As the summer of 2012 brings a range of damaging extreme weather events, television news networks are giving more attention to the connection to a changing climate. In recent weeks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS have all featured segments connecting the dots between a warming planet and extreme weather.
This morning, MSNBC featured an interview with Heidi Cullen, the chief climatologist with Climate Central, who talked about this summer’s heat and drought in a climate context.
“Here in the U.S., it definitely means more extremes. And we’re talking about heat extremes, drought extremes, and wildfire extremes. So in a sense, the summer of 2012 is a really nice picture, if you will, of what we can expect more of,” said Cullen.
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Wonder what would be the outcome to all these mega fires world wide if there weren’t human intervention… Perhapse some form of climate feedback ?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/greece-wildfires_n_1682136.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
I love Heidi – it’s so important to get the right front-person and a having such a charming, concerned, articulate and feminine personality (shades of Sarah Michelle Gellar?)on your side – well it’s just perfect.
Grouchy, pushy and wrinkly male denialists just don’t stand a chance. Heidi for President 2016!
P Baker, I really like Heidi too, and met her once at an SEJ conference. She is one of our best communicators, and I would vote for her for president, too.
Fires such as we’re seeing now were not predicted at the current .75 C warming. That means that 2C, which most of us will see in our lifetimes, could cause far more damage than anyone expects. Policymakers need to consider that fact. Yeah, I know, good luck with that.
At 10 a.m Eastern guests on the NPR Diane Rehm show also spoke of drought and global warming, along with the coming price impacts and farm insurance costs.
USDA forcast a bumper crop…commodity prices drop. Now Corn is at the upper limit. Someone made a bundle of cash on this drought.