss off


52 posted on 05/03/2018 8:23:47 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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Here where I am it is steadily getting warmer!!!!!!

I predict it will reverse itself and start getting colder 6 months from now.

It’s a roller coaster! Now send cash. Lots and lots of cash.


53 posted on 05/03/2018 8:37:31 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The cure - rural cleansing and taxation into slavery. Just ask them.


54 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:34 AM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...the biggest swings will occur are among the poorest in the world...”

Ah yes, global warming is selective, I see. It’s sentient! It’s a new life form!


55 posted on 05/03/2018 9:13:07 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bullsiit


56 posted on 05/03/2018 10:36:25 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (For what profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is there anything Global Warming can’t do?


57 posted on 05/03/2018 10:39:00 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hot = Global Warming

Cold = Global Warming

Wet = Global Warming

Dry = Global Warming

Ok, that covers all the bases so no what the weather does its Global Warming.

58 posted on 05/03/2018 11:30:17 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Weather Report for Tampa in the near future (according to morons*). Today's temperature will be 80, tomorrow will have highs in the 30s, the day after highs will be in the 130s...

* The Climate Change 'Scienists'...

59 posted on 05/03/2018 11:51:46 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: HamiltonJay
Yep, we had frost here in the SE this week. I've never seen that before.

So... "Temperature Swings".

Hotter = Global Warming

Colder = Global Warming

No change = Worry about Global Warming

60 posted on 05/03/2018 12:19:51 PM PDT by wbill
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