Reposted from Earthward, https://fromknowledgetopower.com/electricity-grid/ 13 JULY 2023Thanks for reading Earthward! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Another spate of extreme weather has hit the US. This time we have a triple whammy consisting of last month's smokeouts from Canadian wildfires (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest), torrential rain and flooding in Vermont and upstate New York, and a record-breaking heat wave that continues to impact the South and Southwest. Since warmer air holds more water, global warming intensifies the hydrological cycle and this amplifies both wet and dry extremes - generating the more intense rainfall and excessively parched conditions that lead to floods and wildfires, respectively. In the South/Southwest heat wave, the higher temperatures driven by greenhouse gas buildup may be further amplified by the start of the El Niño climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean, a periodic event that typically drives a substantial increase in global temperature.
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Reposted from Earthward, https://fromknowledgetopower.com/electricity-grid/ 13 JULY 2023Thanks for reading Earthward! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Another spate of extreme weather has hit the US. This time we have a triple whammy consisting of last month's smokeouts from Canadian wildfires (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest), torrential rain and flooding in Vermont and upstate New York, and a record-breaking heat wave that continues to impact the South and Southwest. Since warmer air holds more water, global warming intensifies the hydrological cycle and this amplifies both wet and dry extremes - generating the more intense rainfall and excessively parched conditions that lead to floods and wildfires, respectively. In the South/Southwest heat wave, the higher temperatures driven by greenhouse gas buildup may be further amplified by the start of the El Niño climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean, a periodic event that typically drives a substantial increase in global temperature.