Climate Change, Extreme Weather
Climate change has had a significant effect on recent extreme weather changes. This fact has come to our knowledge in many forms, the most influential of which has been the amount and severity of weather disasters that have plagued our world. Especially in the last 5 years, the US has felt the severity and harshness of climate change. This month, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, have conducted their first comprehensive analysis on projected climate changes in North America and other U.S. territories. Previously, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had conducted a similar test but on a broader scope which focused on global results. However before this recent analysis, there had not been a specific report on the climate changes across North America alone.
According to this analysis, droughts, heavy downpours, extreme heat and strong hurricanes, could all become more common across the globe. This will be the result of human influence and effects, on high concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. This analysis is based on strong scientific evidence which heavily indicates that a ‘warmer world’ will cause high changes in the strength, length, location and frequency of extreme weather occurrences.
According to Tom Karl, of the the National Climate Data Center, in Asheville, N.C., “This report addresses one of the most frequently asked questions about global warming: what will happen to weather and climate extremes? This synthesis and assessment product examines this question across North America and concludes that we are now witnessing and will increasingly experience more extreme weather and climate events”.
Unfortunately, over the past 50 years the negative impacts of global warming which has occurred is directly linked to human caused- heat trapping gases. During these 50 years, many unusal weather occurences have occurred, and will continue to occur.
Some of the unusal/severe consequences of climate change, which are expected to occur are:
- Unusually hot days and evenings, heat waves, as well as a decrease in very cold evenings
- Rain will be less frequent, but more intense during times of percipitation
- Increased drought
- Stronger hurricanes, with stronger winds and rain
- Continued melting of sea ice in the Arctic
- Stronger cold season storms, in the Atlantic and Pacific, with stronger more extreme waves
Join with Starry Night Lights in the struggle against global warming and its cosequences. In order to protect our environment, ourselves and the livestyle we’ve come to hold dear, we must make the appropriate steps to lessen global warming and climate change. Buy energy efficient appliances- protect the environment.
This entry was posted on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 6:57 pm and is filed under Do It Yourself, Starry Night Lights, energy star, environment, global warming, green building. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Leave a Reply
