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This is a good and interesting report, thank you. As you implied, this is about averages, which is useful though incomplete. "Global Warming"/"Climate Change"

This is a good and interesting report, thank you. As you implied, this is about averages, which is useful though incomplete. "Global Warming"/"Climate Change" is, to state something pretty obvious, about additional energy in an active system. That means, of course, more total heat across the entire system. However, I think a far more important aspect is how much more active the system as a whole gets. I don't have time to get into it in detail here, but overall that means there will be more and more extremes. More droughts. More floods. More severe winds. More heat waves. More freezing storms. We're already seeing that in action and the rate at which the number of extremes increase will tend to increase as more energy is sent into a somewhat chaotic system.

ouroboros1 6y ago
> However, I think a far more important aspect is how much more active the system as a whole gets. I don't have time to get into it in detail here, but overall that means there will be more and more extremes. More droughts. More floods. More severe winds. More heat waves. More freezing storms. I don't think there is much evidence to support this relationship. I'd be glad to be proven wrong.
- eloff 6y ago
  Basically as you add energy to the system things get more extreme. Storms including hurricanes and monsoons. Dry places and times get dryer due to increased evaporation. Wet places and times get wetter (more severe floods). It's a predictable consequence of higher temperatures.
- Diederich 6y ago
  https://sites.nationalacademies.org/BasedOnScience/climate-change-global-warming-is-contributing-to-extreme-weather-events/index.htm https://sites.nationalacademies.org/BasedOnScience/climate-c...
  - ouroboros1 6y ago
    Ah! Thank you