Turn Down the Heat

World Bank on Climate: "Turn Down the Heat" – Is It Really This Bad? by Bruce Melton

By Bruce Melton PEImpacts, Truthout.org

Published on Truthout.org January 11, 2013: As incredible as it sounds, the effects of climate change are worse than the World Bank Report says in its latest report: “Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 degree C world Must be Avoided,” a summary of the latest findings in climate science. Much of this work is…

April 3, 2013

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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.

World Bank on Climate: "Turn Down the Heat" – Is It Really This Bad? by Bruce Melton

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