Comments on: Connecting the Dots: Extreme Weather and Global Warming http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wildfires in California « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-55160 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:26:36 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-55160 [...] the California wildfires, exacerbated by drought and high winds. This fire tops off a year, where a half-million acres were burned in Greece and 63 people killed, and the tundra has started burning. A new term has been coined for these events: [...]

]]> By: Carlos Rymer http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-52502 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:31:07 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-52502 Yup. And the 5-6 cyclones that slammed Vietnam last Winter. And the two cat. 5 hurricanes we’ve seen so far in the Atlantic this year. And… if you compile everything that’s going on that’s really not normal, you can see why global warming is to blame.

]]> By: Kit Stolz http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-52441 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:21:47 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-52441 Amen. I think you could have added the flooding in England and China this year (in former case, the Prime Minister attributed it to climate change, in the latter case, it waa a Chinese government agency). Not to mention the flooding in California in January 2005, and along the mid-Atlantic in June 2005.

Some reporters are beginning to hint about the likely connections between global warming and these kind of “natural disasters,” especially in the UK, but I think it would help if more readers pressed them to consider it. You know people are talking about it: Why can’t we discuss it in print, as well?

]]> By: Brad Arnold http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-52439 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:49:26 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/09/03/connecting-the-dots-extreme-weather-and-global-warming/#comment-52439 Leemans and Eickhout (2004) found that ecosystem adaptive capacity decreases rapidly with an increasing rate of climate change.

If the rate should exceed 0.4 C/decade, all ecosystems will be quickly destroyed.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global average temperature today is increasing by 0.2 C/decade.

This increase is caused by greenhouse gases we put into the air decades ago (due to the lag time between emission and temperature rise).

We have emitted nearly double the greenhouse gas since then, and are increasing our emissions at a rate of over 3% per year.

Therefore, in the next couple of decades we are facing the quick destruction of all the world’s ecosystems, which will result in abrupt climate change (I suggest reading the Pentagon’s alarming report on this subject).

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