CLIMATE CHANGE IS SUPER CHARGING THE WEATHER SYSTEM, CREATING A PERFECT STORM OF LIFE THREATENING FLOODS IN THE NORTHEAST AND DANGEROUS SOARING TEMPERATURES IN THE SOUTHEAST....
On Sunday July 9th 2023, more than 7.5 inches of rain fell at West Point, New York, in just six hours - a 1,000 year rainfall event for the area.
As the Northeast is inundated with flooding rain, dangerous heat is threatening other parts of the world. Temperatures are soaring in the southwest this week, where Phoenix could break its record for consecutive number of days above 110 degrees.
According to Micheal Mann, a distinguished climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Climate change is stacking the decks in favor of more intense weather events like the heavy rain and flooding in the Northeast.
This is how he explains it; "The steady warming effect of climate change, combined with an EL Nino; extreme weather events related to those changing jet stream conditions, - it all comes together, if you will, in a perfect storm of consequences, which translates to truly devastating and deadly weather extremes that we're dealing with now."
He continues by saying that " El Niño, which is a warm phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is combining with climate crisis "and what you get is new record levels of heat on the planetary scale" He emphasized that "Without the climate crisis which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels, "we simply wouldn't be seeing these extreme events".
According to two climate agencies in the US and Europe that track the planets average daily temperature, climbed to record levels, and in the words of Mann, global temperatures were likely the highest they've been in at least 100,000 years.
It all comes together in a perfect storm of consequences, which translates to truly devastating and deadly weather extremes that were dealing with here right now.