For context, the planet has warmed ~2*F since ~1850. While global warming is surly a thing I certainly wouldn't rank it on a top 10 list of reasons diseases and microbes are created.
2F globally does not mean a uniform distribution of warming. Land warming closer to 4F. But Reno is up over 7 degrees. Alaska over 4f. It’s not great!
The primary threat is expansion of existing diseases. I wouldn't discount the temperature change so readily, one of the mechanisms was increased precipitation (as they noted in the case of Valley Fever, driven by the 'grow and blow' effect of wet and dry whiplash).
There's a difference between weather and climate. Weather is something that happens and has great variability, climate is an expected weather pattern. Measuring the average temperature change from 2023->2024 or similar would be weather, looking at the temperature over ~100+ years would be more akin to climate. There are plenty of years where it's colder than the previous year, and many where it's markably warmer. Famously the continental US experienced no warming, possibly some cooling from 2000 to 2012, not because we solved global warming but because of random variations in the data.
But broadly speaking, yoy change isn't representative of climate, and any time a politician tells you this is the last election to stop climate change you can ignore him. Even fast pace warming takes decades
For context, the planet has warmed ~2*F since ~1850. While global warming is surly a thing I certainly wouldn't rank it on a top 10 list of reasons diseases and microbes are created.
2F globally does not mean a uniform distribution of warming. Land warming closer to 4F. But Reno is up over 7 degrees. Alaska over 4f. It’s not great!
The primary threat is expansion of existing diseases. I wouldn't discount the temperature change so readily, one of the mechanisms was increased precipitation (as they noted in the case of Valley Fever, driven by the 'grow and blow' effect of wet and dry whiplash).
It's just another thing tossed on the pile. It's not the worst thing, but it doesn't have to be for it to be interesting and relevant.
Huh. The rise has been closer to +3F since 2023, not 2F, and it's getting worse on average.
There's a difference between weather and climate. Weather is something that happens and has great variability, climate is an expected weather pattern. Measuring the average temperature change from 2023->2024 or similar would be weather, looking at the temperature over ~100+ years would be more akin to climate. There are plenty of years where it's colder than the previous year, and many where it's markably warmer. Famously the continental US experienced no warming, possibly some cooling from 2000 to 2012, not because we solved global warming but because of random variations in the data.
But broadly speaking, yoy change isn't representative of climate, and any time a politician tells you this is the last election to stop climate change you can ignore him. Even fast pace warming takes decades
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