Brutal heat, extreme floods and plumes of wildfire smoke have hammered the U.S. Scientists predict a climate of extremes in report after report as the Earth warms because of fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.
this winter in the southern Sierra mountains. Because a warmer atmosphere can absorb more water vapor, atmospheric rivers are expected to grow stronger as the world warms.as the city reported its 13th day above 110 F on Thursday, as a prolonged heat wave cooked the desert Southwest, according to weather service data. The weekend forecast calls for high temperatures of 118 F in Phoenix. Death Valley, California, could approach 130 F.
In recent years, scientists have performed attribution studies to determine just how improbable a weather event would have been in the cooler climate of the past. Scientists determined a June 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the impacts of climate change. Aif global temperatures had not warmed so much because of human activity.
This year’s events have yet to be so thoroughly analyzed. But scientists see the string of events as a part of a larger, undeniable pattern of extremes that’s intensifying over time. “The individual drivers of these events — of course we cannot say anything about them right now — but in general, these are consistent with what we would expect,” Deepti Singh, an assistant professor in the school of environment at the Washington State University Vancouver, said of record-breaking temperatures. “It’s not surprising that we’re seeing these concurrent widespread extreme heat events across multiple regions around the world.
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