Sunday 16 November 2014

2014 Warmest Year On Record.

Not one, not two but three organisations have released data at the same time to confirm that 2014 is set to be the warmest year on record.
Data from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the National Climatic Data Centre all peg temperatures in October as above average which continues the trend that shows not only is the earth warming, but so are the oceans which have been sucking up the CO2 and drives up further global temperatures.
While individual hot years or months don’t necessarily stand out, it’s notable that all 10 of the warmest years on record have all come since 1998, and the trend for extreme weather moving upward according to a the U.S. National Climate Assessment to the American Meteorological Society.
The Environmental Defence Fund have broken down the changing weather patterns they have been seeing and why.
The rain patterns are changing are there is more moisture in the atmosphere from a warmer world and changes in circulation patterns as stubborn to shift high and low pressure systems deflect storms which are holding more moisture due to greater evaporation in the warmer conditions and throwing down more intense rain.
The changing weather patterns and deflected weather patterns means that while some places get more than their fair share of rain and subsequent floods, others get none leading to droughts conditions which increases evaporation from the soil which in turn dries out the soil and the incoming sunlight heats the ground, instead of evaporating water in the soil which creates a vicious cycle of more heat and less rain.
All of which points towards unless society curbs its emissions of heat-trapping gases, these trends will not only continue but worsen and future generations will be justified on asking why did we not do something about it while we still had the chance.
The answer is obviously because we didn't care enough about them to try and change things.

4 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Anonymous said...

I'm sure the climate can change, but I'm not sure about mankind influence on it. Climate variations have been in the planet always; it's known that vikings had farms in Greenland (also the name is meaningful, isn't it?).
Anyway, the fight against the climate change is fine, for ecologic reasons, that's sure.

Lucy said...

Ebola is man made?

True that climate variations have always happened samuel but they happened over tens thousands of years, this one has changed that amount in 150 years and not a coincidence the same time of the industrial revolution and we began spewing pollutants into the atmosphere on an industrial scale.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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