Each summer, fresh images of extensive damage done to forests and homes by wildfire ignites media panic and speculation about the role of climate change in these apocalyptic scenes. But areas from which these images are produced, such as California and Australia, are typically places that have always been prone to significant wildfire. Moreover, it… Read More »Wildfires
Drought is a consequence of global warming that drives many fears about the future. But like heatwaves, the definition and detection of a drought is not as straightforward as meteorological phenomena such as rain or wind, and are instead defined by deviation from a norm or average. Some places are naturally much drier than others,… Read More »Drought
Glaciers and ice sheets (rather than sea ice as such) melting is one of the major concerns about global warming and its consequences. Whereas Arctic sea ice cannot contribute to sea level rise, water locked up in the world’s glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica contain enough water to raise sea levels by… Read More »Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Heatwaves are the most intuitive consequence of global warming. But when discussing heatwaves, it is important to distinguish the meteorological data from data relating to impacts. As is shown in other sections, data relating to the social and economic consequences of extreme weather do not show society becoming more vulnerable to extreme temperatures, whether or… Read More »Heatwaves
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According to meteorology, warmer air is capable of holding more moisture, therefore global warming will likely cause a more saturated atmosphere to make more water available to weather fronts, increasing the volume of precipitation (rain). This proposition is uncontroversial, leading to little debate, perhaps because its consequences are not clearly significant. For example, a 2022… Read More »Precipitation
For many years, each northern hemisphere summer has brought fresh concern about the survival of the Arctic ice sheet. Chiefly for its supposed role as habitat for the polar bear, the ‘green’ view holds that the disappearance of summer sea ice would at least symbolically represent a radical transformation – degradation – of the natural… Read More »Sea Ice