This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Has Climate Change Been Ratcheted Up?
El Nino has added predictable oomph to climate change. The North Atlantic's average June temperature is now the highest on record for the time of year. There's also 2.5m km2 less sea ice around Antarctica, than the average figure (so, much less solar radiation will be reflected into space). Extreme weather events are, consequently, now much more probable. There's likely to be serious, widespread environmental damage (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/03/a-perfect-storm-scientists-ponder-if-climate-has-entered-a-new-erratic-era). A scientist working on this topic, has opined that climate change is now proceeding 'at a terrifying rate'. Perhaps the rate of change will not decline, when El Nino fades? The planet may already have been pushed into a 'tipping point', where effects are impossible to reverse.
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