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Report: Climate Change Contributed to Some of 2020’s Worst Weather

Report: Climate Change Contributed to Some of 2020’s Worst Weather

Noticed in the past 25 years that the summers are getting hotter earlier, but from a climate perspective, as ever, you can truly relate a single weather event, as this is, to the bigger picture, in terms of global warming. that is a difficult match in terms of the science. there is no doubt about it, the summers are getting longer and hotter and drier. we are into yet another drought year in southern california, which as to the problems with the brush and undergrowth being extremely dry and that...

Obama, the Climate Scientist July 25, 2015 Obama, a pre-eminent climate change expert, has declared that climate change is more of a threat than terrorism. He had the audacity to say that terrorism gets the media coverage because it is hyped and brings in viewers. Poverty and climate change are not important to you or me, it isn’t glamorous, nor does it capture our fears like terrorism. It boggles the mind that this man thinks terrorism should be handled like a crime while terrorists threat...

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #5, 2021 BAMS Extreme Events of 2019  The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has published its annual retrospective on 2019s extreme weather events and their connection to climate change, "Explaining Extreme Events of 2019 from a Climate Perspective." The entire collection of articles is available here, (pdf) or as separate pieces down below. Open access, fascinating.  Research productivity The BAMS 2019 reports author country constituen...

Uk and eu, without clarity our companies will invest. and the deal will relate to a very sad brexit read from a climate perspective. the message, mr. speaker, is clear. this deal is not good for jobs, damaging the industry and a threat to our environment and our natural world. its not a good deal for our country. and future generations will feel the impact. it should be voted down today. by this house. mr. speak, i also totally understand the frustration and f fatigue across the country and this...

Year-over-year. so what youre saying is like this is -- this is the policy playing out. these are people taking a signal from bolcinaro. theres evidence of that? >> yeah, so several brazilian news outlets have went to this region and interviewed these farmers, and theyre quoted as saying that they did this to clear land for agra business and inspired by bolcinaro and his rhetoric. >> what are the stakes for folks that are watching this? i think we all grew up hearing about the amazon and defores...

Sort of homage or a signal that they were hearing his calls to open the amazon for business. they were hearing his calls that the amazon should be raised for profit making, and so they were answering his calls. >> so this -- i mean, the year-over-year data is crazy on this. this is a huge increase year-over-year. so what youre saying is like this is -- this is the policy playing out. these are people taking a signal from bolcinaro. theres evidence of that? >> yeah, so several brazilian news outl...

Contribution to local air pollution. but the interesting thing when you look at the large dairy operations, thousands and thousands of cows in one farm that is characteristic of the dairy industry in the united states in general and in california where i was visiting you know when you concentrate that number of animals in a small space, you really have an issue and a concern around local impacts. however, it can be more efficient as a way of producing milk. so those cows which are creating green...

>> yeah. i think the biggest concern i have is the sheer size of the industrial base that is based on our gasoline or diesel instead of fossil fuels. the fact that theres 2 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, theres 100 million new gasoline cars made a year, even if all new cars were electric, it would take 20 years to change out the fleet, and of course, were very far from all new cars being electric. so thats what gives me a lot of concern about the future from a climate perspective. were ...