Question: How much heat does it take to raise Earth by one degree centigrade?
Answer: A lot.
When Earth heats it is not a minor event, it effects the global balance of heat distribution.
Alaskan Tundra (click here)
Global warming is at it again, heating up one of America’s most prized natural possessions at an alarming rate- the breathtaking Alaskan Tundra. Rising temperatures are melting the permafrost, not only destroying the unique ecosystem but also acting as a super boost for global warming in other parts of the planet. The heat is on (no pun intended) for a solution, as we may be seeing more tropical tundra in the future.
The Climate Crisis first evaporates the snow into water vapor used to mitigate global heat. Then it removes the water vapor from the actual soil. That does not happen overnight. Drought is a long term emergency. This level of drought is catastrophic to the biotic content.
28 April 2015
If climate change was a game, (click here) we'd have racked up quite a score. A fresh study suggests that humans are responsible for a hefty number of today's extreme hot days and rainstorms.
Weather extremes, such as a Russian heatwave in 2010 and a drought in Texas in 2011, have been blamed on climate change before – but the attribution of individual events to it is still hotly debated.
So Erich Fischer and Reto Knutti at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, Switzerland, took a bird's-eye view of how human activity is changing the planet. Using 25 different climate models, they calculated how the odds of unusual events – such as a 1-in-100 day temperature high or a 1-in-10,000 day rainfall event – have changed with the rise in global temperatures.
Their results show that global warming of 0.85 °C since the industrial revolution has had a powerful effect. Climate change is now responsible for 75 per cent of our extreme highs in temperature and 18 per cent of extreme rainfall, according to the data. The rarer a particular event, the more likely that warming is the cause, they say....
Alaskan Tundra (click here)
Global warming is at it again, heating up one of America’s most prized natural possessions at an alarming rate- the breathtaking Alaskan Tundra. Rising temperatures are melting the permafrost, not only destroying the unique ecosystem but also acting as a super boost for global warming in other parts of the planet. The heat is on (no pun intended) for a solution, as we may be seeing more tropical tundra in the future.
The Climate Crisis first evaporates the snow into water vapor used to mitigate global heat. Then it removes the water vapor from the actual soil. That does not happen overnight. Drought is a long term emergency. This level of drought is catastrophic to the biotic content.
28 April 2015
If climate change was a game, (click here) we'd have racked up quite a score. A fresh study suggests that humans are responsible for a hefty number of today's extreme hot days and rainstorms.
Weather extremes, such as a Russian heatwave in 2010 and a drought in Texas in 2011, have been blamed on climate change before – but the attribution of individual events to it is still hotly debated.
So Erich Fischer and Reto Knutti at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, Switzerland, took a bird's-eye view of how human activity is changing the planet. Using 25 different climate models, they calculated how the odds of unusual events – such as a 1-in-100 day temperature high or a 1-in-10,000 day rainfall event – have changed with the rise in global temperatures.
Their results show that global warming of 0.85 °C since the industrial revolution has had a powerful effect. Climate change is now responsible for 75 per cent of our extreme highs in temperature and 18 per cent of extreme rainfall, according to the data. The rarer a particular event, the more likely that warming is the cause, they say....
