Sometimes weird weather isn’t due to climate change
Is Climate Change Really That? An Empirical Study of Danielle Touma’s Los Angeles Climate During the 2000s and Beyond
Danielle Touma is a climate scientist at the University of Texas, Austin. “The climate is basically the clothes you have in your closet,” but what you pick out to wear every day tells you about the weather. Touma’s winter wardrobe in Colorado was ready for the winter time, filled with jackets and sweaters. Sometimes it was a warm day when she would dig a T-shirt from the back of a drawer.
A place’s climate can be defined as the 30-year average of its weather. So weird weather does factor in, but isn’t as important to the average as more common conditions, says Deepti Singh, a climate scientist at Washington State University. Even as climate change changes, scientists are expecting the variations in day to day weather to persist.
Earth’s temperature has risen about 1.3 degrees Celsisus since the mid-1800s, when people started burning vast amounts of fossil fuels. Pollution from that burning causes heat to build up in the atmosphere and cause problems around the world.
Singh says that the temperatures don’t seem to affect the weather in a noticeable way. But planet-scale warming is probably affecting weather basically every day, even if the impacts are subtle.
“Everything we’re experiencing, it is occurring in a different environment,” Singh says. The weather isn’t just being influenced by these changes.
Climate change has made a world without it less cold in many parts of the US and beyond. The heat extremes have gone up. The number of heat waves in the U.S. has more than tripled since the 1960s.
“We’ve kind of put the climate on steroids,” says Alex Hall, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It’s very likely that once in a while an extreme event will occur that is way out of the range of what the atmosphere was capable of before.”
In the past decade, scientists have developed techniques called “detection” and “attribution.” If humans had not burned fossil fuels, the world’s climate and weather events would be recreated using climate models. By comparing that hypothetical situation to the one that exists, they can see if human-caused climate change affected the likelihood of weather events happening—and in many cases, how big the influence was.
They could see how much more intense the rain was and how likely it was to get worse with human-caused climate change.
Everyday is a hot day for California, but what does the weather have to tell us about the climate? A comparison between clinical trials and clinical trials in medicine
Mankin compares the technique to clinical trials in medicine. “You want to evaluate the distribution of medical outcomes in a population that received the drug, the treatment group, and a control group who did not,” Mankin says. Only in this case, the drug is fossil fuel burning.
There was a lot of weather to start off the year. There were times when the winds were over 100 mph in Southern California. Major winter storms have dumped snow and cold weather on the Mid-Atlantic and the South. And in the midst of the weather news, scientists from major meteorological associations around the world reported that human-caused climate change drove 2024 to be the hottest year in human history.
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The State of the State, the Wild, and the Fire: Jack Smith Defends Donald Trump indictment, and Israel-Hamas ceasefire nears
The Department of Justice released today its election interference report against President-elect Donald Trump. The report states that Jack Smith won’t record a criminal conviction against Trump but that evidence would have been enough to convict him. Smith dropped indictments against Trump after he won the election.
A new fire broke out in Southern California last night, adding to the destruction that started last week. The wildfires have left more than 20 people dead and hundreds of thousands under evacuation orders. The physical element of this disaster is clear, but what isn’t is how it affects people’s mental health.
Negotiators in Qatar are close to a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. If agreed to, the initial phases of the agreement would have Hamas release 33 hostages still being held in Gaza in exchange for Israel’s release of a number of Palestinian detainees. There was a six week pause in fighting.
Source: Special counsel defends Trump indictment in report. And, Israel-Hamas ceasefire nears
Jimmy Carter and the Gospel of John, Paul and The Allman Brothers: From New England to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to the Singular Gospel of Jesus Christ
Jimmy Carter was not well known outside of Georgia when he ran for president. He was able to get the youth vote because of his friendship with popular musicians like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman Brothers. Carter was interested in music when he was young. His home state instilled in him a love for the gospel of Black churches and an appreciation for the power and spirituality of music.
The climate is the clothes you wear in your closet, said a climate scientist. “The climate is basically the clothes you have in your closet,” Deepti Singh, aclimate scientist at Washington State University said. ” weird weather does factor in, but isn’t as important to the average as more common conditions,” she added. “We’ve kind of put the climate on steroids,” Singh further said.