Matthew Lachniet, Professor of Geology – Department Chair - Paleoclimatology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Dr. Dan Mcevoy, ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR, CLIMATOLOGY
Posted on 06/19/2021 4:59:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — It's been a historically hot week and it's only mid-June. So, what do we have in store for the rest of the summer? 13 Action News spoke with two climatologists to find out if this is the new normal in Southern Nevada and how much of this heat is tied to climate change.
Matthew Lachniet, a climate scientist at UNLV, and Dan McEvoy, a regional climatologist with the Desert Research Institute and the Western Regional Climate Center, agreed that it's difficult to directly blame this week's historic heatwave on climate change, but they believe it is a contributing factor.
Much of the west is also dealing with a historic drought, with Southern Nevada right in the middle of it. Lachniet and McEvoy say it's easier to attribute our current drought to climate change.
"What we have seen recently and what climate models do show we will see more of in the future is more rapid changes from extremely wet to extremely dry, this idea called precipitation whiplash, where you can have one year that’s extremely wet and you’re more likely to have an extremely dry year following that and this bouncing up and down from extremes. We do expect more extremes under climate change and we’re already seeing more of that," McEvoy continued.
If you're wondering what you can do to help mitigate climate change and the warming we're experiencing, climatologists encourage you to think long-term.
They say the more carbon we emit into the atmosphere, the hotter the atmosphere will get, so any way you can reduce your carbon footprint will help. They're also counting on lawmakers to make policy changes that will create widespread change.
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Matthew Lachniet, Professor of Geology – Department Chair - Paleoclimatology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Dr. Dan Mcevoy, ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR, CLIMATOLOGY
Run! Run, everybody!!!! Run!!!!
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!!
They even look like Chicken Little.
Hot and dry in the desert. How unexpected!
Jet stream....it’s always the mover on this. Weatherman said it will pass in a couple days. In the meantime...grab a cold shower and stay in the shade. Maybe you can get that neighbor..wink, wink...to fan you.
I'm just so amazed at the brilliance of that statement.
BS.
This time last year “the planet was healing”.
Perhaps the fact of the matter is that all the smog and pollution have been actually “protecting” us
As an ancient mariner that I’ve worked around for 33 years, with a doctorate in meteorology, put it: It’s mostly a roulette wheel of where the jet stream flows inside a cycle, which is inside another cycle, which is inside several other layers of cycles. Barring a catastrophic global event, such as an asteroid collision, it take hundreds of thousands of years to move the needle on the average climate.
True, when its below normal some place, its above normal somewhere else. Its just weather. Weather is not climate.
*yawn* that’s “weather” you idiot leftests!
If you do not tow the line on the Climate Scare Scam, you do not get or keep a job as a government climatologist.
The kicker: “.....agreed that it’s difficult to directly blame this week’s historic heatwave on climate change, but they BELIEVE it is a contributing factor.”
Two young professors who have to watch their step if they want to receive grants from a politically correct establishment, I really dont care what they “BELIEVE”. I rely on science and facts.
Yeah, because it has never been hot and dry in Las Vegas before.
This is weather, not climate change you dolts!
And yet May 2021 was one of the coolest on record but let’s not talk about that.
Good old Jet Stream finally doing me a favor.
The weather in my neck of the woods has been just fine! A little cooler than normal and lower than normal humidity.
I just wish it would stay like this all summer. The humidity really drags me down these days.
Joe bastardi always has an interesting take on this.
I guess all these climate clowns were not around in 1977 in ca where the state had a water emergency. Imagine that a water emergency in the desert.
Or it could be part of God’s judgement on this country for allowing sick and depraved lifestyles to flourish.
Funny, I don't remember hearing that title when I was younger.
Gaydar
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