August 2023

Windsor Park Climate Conversation Bruce Melton and Justin Schoof August 23, 2023

By Bruce Melton PEClimate Catastrophes, Extreme Weather, Podcasts

Windsor Park Climate Conversation Bruce Melton and Justin Schoof August 23, 2023 – Record droughts in some area, record flooding in others. A polar vortex freezes Texas, then an atmospheric river replaces the waters of California overnight. All of these forces are at play in our daily weather patters and science is trying very hard to…

August 23, 2023

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How Much Hotter Is It Because of Climate Change?

By Bruce Melton PEDrought, Extreme Weather, Heat, Impacts, Temperature

Image: Crayons on a driveway of a friend, 103 degrees. Note how the white crayons hardy melted. How Much Hotter Is It Because of Climate Change? One of the things I tell folks these days about the heat is that the absolute temperature in Austin is not really that much warmer than in the past….

August 11, 2023

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

Windsor Park Climate Conversation Bruce Melton and Justin Schoof August 23, 2023

How Much Hotter Is It Because of Climate Change?

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