Posted on 12/14/2017 11:13:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Extreme weather left its mark across the planet in 2016, the hottest year in recorded history. Record heat baked Asia and the Arctic. Droughts gripped Brazil and southern Africa. The Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst bleaching event in memory, killing large swaths of coral.
Now climate scientists are starting to tease out which of last year’s calamities can, and can’t, be linked to global warming.
In a new collection of papers published Wednesday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, researchers around the world analyzed 27 extreme weather events from 2016 and found that human-caused climate change was a “significant driver” for 21 of them. The effort is part of the growing field of climate change attribution, which explores connections between warming and weather events that have already happened.
In the future, scientists are hoping to refine and standardize their attribution methods, so that a community hit by a storm, wildfire or other extreme event can learn much more quickly how that event might have been swayed by global warming — and take steps to adapt.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Every year is hotter than the previous and Congress never votes to lower its salaries.
I think not.
And the Houston Comical, I mean, Chronicle, had this on the front page this morning.
Global warming made Hurricane Harvey’s 51 inches of rain three times more likely to occur when comparing today’s climate to that of the 1880s, scientists say.
The globe is warming. Sometimes, it is cooling. Man has exactly zero to do with either condition.
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