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There's a higher comment that addresses this. It can effect the overall range of events, meaning both ends of the spectrum. A clearer example is that is can inc
by bumby 4y ago
There's a higher comment that addresses this. It can effect the overall range of events, meaning both ends of the spectrum. A clearer example is that is can increase the probability flooding as well as droughts; they don't have to be mutually exclusive.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoYes. It's always been about more extreme weather - more droughts, more floods, more tornadoes, more hurricanes, more extreme storms, heavier snow storms, and so on. Most areas will get warmer, some areas will get colder. Sometimes they'll alternate. Some years and seasons will be less extreme than others, some will seem normal, but the trend will be clear. Systems which were built for the old normal will fail more and more frequently, and at some point they'll stop working permanently.
- WorldMaker 4y agoSame with it can cause unseasonably cold days and unseasonably warm days, those aren't mutually exclusive and the range of extremes is expanding in many regions. Which remains a big reason to avoid "global warming" as a term anymore when discussing climate change. Even extreme winter storms are a consequence of climate change and the additional energy in the climate affecting all types of weather. Early climatologists phrased it as a growth in heat in the planet and that earned the nickname "global warming", which is correct enough on a long enough scale, but the real problem of climate change is that it is a ton of additional energy (per Thermodynamics Laws same thing, different side of the equation) in the climate. (For instance, additional energy in the case of winter storms meaning stronger winds which mean lower wind chill temperatures and more precipitation [snow].)