With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a...
Records are crucial for people designing infrastructure and working in agriculture because they need to plan for the worst scenarios, said Russell Vose, climate analysis group director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also chairs a committee on national records.In the past 30 days, nearly 5,000 heat and rainfall records have been broken or tied in the U.S. and more than 10,000 records set globally, according to NOAA.
The scientific community “doesn’t really have the vocabulary to communicate what it feels like,” said Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, who co-chaired a groundbreaking United Nations report in 2012 warning of the dangers of extreme weather from climate change.“I don’t think it captures the human sense, but it really does underscore that we live in a different world,” Field said of the records.
El Niño is a natural temporary warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide and adds an extra warm boost. An El Niño formed in June and scientists say this one looks strong. For the previous three years El Niño’s cool flip side, La Niña, dampened a bit of the heat humans are causing.
“I think we need to get away from that sort of record-setting sensationalism at some level and really be getting down to the hard work,” he said, addressing the need for people to adapt to a warmer world and get serious about slashing emissions causing hotter, more extreme weather.
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