Global squirming
Feb. 8th, 2008 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melcharFor the love of Dog people - what does it take to get through to the masses that 'global warming' doesn't mean 90 degrees in wintertime, but that weather systems become more active?
Rainfall patterns change, you'll have tornadoes in January and storms will become more violent as it gets warmer, with worse flooding in low-lying regions. Surely THIS can be communicated in a sound bite.
Rainfall patterns change, you'll have tornadoes in January and storms will become more violent as it gets warmer, with worse flooding in low-lying regions. Surely THIS can be communicated in a sound bite.
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Date: 2008-02-08 10:41 pm (UTC)Global warming means, *on average* the globe is warmer. One of the potential side effects (it's unclear if this is actually the most likely scenario or not, though) is that the some of the areas of colder climate actually get *colder,* but that their drop in temperature is less than the increase in tropical areas.
Basically, it could come to be that midwest winters actually get MORE severe, but don't worry, so do the summers!