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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Global warming leads to more [b]extreme[/b] weather including but not limited to snowstorms, droughts, and hurricanes. I think people take the warming to literally mean "it's called global [b]warming[/b], so that must mean everything is going to be 100 degrees."
This is overly simplified.
[quote]The question of global warming stopping is often raised in the light of a recent weather event - a big snowfall or drought breaking rain. Global warming is entirely compatible with these events; after all they are just weather. For climate change, it is the long term trends that are important; measured over decades or more, and those long term trends show that the globe is still, unfortunately, warming.[/quote]
https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm
https://www.skepticalscience.com/Global-Warming-Cold-Winters.html
As for brush fires:
[quote]As the climate warms, moisture and precipitation levels are changing, with wet areas becoming wetter and dry areas becoming drier.
Higher spring and summer temperatures and earlier spring snow-melt typically cause soils to be drier for longer, increasing the likelihood of drought and a longer wildfire season, particularly in the western United States.
These hot, dry conditions also increase the likelihood that, once wildfires are started by lightning strikes or human error, they will be more intense and long-burning.
The costs of wildfires, in terms of risks to human life and health, property damage, and state and federal dollars, are devastating, and they are only likely to increase unless we better address the risks of wildfires and reduce our activities that lead to further climate change.[/quote]
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/impacts/global-warming-and-wildfire.html#.Wk5LXN-nFPY
https://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/global_warming_101#.Wk5L6N-nFPY
This is overly simplified.
[quote]The question of global warming stopping is often raised in the light of a recent weather event - a big snowfall or drought breaking rain. Global warming is entirely compatible with these events; after all they are just weather. For climate change, it is the long term trends that are important; measured over decades or more, and those long term trends show that the globe is still, unfortunately, warming.[/quote]
https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm
https://www.skepticalscience.com/Global-Warming-Cold-Winters.html
As for brush fires:
[quote]As the climate warms, moisture and precipitation levels are changing, with wet areas becoming wetter and dry areas becoming drier.
Higher spring and summer temperatures and earlier spring snow-melt typically cause soils to be drier for longer, increasing the likelihood of drought and a longer wildfire season, particularly in the western United States.
These hot, dry conditions also increase the likelihood that, once wildfires are started by lightning strikes or human error, they will be more intense and long-burning.
The costs of wildfires, in terms of risks to human life and health, property damage, and state and federal dollars, are devastating, and they are only likely to increase unless we better address the risks of wildfires and reduce our activities that lead to further climate change.[/quote]
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/impacts/global-warming-and-wildfire.html#.Wk5LXN-nFPY
https://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/global_warming_101#.Wk5L6N-nFPY
