It's hard to believe there are still
people who deny global warming and climate change. But there are. Even Donald
Trump is a climate change denier. While many people may refuse to believe it,
it is effecting them. Great changes in the weather, with more intense storms is
now happening. The best example is the flooding going on right now in Texas . Some folks are
beginning to notice. But the majority of
US citizens need to head the warning now before these changes become so permanent
that they can't be changed. The rest of us will have to learn to live with the
consequences of global warming for some time to come. So here is an article
from a British publication.- SJ Otto
From The
Guardian:
A new
study finds a human fingerprint in the wettest month on record in Texas and Oklahoma.
In some instances,
areas are experiencing more severe droughts and more
flooding as the weather systems swing from dry to wet quickly. Added to this is
the fact that ocean temperatures have an enormous influence on weather.
As an example, an El
Niño, which is the appearance of a warm water pool in the Pacific
Ocean , can influence weather across the globe. Human-caused
warming of the oceans adds to the El Niño cycles, which in turn affect the
atmosphere. The real scientific question is, do human greenhouse gases
influence a specific flood or drought event? A growing body of science is
finding that the answer to this question is yes.
A paper just
published in Geophysical Research Letters looked at the May 2015 floods in Texas and Oklahoma in
the USA ,
which resulted from the wettest single month on record in both states. The lead author, Dr. Wang from
Utah State and his colleagues examined the
role of strengthened El Niño teleconnections on the flood event. Before getting
into their conclusions, a little background is important.
For the rest click
here.
No comments:
Post a Comment