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What climate change-caused -tastrophe will be next month?

By Bruce Melton PEExtreme Weather, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts

The smoketastrophe in New York City. Image Wikicommons What climate change-caused -tastrophe will be next month? This month’s climate change-caused disaster was the smoketastrophe on the upper east coast. If you have been living under a rock (lucky you), smoke from unprecedented climate change-caused Canadian wildfires was sucked up into a low pressure system that…

June 8, 2023

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New Pine Beetle Outbreak in Alberta, Canada is Worst-Case Scenario

By Bruce Melton PEForest Mortality

It was hoped that the last several years of wet and cold in the Rockies would put a damper on the great pine beetle infestation ongoing. In 2008, the infestation increased 18 million acres. The last record breaking pine beetle infestation in North America was three million acres in ten years. This event ended about…

November 16, 2009

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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.

What climate change-caused -tastrophe will be next month?

New Pine Beetle Outbreak in Alberta, Canada is Worst-Case Scenario

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