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Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds

LA Times  

As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered — and then burned. “But based on the hellaciously warm temperatures in that month, the significant heat wave events, we can say that those conditions certainly helped enable fuels to become incredibly available and provided less resistance to fire, once a fire …

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AI: World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10-12 years
1 year, 11 months ago

AI: World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10-12 years

Associated Press  

The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that’s more pessimistic than previous modeling. “And this paper may be the beginning of the end of the 1.5C target.” Stanford …

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Extreme heat waves are making L.A. firefighters sick, adding new dangers to job
2 years, 4 months ago

Extreme heat waves are making L.A. firefighters sick, adding new dangers to job

LA Times  

The first pager alert came Wednesday at 3:02 p.m. Brian McGrath of the Ventura County Fire Department said heat-related illness is now a “constant concern.” “It’s hot, it’s dry. “It’s going to result in an increase in vapor pressure deficit — things are going to get drier — and when you have extreme dryness and extreme heat, you’re going to …

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California is suddenly snow-capped and very wet. But how long will the water rush last?
3 years ago

California is suddenly snow-capped and very wet. But how long will the water rush last?

LA Times  

Skiers and snowboarders enjoy fresh snow at Mountain High in Wrightwood. “Most areas have already seen what they saw last water year and then some, just in the three months we’ve had.” Evidence of the atmospheric rivers that hit Northern California this fall and winter is apparent in this precipitation map. The agency’s latest three-month precipitation outlook now shows “equal …

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Did Climate Change Make That Freak Weather Even Worse?
3 years ago

Did Climate Change Make That Freak Weather Even Worse?

Wired  

In June 2003, while he was still a graduate student, Noah Diffenbaugh attended a scientific conference with his adviser in Trieste, Italy. Diffenbaugh, now a climate scientist at Stanford University, had caught the leading edge of the 2003 heat wave—the hottest European summer since the 16th century. Averaging temperature measurements over the entire world helps scientists ignore the random vicissitudes …

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Q&A: La Nina may bring more Atlantic storms, western drought
4 years, 3 months ago

Q&A: La Nina may bring more Atlantic storms, western drought

Associated Press  

La Nina — which often means a busier Atlantic hurricane season, a drier Southwest and perhaps a more fire-prone California — has popped up in the Pacific Ocean. An El Nino means more strong crosswinds that can decapitate storms, but a La Nina means fewer, allowing storms to grow. Meteorologists don’t quite know enough about what La Nina does in …

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Everything Is Unprecedented. Welcome To Your Hotter Earth
4 years, 4 months ago

Everything Is Unprecedented. Welcome To Your Hotter Earth

NPR  

Welcome To Your Hotter Earth Enlarge this image toggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images The upshot of climate change is that everyone alive is destined to experience unprecedented disasters. Enlarge this image toggle caption NOAA via AP NOAA via AP Hurricanes and climate change Climate change is making the air and water hotter, and …

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We Just Lived Through The Hottest Decade On Record
4 years, 11 months ago

We Just Lived Through The Hottest Decade On Record

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Humans have just lived through the hottest decade on record, data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show. “We are experiencing the impacts of global warming unfolding literally in real time,” Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford earth science professor and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, said on a Tuesday press …

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Global warming shrank Indian economy by 31 per cent
5 years, 8 months ago

Global warming shrank Indian economy by 31 per cent

India TV News  

Global warming has caused the Indian economy to be 31 per cent smaller than it would otherwise have been, according to a Stanford study which shows how Earth's temperature changes have increased inequalities. "Our results show that most of the poorest countries on Earth are considerably poorer than they would have been without global warming," said climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh, …

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